Night

E25890

Holocaust literature autobiographical book memoir

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

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 →
EnglishPublisher	Hill and Wang →
firstPublicationLanguage	Yiddish →
firstPublicationPlace	Buenos Aires →
firstPublicationYear	1956 →
firstPublisher	Tsentral farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine →
FrenchEditionPublicationYear	1958 →
FrenchEditionTitle	La Nuit →
FrenchTranslator	François Mauriac →
genre	Holocaust memoir → autobiography → nonfiction →
hasSequel	Dawn → Day →
language	English →
literaryMovement	Holocaust testimony →
mainCharacter	Eliezer →
mainSubject	Auschwitz concentration camp → Buchenwald concentration camp → Holocaust → 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	Auschwitz → Buchenwald → Buna → Sighet →
settingPeriod	Holocaust → World War II →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Dawn → Day → The Jews of Silence →	relatedWork
Elie Wiesel → Eliezer Wiesel →	notableWork
Night →	EnglishEditionTitle
Day →	followsInTrilogy
Night ("La Nuit") →	FrenchEditionTitle
Born to Run →	hasPart
Unbreakable →	hasTrack
Oprah's Book Club →	notableSelection
The Trial of God →	relatedWorkOfAuthor
Marion Wiesel →	translatedWork