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Night by Elie Wiesel
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Featured book is about a searing personal memoir of a boy who lived through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a witness to the evils of the Nazi regime.
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First published January 1, 1992
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Sharon Flitterman-King
6 books3 followersSharon Flitterman-King grew up in Southern California. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from U.C.Berkeley, and has written, taught and lectured for many years. She lives with her husband in Upstate New York near the Berkshires.
A Secret Star is her first novel.
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January 5, 2013
Written in plain language, this is the first of 21 books written by Elie Wiesel, who at 14 was removed from hid town of Sighet in Transylvania and with his entire family taken to Auschwitz, then to Buchenwald. Less than a hundred pages, it simply narrates, in first person, his history with his father from that time, through his father's death, to the arrival of the first American tanks that freed him on April, 1945.
Learning what had happened to the Jewish people during WWII as a child was the first chink in the armor of my deeply-ingrained Catholic faith. Somehow before I'd turned 12, I had also learned that Pope Pius XII had done nothing to help the Jews avoid slaughter.
But it was not until my own children, tri-racial, were cruelly abused, fraudulently graded, and tormented by teachers in Catholic schools through high school that I decided Christians were the least likely people on earth to follow the teachings of Christ and became first agnostic, and finally, an atheist.
Reading "Night" at 62 I realize what a very slow learner I have been. I'd read Anne Frank's diary at about 12, too--and for all my years I clung to her words, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." After "Night," I'd rather have faith in canines.
Stalin once said, "The death of a single person is a tragedy. The death of 40,000 is just a statistic." It's true. The 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust have been nothing more than a statistic for me, until now. "Night" has forced me to understand the brutality endured by very few--and that has been genuinely painful.
Near the end, after a ten-day march in blizzard conditions and six more days in a cattle-train with no top, a hundred thin almost- corpses packed together per car, the train stopping from time to time only to throw away the dead, Elie finds himself crushing an old friend, a violin player, as Elie himself is battling to breathe with a body on top of him. Scratching and clawing until he wins and finds breath, Elie suddenly hears the strains of the violin playing Beethoven--German music forbidden to Jews. His friend plays his life out in that one piece, and dies. After half a century, I've finally cried.
Every human should be required to read this book.
Learning what had happened to the Jewish people during WWII as a child was the first chink in the armor of my deeply-ingrained Catholic faith. Somehow before I'd turned 12, I had also learned that Pope Pius XII had done nothing to help the Jews avoid slaughter.
But it was not until my own children, tri-racial, were cruelly abused, fraudulently graded, and tormented by teachers in Catholic schools through high school that I decided Christians were the least likely people on earth to follow the teachings of Christ and became first agnostic, and finally, an atheist.
Reading "Night" at 62 I realize what a very slow learner I have been. I'd read Anne Frank's diary at about 12, too--and for all my years I clung to her words, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." After "Night," I'd rather have faith in canines.
Stalin once said, "The death of a single person is a tragedy. The death of 40,000 is just a statistic." It's true. The 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust have been nothing more than a statistic for me, until now. "Night" has forced me to understand the brutality endured by very few--and that has been genuinely painful.
Near the end, after a ten-day march in blizzard conditions and six more days in a cattle-train with no top, a hundred thin almost- corpses packed together per car, the train stopping from time to time only to throw away the dead, Elie finds himself crushing an old friend, a violin player, as Elie himself is battling to breathe with a body on top of him. Scratching and clawing until he wins and finds breath, Elie suddenly hears the strains of the violin playing Beethoven--German music forbidden to Jews. His friend plays his life out in that one piece, and dies. After half a century, I've finally cried.
Every human should be required to read this book.
April 7, 2008
Everyone should read this book. I wouldn't recommend it right before "Slaughterhouse Five," though, which was when I read it. The author relates his memoir of time spent in Nazi concentration camps. Everyone should confront this terrible horror sometime in their lives, but reading the two books in tandem can shake your hope for humanity. The cruelty and injustice are so monumental and monstrous.
However, Elie survived. His being a teenager probably helped, although there were hundreds of thousands of teenagers who did not survive. His decency and humanity were what got him through this. Although he feels tremendous guilt about abandoning his father, the fact that he felt guilt and worried about his father is a testament to his decency. If I were to meet him face-to-face, I would very gently disagree about his "abandoning" his father in the first place. He got through this without becoming a monster, or dead inside, himself.
My words really are inadequate to describe the impact of this book. It really is stunning, and everyone should read it.
A very good book on the same subject is "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom. She was a member of the Dutch underground who sheltered Jews in a hiding place in their home in Amsterdam. She was discovered and she and her sister were placed in Auschwitz, regardless of the fact that they were octogenarians. Corrie had the secret for surviving this. This book is wonderful to read because it tells you what to do when evil wins.
However, Elie survived. His being a teenager probably helped, although there were hundreds of thousands of teenagers who did not survive. His decency and humanity were what got him through this. Although he feels tremendous guilt about abandoning his father, the fact that he felt guilt and worried about his father is a testament to his decency. If I were to meet him face-to-face, I would very gently disagree about his "abandoning" his father in the first place. He got through this without becoming a monster, or dead inside, himself.
My words really are inadequate to describe the impact of this book. It really is stunning, and everyone should read it.
A very good book on the same subject is "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom. She was a member of the Dutch underground who sheltered Jews in a hiding place in their home in Amsterdam. She was discovered and she and her sister were placed in Auschwitz, regardless of the fact that they were octogenarians. Corrie had the secret for surviving this. This book is wonderful to read because it tells you what to do when evil wins.
August 30, 2021
A very short but captivating book! Although it's not light-hearted, it's definitely worth a read.
January 15, 2021
I'm not even sure what to say about this book.
#1. Wiesel's dealings with God in this book are spectacular. For him to have endured so much and to have seen so much death and to still believe in God, is truly awe-inspiring.
#2. I love the forward at the beginning of the edition that I read. He talks about the implications now and how language played a large part in his feeling that he might not have done the story justice. The original telling of this book was in Yiddish and then translated. He brings up a point. How can one truly get across how horrific and terrible the Holocaust was?
#3. We need to learn from history. He states in the forward that the Holocaust was treated much differently in the 50s and 60s with almost an utter indifference. Today, even though we are more removed, we look upon the holocaust with so much sadness for the lives lost and look upon Nazi's as villains (which they are the worst, let's be real). I was not aware of the culture shift.
Beautiful. Extremely depressing. Riveting.
#1. Wiesel's dealings with God in this book are spectacular. For him to have endured so much and to have seen so much death and to still believe in God, is truly awe-inspiring.
#2. I love the forward at the beginning of the edition that I read. He talks about the implications now and how language played a large part in his feeling that he might not have done the story justice. The original telling of this book was in Yiddish and then translated. He brings up a point. How can one truly get across how horrific and terrible the Holocaust was?
#3. We need to learn from history. He states in the forward that the Holocaust was treated much differently in the 50s and 60s with almost an utter indifference. Today, even though we are more removed, we look upon the holocaust with so much sadness for the lives lost and look upon Nazi's as villains (which they are the worst, let's be real). I was not aware of the culture shift.
Beautiful. Extremely depressing. Riveting.
September 6, 2020
The saddest book I've ever read.
May 15, 2021
This famous book is quite powerful and extremely depressing.
July 24, 2024
It has become easy in this day and age to become desensitized to the atrocities of this world, allowing the silence of the onlookers encourage the actions of the oppressors.
“Night” must be read carefully, with great intention. It is a required reading.
Concise, yet powerful.
I encourage you to not only read this, but to also listen to Elie Wiesel’s Novel Prize acceptance speech as a preamble, or a book cap.
“Night” must be read carefully, with great intention. It is a required reading.
Concise, yet powerful.
I encourage you to not only read this, but to also listen to Elie Wiesel’s Novel Prize acceptance speech as a preamble, or a book cap.
February 11, 2017
I had the privilege of hearing Elie Wiesel speak back in the 1980's when he came to my hometown. I was in high school then, approximately the age he was when he and his family and village were taken from their homes and sent to forced labor camps by the Nazi's. This book chronicles his story of coming of age during the most inhuman time in modern history. Told in a narrative voice that immediately draws me in, it relates unthinkable events in a matter of fact way that creates an indelible impression. For any student of history, of humanity, of psychology, of modern politics, this is a must read. History must never repeat itself.
June 29, 2014
Night is an autobiography about the author, Elie Wiesel's, life during the Holocaust. The book opens with Moshe the Beadle, a homeless Jewish man who has seen what the Germans are doing to the Jewish people. He tries to warn the Jewish citizens of Sighet, Hungary, but to no avail. The people believe Moshe is just a crazy old man who made up the tale of him being taken away. The Hungarian government is taken over by the Fascists and German armies in the spring of 1944. Strict laws are enforced on the Jewish people of Sighet, such as all valuables are taken from their possession and they must wear a yellow star. The people of Sighet are worried, but not terrified, because they believe they wouldn't be sent to concentration camps. Tragically, they are wrong and are brought to Auschwitz in cramped, dirty trains. At the concentration camp, Elie and his family undergo "selection", which is when the healthy are saved and the sick or weak perish. Elie and his father are separated from him mother and sisters, who he never sees again. While at Auschwitz, Elie witnesses gruesome acts that are ingrained in his brain forever.
After three weeks, Elie and his father are moved from Auschwitz to Buna, another camp. Staying in Buna takes a toll on Elie's already weak and emaciated body. His faith is also questioned as he watches people being mercilessly killed, including a young boy who is hung. He questions his God, and why he still believes in a god who would let this happen to His people. During Rosh Hashanah, a Jewish holiday, Elie has trouble praising his God because his faith is dwindling. Winter soon arrives in Buna, along with the Russian Army. The prisoners of Buna are evacuated before the Russians could free the people of the concentration camp. They arrive at Gleiwitz, and are herded onto train carts, where they make multiple stops to throw out the dead.
Buchenwald is the last stop for Elie and his father, who has become deathly ill with dysentery. For weeks, Elie is at his father's beck and call. On January 29,1949, Elie wakes to find his father's bunk empty and he feels relieved that he was lifted with the burden of caring for his father. Elie's main focus now is surviving.
In the End, the American army storms into Bunchenwald, liberating it from German control. Elie ironically becomes sick from overeating, since he had been starving in the concentration camps. He is nursed back to health by the Americans before being freed. Elie never sees or hears from any of his family again. He had to mature and endure many hardships that made him a stronger person.
While reading Night, I admired Elie risking his life to stay with his father. Family was very important to him, and he made sure his father had enough rations. He would trick the guards during the "selections" so his weak father wouldn't be killed. I usually don't get emotional over books or movies, but this book brought tears to my eyes. The most emotional part of the book, in my opinion, is when the Russian army liberated Buna. Elie has the choice to stay in Buna because he was injured, or be evacuated with his father. Elie was so, so close to being freed, but he chose to be with his father.
All in all, this is a great book and I would recommend it to anyone. It is a different way of reading history, since most accounts are not first-hand. You experience everything that has happened to Elie Wiesel through his book. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.
After three weeks, Elie and his father are moved from Auschwitz to Buna, another camp. Staying in Buna takes a toll on Elie's already weak and emaciated body. His faith is also questioned as he watches people being mercilessly killed, including a young boy who is hung. He questions his God, and why he still believes in a god who would let this happen to His people. During Rosh Hashanah, a Jewish holiday, Elie has trouble praising his God because his faith is dwindling. Winter soon arrives in Buna, along with the Russian Army. The prisoners of Buna are evacuated before the Russians could free the people of the concentration camp. They arrive at Gleiwitz, and are herded onto train carts, where they make multiple stops to throw out the dead.
Buchenwald is the last stop for Elie and his father, who has become deathly ill with dysentery. For weeks, Elie is at his father's beck and call. On January 29,1949, Elie wakes to find his father's bunk empty and he feels relieved that he was lifted with the burden of caring for his father. Elie's main focus now is surviving.
In the End, the American army storms into Bunchenwald, liberating it from German control. Elie ironically becomes sick from overeating, since he had been starving in the concentration camps. He is nursed back to health by the Americans before being freed. Elie never sees or hears from any of his family again. He had to mature and endure many hardships that made him a stronger person.
While reading Night, I admired Elie risking his life to stay with his father. Family was very important to him, and he made sure his father had enough rations. He would trick the guards during the "selections" so his weak father wouldn't be killed. I usually don't get emotional over books or movies, but this book brought tears to my eyes. The most emotional part of the book, in my opinion, is when the Russian army liberated Buna. Elie has the choice to stay in Buna because he was injured, or be evacuated with his father. Elie was so, so close to being freed, but he chose to be with his father.
All in all, this is a great book and I would recommend it to anyone. It is a different way of reading history, since most accounts are not first-hand. You experience everything that has happened to Elie Wiesel through his book. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.
March 10, 2015
Short book just over 100 pages but gripping all the way. It begs the question - How can we let happen again and again to many different groups of people the experiences so similar to that of the Jews? I wish I were younger again so I could take up the battle cry for human rights. How can we get so bent out of shape over climate change, which is not real, while humans are suffering at the hands of terrorists all over the world. I suppose I should share the truth that the only solution is Jesus...
a quote:
“Human existence will not end with the imminent warming of our atmosphere or the gradual cooling of our sun and my particular destiny will not end with death. God will balance the scales of human history not by karma but by grace, in such a way that no one will be able to accuse God of unfairness…”
(Philip Yancey "Vanishing Grace")
We who believe dream of the day!
a quote:
“Human existence will not end with the imminent warming of our atmosphere or the gradual cooling of our sun and my particular destiny will not end with death. God will balance the scales of human history not by karma but by grace, in such a way that no one will be able to accuse God of unfairness…”
(Philip Yancey "Vanishing Grace")
We who believe dream of the day!
December 21, 2017
I really think Goodreads should allow you to enter books even when you re-read them. So this isn't the exact copy I read but it was more of a placeholder for me so that I could account for this book. I read the original night by Elie Wiesel. It was a re-read for me. Apparently I've read it in high school, 2007, and 2009 (I'm going from past Goodreads posts.) This makes time #4, and I read it for a Mother/Daughter book club I am in. Such a tragic story, yet told so straightforwardly and honestly. That's what makes this book a classic.
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January 7, 2014A slim but life changing volume - a must read for anyone interested in how human beings can survive inhumanity - told in stark, poetic, stirring honesty - riveting, harrowing, and unforgettable. Glad to know that this is on many middle school required reading lists.
February 10, 2015
Wow. This book was so emotional and powerful. It is hard to read books like these where things like this actually did happen but i think it is important to really be able to hear their stories in hopes that things like this won't happen again. Great book i recommend it 10x's over.
June 26, 2013
A slim volume of tremendous impact. It is a part of me now, and I believe I shall be carrying it with me for quite a long time.
November 6, 2015
Awesome, amazing book that has SO much figurative language. Great way for teens to gain insight into another world they know nothing about.
February 21, 2020
When I think of what I know about the Holocaust, certain solemn pictures that were quickly flashed on the projector during my high school years come to mind. Learning about the Holocaust has always been a subject that my peers and I understood to be tragic; however, we thought it was tragic because our teachers said so. We, of course, learned about (or rather memorized) statistics and looked at the occasional photo but, the Holocaust has always been masked with vague commentary via school teachers. At least, that's my experience in public school. It wasn't until I began to read this autobiography that I truly started to recognize the weight of the despicable movement in history that was Nazism. Weisel's descriptions put knots in my stomach. Reading about his community being isolated, his family being separated, babies being shot, children being hung, and so much more is an incredibly vivid and unforgettable understanding of the Holocaust. The suffering that Jews were forced to endure becomes tremendously clear. What's interesting to me is Elie's continual reminders to the reader that, with every horrible development, the Jews were hopeful. They hoped in some sort of rescue regardless of how many years they had suffered. Reading this, I knew what the end would tell for most of the people Elie met, which made me recognize how badly I wanted to hope with them and it made me all the more heartbroken to know that I could not. The men he described in the camp with him were looking forward, feeling optimistic; all I could feel was pity. One of the most striking descriptions was one that I read early in the book. Elie wrote about parents begging to be killed before their children so that they did not have to bear the pain of seeing their little ones murdered.
Night is the first book in a trilogy, I plan to read Dawn and Day this year as well. I highly recommend reading this book. Only 115 pages, no pictures, and will always be more memorable and striking than anything I learned about the Holocaust in school.
Night is the first book in a trilogy, I plan to read Dawn and Day this year as well. I highly recommend reading this book. Only 115 pages, no pictures, and will always be more memorable and striking than anything I learned about the Holocaust in school.
August 22, 2020
Night by elie wiesel is a witnesse account of life in concentration camps during the Nazi holocaust. An account of the horrific event that sprang from the darkest zone of man.
I wonder what makes humans so apathetic, so numb to the pain, to the human blood, to the cries and screams coming beyond the graves. How imposing such level of suffering onto others is justified conscientiously. What level of fanaticism turns humans into perpetrators of death.
This is also about survival, about the basic primary instinct of humans, about what human beings can endure. How strong those survivors were not to give up on life, to cling onto hope, to have lost faith but still exist and not to have turned into a demon. The experience must have shattered and consumed their faith, murdered their God and their soul. But to be able to write this book and to be strong enough to relive it while to paper his experience for the world surely shows elie wiesel is still a believer, a man of faith, he has not lost hope. He believes his existence and survival means something.
But having read this book made me go numb, to have lost faith in humanity, in the idea of co existence, consumed my faith in the creator. The world is unfair to many without giving them the justification for. To come into existence, it is itself a gamble. To live and let live seems an impossible idea. The world is a battle ground and existence is nothing but a fight to survive.
I wonder what makes humans so apathetic, so numb to the pain, to the human blood, to the cries and screams coming beyond the graves. How imposing such level of suffering onto others is justified conscientiously. What level of fanaticism turns humans into perpetrators of death.
This is also about survival, about the basic primary instinct of humans, about what human beings can endure. How strong those survivors were not to give up on life, to cling onto hope, to have lost faith but still exist and not to have turned into a demon. The experience must have shattered and consumed their faith, murdered their God and their soul. But to be able to write this book and to be strong enough to relive it while to paper his experience for the world surely shows elie wiesel is still a believer, a man of faith, he has not lost hope. He believes his existence and survival means something.
But having read this book made me go numb, to have lost faith in humanity, in the idea of co existence, consumed my faith in the creator. The world is unfair to many without giving them the justification for. To come into existence, it is itself a gamble. To live and let live seems an impossible idea. The world is a battle ground and existence is nothing but a fight to survive.
November 9, 2023
Night was an intriguing book, going in-depth and showing the unfiltered experience of someone who went through the horrors of the Holocaust, and it was quite captivating to read such a book detailing such horrid experiences that would be hard to find elsewhere on the Holocaust. This memoir emphasizes the themes of loss of faith and trauma on an individual through such hardships and helplessness in an environment like this, which are quite the themes and are clearly shown throughout the book. These themes were executed well through different symbols (such as the name of the book) and simply through how the characters behaved as time went on. Elie Wiesel's character was also something that really interested me, as part of him seemed almost lifeless but another part of him had the will to live on in the hardest moments. Overall, due to the complexity of the characters and the execution of the themes, as well as the unfiltered experiences of an unimaginably horrible event, this book is a great read and was quite engrossing.
August 23, 2019
On Holocaust Remembrance Day recognizing the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I listened to the audio recording of this landmark publication.
I have heard the story of Eva Kor from her own words as she sat beside me in her CANDLES Museum. She was one of the twins experimented on by Dr. Death himself. There is a remarkable documentary of her life "Eva" which I saw at the premier. Here is a link to a Google Talk with Eva and the Director.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT2mi...
I also visited "Elizabeth" several years ago who showed me her number forced into her wrist as a young child. She and her mother (with a number on her ankle) installed a large wire fence with tall bushes around their home guarded by no-nonsense guard dogs. Her father alone went out to the grocery. They stayed in their home waiting for the Nazis to return.
Never forget
I have heard the story of Eva Kor from her own words as she sat beside me in her CANDLES Museum. She was one of the twins experimented on by Dr. Death himself. There is a remarkable documentary of her life "Eva" which I saw at the premier. Here is a link to a Google Talk with Eva and the Director.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT2mi...
I also visited "Elizabeth" several years ago who showed me her number forced into her wrist as a young child. She and her mother (with a number on her ankle) installed a large wire fence with tall bushes around their home guarded by no-nonsense guard dogs. Her father alone went out to the grocery. They stayed in their home waiting for the Nazis to return.
Never forget
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July 18, 2022Night is about and written by a real holocaust survivor. In this book, we get to see how the holocaust looked through sixteen-year-old Elie’s eyes. We see him try to keep his head down so that he didn’t have to go to a concentration camp. Even though he seemed to be doing a good job, he still ended up getting put into Auschwitz. We get to read what it was actually like in one of those camps because Elie was actually a prisoner there.
To be completely honest I had a hard time reading this book because of how dark it is. And not to mention that I am constantly reminded that this is based on a true story. I would recommend this book to sophomores and up. This book is incredibly dark, not only because it talks about the holocaust but also because it deals a lot with death, torture, and war.
To be completely honest I had a hard time reading this book because of how dark it is. And not to mention that I am constantly reminded that this is based on a true story. I would recommend this book to sophomores and up. This book is incredibly dark, not only because it talks about the holocaust but also because it deals a lot with death, torture, and war.
January 18, 2019
The barcode box on the Hill and Wang edition of Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir, Night, categorizes the slim masterwork as Autobiography/Jewish Interest—which is true as far as it goes. To be all the way truthful, Night’s pertinence is universal. The cascade of deteriorating circumstances and the heinous terminal events vividly and coolly chronicled in Night are all manifestations of human nature, a corruption of forces that wreak havoc in people, all people, to this very day. Beyond a warning to keep history from repeating itself, Night puts our species on notice: Murder is in the continuum of our defining traits. Pay attention. Don’t be caught on either side of the worst expressions of what it means to be homo sapiens.
May 17, 2021
The main character in Night is Eliezer. Eliezer is portrayed as a teenager experiencing the holocaust with his father in the Nazi concentration camps. The story takes place in a few different locations, however most of it was during world war two around the time of mid 1900s. Furthermore, it is a Transylvanian town of Sighet to a Jewish ghetto, different cattle car, than a series of concentration camps. The conflict in the story is Eliezer's struggle to maintain faith in a benevolent god. The theme of the story is Eliezer's loss of religious faith. The has taught us to question faith, mysticism, religion etc. Overall, it was a pretty good book. I highly recommend it if you are into this side of history.
September 7, 2018
This book is a must read, I found myself so engulfed in this story that I could not put it down. It was gut wrenching and horrifying, but sadly true. The story explored the terror and helplessness of the prisoners and the lengths that people needed to enure to survive. I feel that everyone should read this book in order to learn about the horrors of this Nazi regime, so as to understand the events lead to such an awful time in history and hopefully prevent it from ever happening again.
May 18, 2020
This book is like a message to people who read this saying that life is not perfect, but almost as if you need to learn from it. It's like having a talk with the author himself about what has happened to him. The holocaust is a terrible event that happened in time. As saddening as it is, this book would help you learn it, what a real holocaust survivor went through. It helped me learn a lot more about it, hopefully it will for you if you read it. I fully recommend this book to anyone who thinks about reading it.
August 3, 2023
I work in a middle school library. It is both depressing and frightening that several of them, despite being taught about it in school, don't believe the Holocaust really happened. This firsthand account of the pain and suffering at Auschwitz should be read by all. Forgetting history is allowing the mistakes of the past to be made again. Nothing like this should ever happen again. It is painful, but it is honest and inspires hope even amidst a story of darkness and evil. I would recommend this to any human, starting as young as 12.
June 8, 2018
I gave this book 3 stars because there was a lot information on the holocaust and very sad details and it made you sad. there was too many bloody details for me. during this book, a jew went through concentration camps and all of the bad torture. he ended up making it out alive and wrote this book a bit later. this book is very sad and depressing. If you want to learn about the holocaust, read this book!
2020-readings
January 12, 2020I think this story, although short, is incredibly impactful. It is not easy to read, due to the nature of the book. It gets into the horrific acts of the holocaust very early into the book. It gives me even deeper gratitude, respect, and appreciation for the ones who survived this terrible act in our world history and for the ones who wrote about it how brave they truly are and were. I think this is a good book for academic purposes also.
July 18, 2020
When I initially came to this book, it was for a summer reading assignment, so I wasn't very enthusiastic about started. However, I realized how wrong I was after I actually began reading. I've spent years in a history class learning about the horrors of the Holocaust, yet not really knowing exactly what life was like in a camp. This novel opened my eyes to terrible things that went on here, especially being from the perspective of a child to whom this is all new. This was excellent.
September 5, 2022
The author was a Holocaust survivor & author of 57 books. Auschwitz and Buchenwald LEIPZIG & DRESDEN/POLAND. I placed membership at Temple B'nai Israel in 2004 & in 2013 I was FORCED IN HOMELESS LIVING-EMERGENCY SHELTERS I started reading this book, found it on the shelf there. I LOST EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER VALUED & WORKED FOR - my KIDS, too. They even removed my LIBRARY CARD & PRIVILEDGES BETWEEN 2015 to 2022.
November 3, 2023
The book night is based on the past but is a reflection for all time. The terrorizing events of WW2 are portrayed without fluff in this book. Although the book is short, it cuts straight to the chase and is filled with action. I can guarantee that the quotes in this book stay with you for life. All in all, Night is a no fluff book of what really happened in Auschwitz and the labor camps of Germany.
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