Night

**Author**: Elie Wiesel **Published**: 1955 (Yiddish), 1958 (French), 1960 (English)

**Setting**: World War II, Hungary, 1943-1945 (Sighet, Transylvania; boxcar trains; Birkenau; Auschwitz; Buna; Gleiwitz; Buchenwald)

**Key Literary Elements**: Setting, Characterization, Conflict, Symbolism

**Themes**: The Importance of Remembering, Man's Humanity to Man, The Existence/Nature of Evil, Silence

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