Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Wiesel wrote hauntingly of his experience. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed,” Mr. The memoir eventually became an acclaimed bestseller, translated into many languages, and is considered a seminal work on the terrors of the Holocaust.

The book was shortened and published in France as La Nuit, and as Night for English readers in 1960.

His friend and colleague François Mauriac, a French Nobel Laureate for Literature, encouraged him to write about his experiences in the camps Wiesel would publish in Yiddish the memoir And the World Would Remain Silent in 1956. Wiesel went on to study at the Sorbonne in France from 1948-51 and took up journalism, writing for French and Israeli publications.

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