I can't understand how anyone can rate this less than 5 stars.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should read it.It should be required reading for every high school student all over the world so they can learn "NEVER AGAIN" ( )

Stark, sparse and jarring. ( )

One of the most powerful books on the Holocaust. The reading lexile (540) is deceptive; while Wiesel's prose may be honest and simple, the content is mature. I wouldn't be able to teach this novel year after year if I wasn't certain the outcome was worth it--the students really can't comprehend the Holocaust until they experience it through Elie's fifteen year old eyes. ( )

Steven Katz, Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, has chosen to discuss Elie Wiesel’s Night , on FiveBooks (http://five-books.com) on his list of essential reading on The Holocaust, saying that:

“…Elie Wiesel was a young boy of 14 when his tiny city, a place called Sighet in what was then the Romania-Hungary borderland, was overrun. They took him and his family. He went to Auschwitz, where his father died, but he survived the war, miraculously. His book is the most famous memoir of the death camps. He is able to bring to the focus of the reader a deep emotional power, and something also of the mysteriousness of what happened in the camps. There was something here that really reached the limits of human experience.

The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interview... ( )

Maybe because it was written so soon after the events, or maybe because it was written by a survivor, instead of "as told to", this was the most stirring account of the Holocaust that I have ever read. It was painful to read, yet I could hardly put it down. This should be required reading for the entire human race. ( )