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Books Like Night
Best books to read after Night by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel's Night is the essential Holocaust memoir — 120 pages, a teenager's account of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. These recommendations explore the Holocaust memoir and fiction tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the first-hand testimony that insists the world remember what was done.
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Dawn
by Elie Wiesel
The companion Wiesel novel — Elisha, a Holocaust survivor turned Jewish underground fighter in British Mandatory Palestine, waiting to execute an English officer at dawn; the direct continuation for Wiesel readers.
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
The companion psychiatrist's Holocaust testimony — Frankl's account of his time in Auschwitz and three other camps and the logotherapy philosophy he developed from the experience; the other essential short book about what it means to survive Auschwitz with one's humanity intact.
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The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
The essential companion Holocaust document — the diary Anne Frank kept while hiding in Amsterdam before her deportation to Bergen-Belsen; the voice of someone who did not survive, alongside Wiesel's voice of someone who did.
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Maus
by Art Spiegelman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir companion — Spiegelman's father's story of surviving Auschwitz, told with Jews as mice and Nazis as cats; the most formally inventive major Holocaust memoir and the companion that reaches readers who might not otherwise read Holocaust testimony.
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Survival in Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
The Italian chemist's Auschwitz testimony — Levi's calm, precise, devastating account of his time in the camp, published as Se questo è un uomo (If This Is a Man) in Italy in 1947; the complement to Night in that Levi's analytical distance and Wiesel's emotional directness are the two poles of how survivors have written about Auschwitz.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
The fictional companion — the true story of Lale Sokolov tattooing prisoner numbers at the same Auschwitz that Wiesel describes in Night; the novel for readers who want to continue in the world of Night through a different kind of narrative.
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Suite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky
The literary French companion — Némirovsky's posthumous novel of the occupation, and the most direct reminder that Night is not only a Holocaust testimony but also a record of what happened to European Jewish cultural life that was represented by writers like Némirovsky herself.
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Mila 18
by Leon Uris
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising companion novel — the fictional account of the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, Uris's most ambitious novel and the narrative fiction companion to Night for readers who want to see what organized resistance looked like inside the same system.
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