Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania. Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his
family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp,
and then to Buchenwald. Night is
the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, the
death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew
confronting the absolute evil of man.
This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion
Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in
English of Elie Wiesel’s testimony to what happened in the camps of his
unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
3/5 stars (liked it)
This was a very sad book as well as should be expected when
writing about a concentration camp. It
still shocks me to think of how people were treated and what they had to
endure. Anyone that has survived that
kind of brutality deserves to be heard and live out the rest of his or her
lives in comfort. The only thing I
would have liked about this book was an epilogue of sorts to see what happened
to Elie after the concentration camps.
Our next book: The Last Communist Virgin – Ping Wang
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