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ELIE WIESEL
Elie Wiesel  first wrote his novel //And the World Remained Silent// in 1958, just over ten years after the Holocaust. In his preface, he discusses the reasons he decided to write the memoir //Night// even though it meant that he had to relive his painful past. He wrote it because he wanted to give meaning to his survival, that he knew he must bear witness to the deaths of others, and finally because he could not keep silent. He wanted to write it for the children and innocent people; he did not want “his past to become their future” (Wiesel xv). He seemed most worried that he would not be able to tell the story and use the words that people who had not been there would understand. He wrote the new translation, //Night//, because he was a young, inexperienced writer when he wrote //And the World Remained Silent//, and he wanted this one to be written in his voice, one with more experience. He feels that books have a destiny, like people. And he hopes that the destiny of this book will be that the horrors and terrors of the Holocaust will never be repeated.

Cattle Cars  Old and Wooden  Churning, Creaking, Moaning  like the cries of an animal in pain and as hot as an oven  a sealed casket of the dead  rolling  along tracks of steel

//The spring sunshine// //A beautiful April day// //Lulled by the sunshine, lulled by my dreams// //In the sky a few white clouds// //In the morning, black coffee//

// Little gardens here and there // // Right out in the country // // Muster your strength, keep the faith // // On the sunny road // // At noon, soup // // Work makes you free // // Shivering in the darkness // // My sister’s fair hair, turned to ashes // // Warning, Danger of Death // // Our lives, NIGHT. //

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