Elisha Wiesel
1) Night
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death"--
"A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power. When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him 'the conscience...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
viii, 48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II, this heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song is accompanied by magnificent full-color paintings by award-winning artist Mark Podwal. It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto's leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hung to "avenge" the deaths of the ten sons of Haman, the villain of the Purim...