Bebeto Matthews, The Associated Press In this Sept. 12, 2012, photo Elie Wiesel is photographed in his office in New York. “Night” was so bleak that publishers doubted it would appeal to readers.

As antisemitism grows in the United States, the son of a Holocaust survivor is emphasizing the importance of teaching young people about the horrors of what happened to Jews at the hands of the Nazis.

Elie Wiesel ... in ‘Night. There is no extraneous detail, no analysis, no speculation. There is only a story: Eliezer’s account of what happened, spoken in his voice.” Wiesel began working ...