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What Members Thought

Beth
Apr 03, 2017 rated it really liked it
A short, harrowing, unforgettable read. One that you wish was fiction and are sickened every time you realise it isn't.

Night tells the intimate first person account of a young Jewish boy during WWII. We see the horror of not only the concentration camps, but the stifling feeling of impending doom before he and his family are ripped from their homes by the Nazis.

The way the story is told is simple and hauntingly effective; you feel for Eliezer in every word he has written and this is a book I w
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Wendy
Dec 04, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2017-reads
Read this with my 8th grade son as part of his English class.
Katie
What a completely heartbreaking, Eye opening book.
Constance
Aug 29, 2010 rated it it was ok
Shelves: biography, holocaust
Mark
Nov 23, 2010 rated it really liked it
Roshio
Feb 01, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shelves: dl
Vania Reis
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Kristie
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Shelves: memoir, war, history
Donna
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Michelle
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Heather G
Feb 05, 2014 rated it it was amazing
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Nov 14, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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Dan Meier
Jun 30, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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Deb
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Jul 13, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Stacey Jo
May 22, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Mpppg
Feb 09, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Sean
Aug 11, 2019 marked it as to-read
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Debra
Nov 11, 2019 marked it as to-read
Amber
Dec 24, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Paula S
Feb 19, 2020 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
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