Orem Library

The author reflects on his many losses and accomplishments and on all that remains to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.

In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the State of Israel, and as a spokesman for humanity.

Presents Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel's account of his experiences as a young boy with his father in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and features two novels, including "Dawn" in which a young man, living in Palestine after World War II as a member of a Jewish underground movement, has misgivings when ordered to execute a British hostage, and "Day," in which a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor, involved in an automobile accident, questions...