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A review by literaryjunarin
Night by Elie Wiesel
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Violence, Genocide, Murder, Antisemitism, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death