Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Night by Elie Wiesel

161 reviews

queerloras's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Murder, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Trafficking, War, Child death, Deportation, Genocide, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual content, Medical content, and Adult/minor relationship

ploominator's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Genocide, War, Violence, and Antisemitism

julybunny's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Murder, Genocide, Mass/school shootings, and Confinement

book_reader_lover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow! I finished this last night and had to take a minute with my emotions. I read this in one day. I think everyone in the world needs to read this book. There is so much hate out there. 

This book is a true witness account of what happened during the Holocaust to one young boy. I cried. What he witnessed and saw is unbelievable. I don't know that I could be as strong as he was. 

I think if everyone read this book, then maybe things would change. History shouldn't be hid, it should be put out there, where hopefully we learn from it and don't repeat it. The way this world is now, I am afraid we are going to repeat some terrible things from our past. I pray we don't.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Genocide, Child death, and Death

Minor: Deportation

onlyonebookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Genocide, and Child death

trenakos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Death, and Antisemitism

rhilberg's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Genocide, and Murder

Moderate: Deportation, Grief, and Child death

happilyeveralli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

AN AMAZING SECOND READ OF THE YEAR, READ FOR ENGLISH 10. Usually I don’t really “latch” onto the books I read for school. NIGHT was the opposite. I was instantly hooked. I’m not sure why. The book was a poignant read, and a needed one for our time. This is one book that I think everyone should make the effort to read at least once. It’s difficult to get through, of course, due to the subject matter, but powerful and impactful. 

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Religious bigotry, Genocide, War, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

124smilehd's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I remember reading this book in high school and not being as interested because it was something I had to read. Rereading this as an adult has made a whirl of a diffrence. My copy had the preface, forward from the original french publication, and speech from the Nobel prize award which gave me so much more context and insight. It also helped me delve into further research about the topic and Wiesel himself.

The story itself is a dark and honest recount of a boy who survived the holocaust and it shows the progression of his lost of hope, faith and even humanity. By his own admission, by the end when his

father dies

he feels nothing but relief, just as others before him had abandoned loved ones in order to keep themselves alive. As a reader you can't help but feel the heartbreak as he breaks both from internal and external tortures.

The book is beautifully written, with phrases that I will never forget and will probably keep me thinking for years to come. This is thanks to the tremendous skill of his wife, Marion Wiesel, who is the translator of this edition.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Genocide, Antisemitism, Violence, War, Gore, Child death, Death, Police brutality, and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content and Deportation

ksuazo94's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Deportation, Medical trauma, Excrement, Grief, Antisemitism, Confinement, Genocide, Death, and Death of parent