ELIEZER "ELIE" WIESEL (1928-2016) was a Romanian-born Jewish-American author, professor, political activist, and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. As an Auschwitz survivor, he became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world's conscience.
In the aftermath of the Germans' systematic massacre of Jews, no voice had emerged to drive home the enormity of what had happened and how it had changed mankind's conception of itself and of God. Wiesel's work filled that void, and it was this speaking out against forgetfulness and violence that the Nobel committee recognized when he received the Peace Prize in 1986: "Wiesel is a messenger to mankind," the citation said. "His message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity. His belief that the forces fighting evil in the world can be victorious is a hard-won belief."
Wiesel first gained attention in 1960 with the English translation of NIGHT, an autobiographical account of the horrors he witnessed as a teenage boy in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. He went on to write novels, books of essays and reportage, two plays and even two cantatas. While many of his books were nominally about topics like Soviet Jews or Hasidic masters, they all dealt with profound questions resonating out of the Holocaust: What is the sense of living in a universe that tolerates unimaginable cruelty? How could the world have been mute? How can one go on believing? Wiesel asked the questions in spare prose and without raising his voice; he rarely offered answers.
The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise indicated:
== FICTION ==
* Dawn [Night Trilogy II] (Hill & Wang, 2006). Translated by Frances Frenaye.
* Day [Night Trilogy III] (Hill & Wang, 2006). Translated by Anne Borchardt.
* Fifth Son, The (Summit, 1985). Translated by Marion Wiesel. -- PDF
* Forgotten, The (Schocken, 1995). Translated by Stephen Becker.
* Gates of the Forest, The (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1966). Translated by Frances Frenaye. -- PDF
* Hostage (Knopf, 2012). Translated by Catherine Temerson.
* Mad Desire to Dance, A (Knopf, 2009). Translated by Catherine Temerson.
* Oath, The (Schocken, 1986). Translated by Marion Wiesel.
* The Sonderberg Case (Knopf, 2010). Translated by Catherine Temerson.
* Testament, The (Schocken, 2011). Translated by Marion Wiesel.
* Time of the Uprooted, The (Schocken, 2005). Translated by David Hapgood.
* Town Beyond the Wall, The (Atheneum, 1964). Translated by Stephen Becker. -- PDF
* Twilight (Summit, 1988). Translated by Marion Wiesel. -- PDF
== MEMOIRS ==
* All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Volume 1, 1928-1969 (Knopf, 1995). Translated by Marion Wiesel.
* And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, Volume 2, 1969- (Knopf, 1999). Translated by Marion Wiesel.
* From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences (Summit, 1990).
* Night [Night Trilogy I] (Bantam, 1986). Translated by Stella Rodway, with a Foreword by Francois Mauriac. -- PDF
* Night [Night Trilogy I] (Hill & Wang, 2006). Translated by Marion Wiesel, with a new Preface by the author.
* Open Heart (Knopf, 2012). Translated by Marion Wiesel.
== OTHER NON-FICTION ==
* Conversations with Elie Wiesel [with Richard D. Heffner] (Schocken, 2001). Edited by Thomas J. Vinciguerra. -- PDF
* Evil and Exile [with Philippe-Michael de Saint-Cheron] (Notre Dame UP, 1990). Translated by Jon Rothschild. -- PDF
* Jew Today, A (Vintage, 1979). Translated by Marion Wiesel. -- PDF
* Jews of Silence, The: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry (Schocken, 2011). Translated by Neal Kozodoy.
* Journey of Faith: A Dialogue Between Elie Wiesel and John Cardinal O'Connor (Fine, 1990). Foreword by Gabe Pressman. -- PDF
* Legends of Our Time (Schocken, 1982).
* One Generation After (Schocken, 2011). Translated by Lily Edelman and the author, with a new Introduction by the author.
* Rashi: A Portrait (Schocken, 2009). Translated by Catherine Temerson.
* Sages and Dreamers: Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Portraits and Legends (Summit, 1991).
* Six Days of Destruction: Meditations Towards Hope [with Albert H. Friedlander] (Pergamon, 1988). -- PDF
* Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (Vintage, 1973). Translated by Marion Wiesel. -- PDF
