The Night Trilogy

By Elie Wiesel

Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature.  First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz.  In Dawn (1960), a young man who has survived World War II and settled in Palestine joins a Jewish underground movement and is commanded to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage.  In Day, Wiesel questions the limits of conscience: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life despite their memories?