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Night is a memoir about the author’s experience growing up as a Jewish boy in Eastern Europe and the hardships that he faced in concentration camps during the Nazi’s control of the region. It is a first hand account and the tales that he describes can be quite emotional.
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I found myself deeply, deeply moved to my very core. I find it hard to believe that one group of people can lack the heart, the depth of feeling and the compassion to commit such atrocities, such barbarous cruelty and inhumane evil on another group of people. Yet, I know not only did it happen but it continues to happen. This is a call to arms, a call to prevent holocaustic events from ever happening again. We need to answer that call to arms.
I found myself deeply, deeply moved to my very core. I find it hard to believe that one group of people can lack the heart, the depth of feeling and the compassion to commit such atrocities, such barbarous cruelty and inhumane evil on another group of people. Yet, I know not only did it happen but it continues to happen. This is a call to arms, a call to prevent holocaustic events from ever happening again. We need to answer that call to arms.
I feel strange saying I liked this book. It's heartbreaking. I think it's something everyone needs to read, both to keep something like this from happening again, and to know something about human nature. We like to pretend that terrible things, things so awful our minds revolt, haven't happened, at least until we have enough distance from them that they're safely in the past. We can never face the beasts right in front of us. This is something we need to overcome, and this book helps us see it,
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I find it so difficult to read anything about the Holocaust. (I was not able to bring myself to visit Auschwitz when I went to Krakow.) But, I know it is imperative to remember and when I saw that Elie Weisel had written his memoir of his experience, I knew this was the book to read. It is a very thorough examination of his survival through several concentration camps- which may have only happened because he was so driven to save his father. There are so few books that make me cry... but this is
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