A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power will be published on September 12, 2017.
According to Night’s publisher Hill & Wang, “when Elie Wiesel died in July, 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him ‘the conscience of the world.’ The whole of the president’s eloquent tribute will appear as a foreword to this memorial edition of Night. ‘Like millions of admirers, I first came to know Elie through his account of the horror he endured during the Holocaust simply because he was Jewish,’ wrote the president.” This memorial edition of Night will include a tribute statement by Barack Obama in which he memorials the many achievements of Wiesel.
This edition also includes “the unpublished text of a speech that Wiesel delivered before the United Nations General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz entitled ‘Will the World Ever Know.’ These remarks powerfully resonate with Night and with subsequent acts of genocide.”