Elie Wiesel a Nobel Peace winner, author, and Holocaust survivor died on Saturday.
The book is based on his experiences in Nazi concentration camps.
He then lost his father after the two were transferred to Buchenwald.
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Originally written in Yiddish,Nightwas published in French in 1958 and then in English in 1960.
In 1986, Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism.
I know your choice transcends me.
This both frightens and pleases me, he said duringhis acceptance speech.
It frightens me because I wonder: do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished?
Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf?
That would be presumptuous.
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
As he remarked elsewhere in his Nobel acceptance speech, We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
