Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Night by Elie Wiesel

87 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

theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

This should be required reading for  high school students. 

This is a heart wrenching, first hand account of what happened to one boy, his family, friends, and neighbours during the holocaust; specifically his time spent in concentration camps, such as Auschwitz. It was incredibly difficult to read/listen to and brought me too tears throughout. 

The genocide that took place during the Second World War against the Jewish people needs to be taught, and the the antisemitism that still exists today needs to be stopped. We must not repeat history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Antisemitism, Death, Death of parent, Torture, Genocide, Emotional abuse, and War

hash_slinger_09's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, and Genocide

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Blood

lostposture's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

To give this book a five-star ranking feels wrong. How do you award an experience so painful? How do you respond to the story of the survivor? With pity for their misfortune? With joy and awe of their stupendous luck? Or do you simply go numb, heart breaking under the thunderous crush of human capacity for hate and evil? How can I give such a terrible story five stars?

Five stars to author Elie Wiesel for reliving his pain to share his experience for the world to learn from. Five stars to Marion Wiesel for her haunting translation of his story from French to English. May they both rest in peace.

This will live with me for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child abuse, Torture, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War and Sexual content

I think that covers most of it

vintage_library's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

A very raw account of the personal experience of Elie, an Holocaust survivor. It was a difficult, but important read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Antisemitism, Violence, Gun violence, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, and Murder

Minor: Torture

wanderingdeviant's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

“to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Genocide, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

puglover's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Murder, Genocide, War, Death, Torture, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Child death, and Deportation

Minor: Sexual violence

horizonous's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Antisemitism, Genocide, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Medical content, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

shrutislibrary's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, War, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Genocide, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Torture, Medical content, Death, and Antisemitism

theallmightyme's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Racism, Murder, Death, Violence, Torture, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, and War