Elie Wiesel
Books by Elie Wiesel
“Probably the best known memoir that has been written about the experience of the death camps.” Read more...
The best books on The Holocaust
Steven Katz, Historian
Night
by Elie Wiesel & Marion Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was a young boy of 14 when his tiny city, a place called Sighet, mostly Jewish, in what was then the Romania-Hungary borderland, was overrun. They came into his little town and they took him and his family. He went to Auschwitz, where his father died. But he survived the war, miraculously. Then, in the 1950s, he wrote a memoir in Yiddish.
Interviews where books by Elie Wiesel were recommended
The best books on The Holocaust, recommended by Steven Katz
In the years immediately after World War II, the Holocaust was little studied. That all changed with the publication of Raul Hilberg’s book, The Destruction of the European Jews. Steven Katz, professor of Jewish Holocaust Studies at Boston University and former Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, introduces the best Holocaust books.
Books About Suicide, recommended by Johanna Reiss
As a young Dutch Jewish girl, Johanna Reiss survived World War II hidden in the attic of a farmer called Johan Oosterveld. Her memoir of that time, The Upstairs Room, is still read in schools today. But while she was researching that book in 1969, her American husband, Jim, killed himself. In this interview, she recommends books on the painful subject of suicide, as well as the music that helped heal the pain.
