Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

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This book is a piece of historical evidence concerning the events today describes as Holocaust. World War 2 started in 1939,the Nazi began ordering Jews to wear a yellow star on their clothing so the Jews could be easily targeted .Began in 1932 and ended in 1945.It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 6 million of these were Jews.1.1 million children were murdered. Elie Wiesel’s famous book Night was first published in French in 1958 and in an English translation in 1960.He published his memoir after a 10 year vow of silence only at the urging of Francois Mauriac, whose account of his meeting with the young survivor appears as a foreword to Night’s French and English versions. He dedicated Night to the memory