the horrific experiences of elie wiesel in the holocaust in his memoir night ﻿english ¾ honors 26 january 2015 from the night comes a dawn in the memoir by elie wiesel detailing his experience in the nazi concentration camps during the holocaust in the 1940s, elie is a young boy of fifteen when he loses his faith in god having been raised in a community that had many jewish people, he was.