Elie Wiesel
1) Night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
2) Hostage
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From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in todays troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Its 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg-professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband-has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in Brooklyn, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, dont explain why the innocent...
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[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
4) Dawn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
5) The accident
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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A young journalist steps off a curb and into the path of a taxicab. Gravely injured and unable to choose between life and death, Eliezer relives the horrors of Auschwitz, his tragic childhood, and a passionate affair.
6) Day
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Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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First published in English under the title The Accident, Elie Wiesel's third novel in his trilogy of Holocaust literature has now adopted Wiesel's original title: Day. In the opening scene, a Holocaust survivor and successful journalist steps off a curb in New York City directly into the pathway of an oncoming cab. As he struggles between life and death, the journalist recalls the effects of the historical tragedy of the Holocaust on himself and his...
12) Open heart
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In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
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[2002]
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Elie Wiesel chronicles the events of the Holocaust from the rise of Hitler to the liberation, presenting photos from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and including commentary by a child of a survivor on the importance of bearing witness into the twenty-first century.
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[2001]
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"Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life's timeless questions." "In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner - American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor - Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often perilous political and spiritual ground, expounding...
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2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide. Aged ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto of Kielce and two labour camps, and was soon separated...
19) El olvidado
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Pub. Date
c1992
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Afectado por una enfermedad incurable, Elhanan Rosenbaum ve cómo poco a poco se le borra la memoria. Muy pronto no será nada más que un olvidado, un hombre sin raíces, desposeído de su propia historia: su infancia rumana, la guerra, el amor de Talia, el descubrimiento de Palestina, los combates en Jerusalén en 1948
En el relato que inicia para legar su memoria a Malkiel, su hijo, se mezcla la investigación de este en la población rumana...