Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Night by Elie Wiesel

168 reviews

casmurphy's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and War

starfish5's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

It will break your heart and soul. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, and Death of parent

Mandatory reading for all humans.

literaryjunarin's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

"I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?"

It was written and translated simply and unsentimentally. I was tense the whole time. I found myself asking the same questions he asked, "For God's sake, where is God?".

Even today, after all the stories I've read about the war, I still can't understand why that happened. Or how humans were capable of doing those horrendous things. Or why the victims had to suffer.

I really can't wrap my brain around this. How SS officers could throw infants in the air as targets for machine guns, how German girls can pass love letters to the soldiers that marched starving prisoners, how those who saw the prisoners threw bread into their cattle cars just to watch the spectacle of the prisoners killing each other for bread.

Maybe we'll never comprehend it, but we must remember that this happened. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

iris_garden's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Antisemitism

becca_w_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Excrement and Abandonment

l_e_a_h_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Torture, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

aatroxskitten's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Probably the most poignant Holocaust memoir, and most of it's from Elie Wiesel's excellent and snappy writing style. Everything about this memoir punches you in the gut, and it doesn't ever drag. I love this book for its writing, and fear it for its subject matter.

Ultimately if I had to pick a book to give the world and make everyone read it, though, it'd be this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Torture, Religious bigotry, and War

morgan_6246's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Suicide, Violence, and War

emileereadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

What a powerful memoir of Elie Wiesel's experience during the Holocaust. In a short book, he doesn't mince words and somehow beautifully describes his heart wrenching experience in the ghetto and subsequent concentration camps. I think this powerful book is a must read for everyone to try and understand the horrors of the Holocaust. It showcases pain and evil as well as grace and hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Antisemitism

_mckenzietyers's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, and War