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Remember reading this in 9th grade. A good introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust. ( )
  woodge | Nov 20, 2009 |
A very informative book makes for excellent reading. This book should be used in History curriculum in schools. Must read.
  fonders | Nov 19, 2009 |
Reviewed by Mrs. Foley
From Follett, "A chronicle of the holocaust through the eyes of a 14 year old Hungarian Jew who survived Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald."

I listened to this book on CD while driving to Illinois to visit my parents. Many of the students at my high school are required to read this book. It is very well-written, poignant, and a great work of historical fiction. Every secondary school library should have it.

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"In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died." ( )
  hickmanmc | Nov 17, 2009 |
“Night” by Elie Wiesel, is a magnificent memoir. This memoir helped me expand on my knowledge of the Holocaust. I knew how horrifying the Holocaust was, but this memoir gives people real-life examples. For example, when the Nazi’s hanged the young child and made all prisoners watch the boy suffer. Parts like this emotionally moved me and gave me a real idea of the Holocaust. This memoir was also able to teach me many lessons. The main idea the book revolves around is hope. Wiesel is able to prove that without hope we are nothing. Wiesel’s style of writing is not like any other authors. He writes in such a poetic way, and also makes the reader feel as if he or she was in the moment. While I was reading the book I felt the pain he was feeling. I recommend this book to everyone in the entire world. I think that all people should know what the Holocaust was really. Everyone should also be exposed to Wiesel’s writing. ( )
  ucla148 | Nov 13, 2009 |
The Holocaust was a horrible, inhumane and bloody occurence in history that was the result of the fallibleness of human nature. Such an event is almost impossible to describe in words because of its emotional, psychological and physical effects. However, Elie Wiesel, being a Holocaust survivor, knew what this pain really felt like and made a strong attempt in recreating the effects in his book Night. Only so much can be portrayed through words, but Wiesel does an excellent job in putting as much emotion into his writing as possible. Personally, i got a real sense of what it was like to be a victim of the Holocaust, but as mentioned above, words can only go so far. Wiesel maximizes this potential through his details of each event, giving his personal feelings toward it and a physical description. For example, when he sees the children being hanged in public at the camp, he tells us the emotional effects that that had on him and also gives us a detailed phyiscal description (which i will not repeat now). Wiesel does this for nearly every event, making the reader loathe the Nazis and their inhumane actions. By giving such a personal account, the reader can almost put himself/herself into his shoes and ask questions like, "What would that be like if it happened to me?" and get a good answer.

Ellie Wiesel does a great job of personally connecting to the reader and exposing the horrible nature of the Holocaust, which everyone in the world should know.
  aterracciano | Nov 12, 2009 |
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I think this is a great novel that everybody should read its so well written
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In memory of my parents and of my little sister, Tzipora
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They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.
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At about six o'clock in the evening, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald. Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only of that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread. And even when we were no longer hungry, there was still no one who thought of revenge.
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In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.

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