a corpse in the mirror

 

 

Book review:

Night

 

by Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)

Buchenwald survivor

Stella Rodway, trans.

 

New York: Bantam Books, 1958

109 pages

 

In Night, Elie Wiesel tells his story of being a teenage boy in the death camps of Nazi Germany during World War II.

He uses the necessary words, and he speaks from the depths of his being.

He lost his mother, his father, and his young sister in the camps.

He was liberated from Buchenwald by American soldiers on April 11, 1945.

Wiesel recalls that after he was freed, he saw his reflection in a mirror for the first time since he was transported:

 

“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.”

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