Night by Elie Weisel

R.W.- Hero of a Nation: Wallenberg went to any extent to save a life, “he personally saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews and became a legendary figure.”- Holocaust Rescuers At the end of the war Wallenberg had made such an impact on Hungary that “Budapest had the only Jewish community of substantial size left in all of Europe.”- Holocaust Rescuers R.W.- OTHERS BEFORE SELF: Wallenberg …

…planned to exterminate all European Jews.”- People of the Holocaust Critical Overview: Jane Doughtery said that “Night” is a “slightly fictionalized account of Wiesel’s experiences as a concentration camp survivor. Lea Hamaoui states that “Night proceeds from experience that is not universal” making the book all the more powerful. Karl Plank expresses his thoughts of Night in saying “that world of the victim has found literary testament in the writings of Elie Wiesel.”