Further Reading

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If you would like to learn more about Night, Elie Wiesel or the historical context of the novel, the Chicago Public Library recommends the following list of web and print resources:

Web Resources

Web Resources Related to Elie Wiesel and Night

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
This is the website for the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. The Foundation’s mission, rooted in the memory of the Holocaust, is to advance the cause of human rights by creating forums for the discussion and resolution of urgent ethical issues.

Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize for Peace—American Academy of Achievement
This website includes a profile, biography and interview of Elie Wiesel. It is a part of the Gallery of Achievers, which is a section that focuses on individuals who have shaped our times by their accomplishments.

Elie Wiesel Speech “The Perils of Indifference”
Part of the History Place website’s “Great Speeches Collection,” Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gave this impassioned speech in the East Room of the White House on April 12, 1999, as part of the ongoing Millennium Lecture series, hosted by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Oprah Talks to Elie Wiesel
On this webpage, you will find an excerpt of Oprah’s conversation with Elie Wiesel. If you have Flash Player, you can also listen and watch the interview.

Facing History and Ourselves
The organization Facing History and Ourselves has produced a study guide for Night that can be used to teach lessons of identity, membership in society and the legacies of history and prejudice. The study guide is available as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file. From the home page, click on “Resources,” then on “Study Guides.” For Chicago information, click on “Regions.”

Teacher CyberGuide—Night by Elie Wiesel
By Barbara Jania-Smith and Mary Jewell
1997
This supplemental unit to Night was developed by teachers in the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) Project and provides resources for students in the 10th grade to focus on the historical, political and social aspects of the Holocaust in order to become better acquainted with the background for the scenario of human suffering and degradation portrayed in Night.

Websites Related to the Holocaust and Genocide

Genocide
About.com

Holocaust Chronicle

Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings
Compiled by Stuart Stein
Web Genocide Documentation Centre

Prevent Genocide International
A part of Genocide Watch

A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
Florida Center for Instructional Technology
1997

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Fiction by Elie Wiesel

Dawn
Translation by Frances Frenaye
Hill & Wang, 1961

The Accident
Translation by Anne Borchardt
Hill & Wang, 1962

The Town Beyond the Wall
Translation by Stephen Becker
Atheneum, 1964

The Gates of the Forest
Translation by Frances Frenaye
Holt, 1966

Legends of Our Time
Holt, 1968

A Beggar in Jerusalem
Translation by the author and L. Edelman
Random House, 1970

The Oath
Translation by Marion Wiesel
Random House, 1973

The Testament
Translation by Marion Wiesel
Simon & Schuster, 1981

The Golem: The Story of a Legend
Illustrated by Mark Podwal
Summit Books, 1983

The Fifth Son
Translation by M. Wiesel
Summit Books, 1985

Twilight
Translation by Marion Wiesel
Summit Books, 1988

The Forgotten
Translated by Stephen Becker
Summit, 1992

Nonfiction by Elie Wiesel

A Jew Today
Translation by Marion Wiesel
Random House, 1978

Evil and Exile with Philippe-Michael De Saint-Cheron
Translation by Jon Rothschild
University of Notre Dame Press, 1990

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
Knopf, 1995

Memoir in Two Voices
With Francois Mitterrand
Arcade, 1996

From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
Summit Books, 1990

And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969—
Translated by Marion Wiesel
Alfred Knopf (New York), 1999

Conversations with Elie Wiesel
With Richard D. Heffner and Thomas J. Vinciguerra, editor
Schocken Books, 2001

Books for Teens Who Would Like to Read More About the Holocaust

After the Holocaust
By Howard Greenfeld
Greenwillow, 2001
These eight personal stories clearly show that the tragedies and sorrows of the Holocaust didn’t end just because the Allied soldiers opened the gates of the camps.

Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust
Edited by Hazel Rochman
Fiction
Orchard Books, 1995
Twenty-four well-known authors share their vision of the horrors of the Holocaust in short stories, a comic strip, a script, poetry and a variety of other formats.

Elie Wiesel: Voice from the Holocaust
Enslow, 1994
By Michael A. Schuman
As a small child in Hungary, this future Nobel Laureate had no idea he would be fighting for his life in one of the most feared and hated Nazi concentration camps.

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
By Livia Bitton-Jackson
Simon & Schuster, 1997 (hardcover)
Aladdin, 1999 (paperback)
Sent to a death camp at age 13, Livia describes her experience as a teenager.

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
By Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong
Knopf, 1999 (hardcover)
Anchor Books, 2001 (paperback)
Even though she wasn’t a Jew, Irene suffered at the hands of the Nazis but schemed to find ways to save herself and help others escape as well.

Mara’s Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness
By Gary D. Schmidt
Fiction
Henry Holt, 2001
At night, in cold and damp barracks, Mara tells folktales to illuminate the darkness.

Maus, A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
By Art Spiegelman
Random House, 1986
Told as graphic novels, with animals wearing the uniforms and doing the unimaginable deeds, this is a powerful story of a Holocaust survivor.

Maus, A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
By Art Spiegelman
Pantheon Books, 1991 (hardcover)
Pantheon Books 1992 (paperback)
The story continued.

Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
By Milton Meltzer
HarperCollins, 1976 (hardcover)
HarperCollins, 1991 (paperback)
These voices, only a few of them since 6 million people were killed, describe survival and resistance movements in the face of genocide.

Number the Stars
By Lois Lowry
Fiction
Houghton Mifflin, 1989 (hardcover)
Laureleaf, 1998 (paperback)
Recorded Books, 2000 (audiocassette)
In a fictionalized account of a true story, 10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen and her family help her best friend Ellen by first hiding her and then helping her escape over the Danish border to safety.

A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust
By Allison Leslie Gold
Scholastic Trade, 2000
An account of a Japanese diplomat serving in Lithuania, who continued to issue exit visas to Jewish refugees long after his government told him to stop.

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
By Andrea Warren
Fiction
HarperCollins, 2001 (hardcover)
HarperCollins, 2001 (paperback)
Ten-year-old Jack Mandelbaum sees his family torn from their home and separated by strangers, and is forced into a horrifying experience that he survives by treating it as a very dangerous game.