Night by Wiesel, Elie (2006) Paperback

I purchased as a gift for my granddaughter and she liked it.

I bought this for my sister in laws little sister, who suddenly has become an avid reader. She is a sweet, beautiful young woman who is naive and inexperienced in the world.She had this on her birthday list, and I warned her against it. I explained the contents and she still wanted it. So I bought it. I hope she can sleep at night.This book, along with 'A Forgotten Fire' changed my life. Very honest. Simple. And brutal.How such wretched evil can exist, despite being told of it from all these books, documentaries, diaries, etc, is still beyond me.

Bought it for my daughter to get some education on appreciation of life over the summer

I loved this book. It only took me a few days to read. The book is heavy in the best way. 10/10 recommend.

We must never forget that evil is not foreign to humanity it is part of the experience of life. We remember so that we recognize and stop man's inhumanity.

"Night" by Elie Wiesel is a moving memoir that recounts the firsthand horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of a young boy. Throughout the novel, Wiesel captures the unimaginable suffering he endured in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The book's narrative delves into the devastating impact of the Holocaust on faith, identity, and humanity. Wiesel's detailed descriptions -from being surrounded by death, to nearly experiencing it himself- truly makes this a must-read novel. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking to learn a little more on WWII or a different point of view of the Holocaust.

This short memoir about Elie Wiesel’s time spent in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps is a powerful testimony about the experience of the Holocaust for its victims. It begins in his small hometown in Transylvania where the ominous fate of the Jewish population begins to come into focus although his neighbours had a hard time believing what was to come. Wiesel and his family are deported to Auschwitz where he is separated from his mother and sister but remains with his father. His experiences in the camp are harrowing with cruelty, starvation, and harsh living conditions being the rule for all. The culture of the camp is presented with the young pretending to be older and the old pretending to be younger, to avoid the fate that the Nazis have in store for those who cannot work. Wiesel lived in Auschwitz up until just before its liberation by the Soviet Army, choosing to join the death march to the west alongside his father for fear that those who stayed behind would be murdered. Wiesel’s will to live was very powerful, even as his life is reduced to “one long night” and a life that will never be the same even if he makes it out of the camps one day. This is a captivating, journalistic account of life in the concentration camps and it is a reading experience that one can never forget.

Night by Elie Wiesel has been on my TBR List for a long time. I'm sure I put it off because I knew it was going to be a difficult read. So, I finally braced myself and started listening to it a couple of nights ago. (NOTE: the reader is excellent and it's a short book.)I was wrong. It was compelling, heart-wrenching, beautifully written, but not a difficult read. I'm sitting in my comfortable middle-class life in the US. What would be difficult would be to live through what this man -- and millions of others -- lived through. We all know what happened, we've all read a lot of WW II fiction and non-fiction, watched documentaries and movies. We know the horror of Nazi Germany. And yet, this book, this man's personal account is a must read. It takes everything that happened and shows it from the perspective a boy who lived it.As I said, a MUST READ.