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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
Moving book about Wiesel's personal Holocaust ordeal and what it takes to survive the concentration camps
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This book had a very big impact on me and at some times it was very disturbing. Though this book was phenomenal and had a very big impact. Rating: 4.5
I’m not even sure where to start this review. Well, first of all, I loved this book. I am forever thankful to my tenth grade English teacher, who put this memoir in my hands. If you are someone who believes they are well educated in world history, you are not if you haven’t read Night. I often think back to the chapter of the father and son fighting for bread. “I was only fifteen...” touched my heart. I will never forget Night.
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This is one of those books that is important to keep in circulation, especially among young people. It feels awkward to review because it is, as one critic put it, "beyond criticism." Any short, blunt memoir from an Auschwitz survivor is bound to be important and beyond reproach. Most people today are no longer holocaust deniers. To most educated people, the very idea now seems sacrilegious. Brilliantly, [a:Elie Wiesel|1049|Elie Wiesel|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1255518412p2/1049.jpg] begins the book with a story about a man who witnessed a massacre before the population was shipped off to concentration camps, who made it back to his town to warn them. They didn't listen. They, the future victims of genocide, treated him the same way they themselves were to be treated after the war. They thought him insane; they thought he exaggerated for pity's sake. They did not believe, and they did not act. I will repeat the oft-repeated treacle: Keeping books like this alive is the only way to keep history from repeating itself, because a tragedy of this magnitude must never be allowed to happen again.