Night

Night by Elie Wiesel

My rating (out of 5 stars):

5 stars—It was amazing.

My thoughts:

It’s hard to put into words how these holocaust survivor stories impact me.  Wiesel’s story is haunting and raw. I struggle to even comprehend how a person survives this type of atrocity. The part where he details his Father’s death broke my heart.

What an amazing man to share his story for the better of the world. A quote:

“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”

Description Goodreads.com:

“Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father–child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver.

Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.”