An excellent read of one of the survivors of the Holocaust from Hungary. I would recommend this book for it's history and informative content--it was hard to put down! It is a thin book and reads fast because it is so interesting. Excellent writing by the author.
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As a long time reader of WWII history and also literature in general, I felt this book was a child's tale. Not much depth or understanding of the workings of humanity at all but then perhaps that was the point. Certainly he was not a student of the deep secrets of life, mystical nature of the universe. The irony is the man who says he is most in touch with those ideas-no one believes and then he stays around and lets people deride him. Perhaps a classic case of Jewish guilt but clear that the people in the book were in some sort of denial of world history and the nature of humanity or evil. This is the case for many of the victims of the holocaust. Some simple reminders about self interest and the will to survive under the most extreme circumstances. However, I do admire all the the author has done with his fame and money, but I think this book is famous because he was one of the few to ever write about his life in the camps. I was expecting something much more erudite or moving. This is no Anne Frank's Diary. Much better resources out there for those interested including personal interviews with survivors I have known.Read full review
Night by Elie Wiesel is a very interesting book. Who would have thought life was like that in the military way back when. The content was very compelling. If you like nonfiction, you'll like this book.
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I had read this book in middle school, and loved it. Then about a month ago I saw an episode of Oprah with Elie Wiesel and they were walking around Auschwitz and I had to read the book again. It is the most moving of all the books I've read about the Holocaust (Anne Frank and Number the Stars <which is a fiction novel by Lois Lowry but great>,eg.). It not only describes what happened before and during his time at the concentration camp, but his disillusionment with God. Before he went to the concentration camp he was very religious but as he watches his family slaughtered and the horrors that surround him he questions the power of the Almighty. It's especially interesting after watching the interview with him, he mentions the woman on the train on the way to Auschwitz, who screams of fire and everyone being devoured by flames. Everyone assumes she's crazy until they arrive at the death camp and see the chimney of the crematory and realize they should have listened to her and escaped when they had the chance. I would recommend this book to anyone. It's not a very long book but it is powerfully written.Read full review
Very well written book giving description of life seen through eyes of a father and son as they live through time of Nazi death camps. Elie Wiesel, author and son(as spoken in book), indirectly speaks of psychological stages mankind went through while experiencing cancentration camps. Book gives excellent view of human ego shallowed by confusing camp life lead by Nazi germans ending in accemptance of death. Much more to be explained, yet only for you to see if purchsed! I baught it because of the recomendation given by a preist who did intense research on these death camps and saints who rose from them.
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