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Elie Wiesel tells the true story of his horrific experiences and observations during his time as a Jew in concentration camps. He was only a teen when he and his entire family were sent to the camps. He and his father and others in the camps were starved, beaten, forced to work, forced to make a death march to a second camp, and humiliated by those who ran the camps. He watched as his father was beaten and did not intervene, and he found the next morning that his father had died from the beating
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Wiesel was not yet fifteen when the Transylvanian village he and his family lived in was evacuated during WWII. His family was taken to German concentration camps, separated, and he and his father were in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Wiesel describes the horrors of starvation, beatings and fear of being next for selection.
This is a slim book but it's packed with Wiesel's experience. He is more honest with the reader than most would be, such as admitting to being angry at his starved father for movi ...more
This is a slim book but it's packed with Wiesel's experience. He is more honest with the reader than most would be, such as admitting to being angry at his starved father for movi ...more
Another one about the concentration camps. My dad passed this to me after telling him about Man's Search for Meaning. A more depressing look at life, with little in the way of hope. But a story that needs telling and understanding. Beautifully written, a raw rendering of emotion.
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So short, but soul-wrenchingly real.
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