ABSTRACT
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was a Romanian-born Jew who survived the Holocaust. He documented his personal experiences between the period 1941–1945 in the literary memoir, Night. For this and his numerous other writings and activities, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. This chapter, surely one of the most moving and powerful, carefully reads Wiesel’s story of survival as textured with layers of different ways a person can be said to survive. For, as Wiesel slowly reveals, it is possible that a person may simply survive, i.e. live through the ordeal, but have died spiritually. The real challenge of survival is to survive both physically and spiritually intact.
