Night

Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his
Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German
concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in
1944–1945 toward the end of the Second World War in
Europe. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented
narrative Wiesel writes about his loss of faith and
increasing disgust with humanity recounting his
experiences from the Nazi-established ghettos in his
hometown of Sighet Romania to his migration through
multiple concentration camps. The typical parent–child
relationship is inverted as his father dwindled in the
camps to a helpless state while Wiesel himself became his
teenaged caregiver.[2] His father died in January 1945
taken to the crematory after deteriorating from dysentery
and a beating while Wiesel lay silently on the bunk above
him for fear of being beaten too. The memoir ends shortly
after the United States Army liberated Buchenwald in April
1945.