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English teachers have been assigning Elie Wiesel’s memoir of the Holocaust for 30 years — here’s why

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Author, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, died Saturday, at 87.

Wiesel’s most famous work, “Night,” is a an autobiographical account of his time spent in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1944 to 1945.

Over the past 30 years, it’s become a mainstay of required reading lists in high school English classes across the nation.

“At this point in time, I would say “Night” is practically ubiquitous,” Carol Jago, distinguished English teacher and former president of the National Council of Teachers of English, told Business Insider.

“I’ve seen a lot of high school reading lists and mostly in read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com