"Night" is a novel that was written by author, journalist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and it was published in 1960. It is part of a trilogy, Night, Dawn and Day, and it relates the experiences lived by the author during his younger years as inmate in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps during Nazi Germany, the latter being the last place where Wiesel spends his time with his also inmate father until their liberation by the United States in 1945. One theme that is clearly shown in "Night", is that of the darkness and loss of identity that is generated by the stressful situations faced by the Jews in these concentration camps, especially, by the main character of the novel. At one point, Eliezer, the teenger who narrates the story, feels that he has lost all his identity and that he even finds himself hating his father and believing that he is more of a burden and a danger than company, or the presence of a loved one. When Eliezer says: "that was what life in a concentration camp had made of me", he is refering precisely to this; the way he no longer sees himself as a person, but rather a number or a commodity, and he adapts to it, and he starts hating his father and wishing him gone.
