Night

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Night is Elie Wiesel’s harrowing autobiographical account of his experiences as a Jewish teenager in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Night canonical 18
"Night" 1
La Nuit 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust literature
autobiographical book
memoir
adaptationOf Un di velt hot geshvign
adaptedFromLanguage Yiddish
author Elie Wiesel
countryOfOrigin France
EnglishEditionPublicationYear 1960
EnglishEditionTitle Night self-link
EnglishPublisher Hill and Wang
firstPublicationLanguage Yiddish
firstPublicationPlace Buenos Aires
firstPublicationYear 1956
firstPublisher Tsentral farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine
FrenchEditionPublicationYear 1958
FrenchEditionTitle Night self-linksurface differs
surface form: La Nuit
FrenchTranslator François Mauriac
genre Holocaust memoir
autobiography
nonfiction
hasSequel Dawn
Day
language English
literaryMovement Holocaust testimony
mainCharacter Eliezer
mainSubject AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: Auschwitz concentration camp

Buchenwald
surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Holocaust
Nazi camp system
surface form: Nazi concentration camps

antisemitism
faith
father–son relationship
genocide
survival
notableFor depiction of loss of faith
first-person account of Nazi concentration camps
influence on Holocaust education
originalLanguage French
Yiddish
partOfTrilogy Night–Dawn–Day trilogy
protagonistBasedOn Elie Wiesel
settingLocation AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: Auschwitz

Buchenwald
Buna
Sighetu Marmației
surface form: Sighet
settingPeriod Holocaust
World War II

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Elie Wiesel notableWork Night
Night FrenchEditionTitle Night self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: La Nuit
Night EnglishEditionTitle Night self-link
Day followsInTrilogy Night
Day relatedWork Night
Dawn relatedWork Night
Eliezer notableWork Night
subject surface form: Eliezer Wiesel
Born to Run hasPart Night
Unbreakable hasTrack Night
Buna mentionedIn Night
this entity surface form: "Night"