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Night by Elie Wiesel
5.0

I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed...

And now the boy is turning to me. "Tell me," he asks, "what have you done with my future, what have you done with your life?"
- Elie Wiesel, during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, December 10, 1986

Elie Wiesel goes beyond creating a portrait of the concentration camps and the hell he endured there; he has written a warning: forgetting is dangerous. The oppression of one concerns the souls of all.