Here He is — He is hanging here on this gallows..." That night the soup tasted of corpses. [12] Elie Wiesel is a witness, a teller of tales, and a writer, in that order. Each of these roles is ...

Best known as the author of “Night,” Wiesel wrote more than 50 books of fiction and nonfiction — and not all were focused on his harrowing experiences in concentration camps. Most people ...

1944 – The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15. January 1945 ... Nazi concentration camps. 1960 – “Night,” the English translation of “La ...