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Summary: Night by Elie Weisel
Review: Before I read this book, I knew little about the Holocaust. While I read Night, I started to realize how bad it must have been to be one of the jews in the concentration camps. Being starved and worked to death in the fields, then the crematories, unbelieveable. But it wasn't until the night that the SS made all of the jews run in the freezing snow that I started to feel their pain. In Night, Elie Weisel described how he and his father struggled to survive the whole time, when at the end they came so close to collapsing. They helped each other subsist by sharing their only ration of bread each day with one another. When I got to the end, I was so relieved, yet angered with what had happened during this terrible time.
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Summary: Learn from our past
Review: The Holocaust was a time of our past, where Germany reigned and wielded their power to eliminate an entire ethnicity. Elie Wiesel survived through this reign of terror and through his book preaches that the Holocaust was an event in history that should be preventively studied. Wiesel supports this point through the autobiographical telling of the unconditional mistreating, suffering, and mass murders of ethnicities. Through a personal telling of the Holocaust Wiesel makes a better connection between the reader and reality. Overall, his unique approach adds to the fact that genocide should be prevented at all costs. While studying genocide and its effects one must evaluate a situation fairly. The authors' argument is solid except for the fact that his story does not consider the German point of view. However, he does support his premise through the sharing of his personal experiences that tell about the death of his family and the mistreating of others as he hung on to God for hope of survival. These inductively strong reasons support his premise clearly and precisely while at the same time he commits no fallacies. In conclusion, this book is informative and provides much knowledge to the real experiences of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust was an event of the past that should be learned from, there are some people who believe that it necessarily wasn't a bad thing or that it ever happened. These are the people that modern day society should worry about for the questions of who, what, where, when and why, can never be answered when dealing with genocide.
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Summary: A very important piece of historic writing
Review: Words cannot express the feelings this book conjures up. Mr. Weisel has done a superb job at bringing the reader into the story (the train ride, the camps, etc.) He vividly describes the depths of human suffering, torture and evil. This is a book that every kid in middle school should read so they understand what our freedom has cost and why. His accounts of human suffering which turn not just Jew against Jew, but family members against family members are experiences that we, fortunately, can only have nightmares about. This is a quick read but a very powerful, moving and horrific read.
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Summary: Terror was stronger than hunger
Review: The beginning of "Night" is itself an incredible story of spiritual discovery and Jewish Mysticism. Elie Wiesel tells the story of people full of devotion and faith persecuted senselessly for the religious beliefs that bring meaning to their lives (and deaths). He shows us the strength of people who continue to maintain faith in God in the face of unimaginable horror. Even when Elie feels that he has lost all faith he continues to see God on the face of a young child. He sees that it is God that is being murdered. He prays to God never to be broken to the point that he does not continue to keep his father alive and at his side. He says, "And in spite of myself a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom I no longer believed". Elie endured all of this at the age of fifteen. If I were to copy down every sentence that struck a cord in my soul I would copy down the entire book. This is the most powerful and even beautiful book that I have ever read. I read it first as a teenager and then again as an adult. Even if you have already read this book I recommend reading it again, and if you haven't read this book I cannot recommend it enough. We can learn so much from such a terrible time in our history. I pray that people will never forget, honor the incredible survivors, and never allow this to happen again.
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Summary: Great read!
Review: I had to read this book for school. I have never been much of a reader, especially for those books assigned in high school english classes. This book was very different though, I could not put it down, I definitely reccommend this book to any one, even if you dont enjoy reading.
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Summary: A short note
Review: When I was in high school 20 years ago, various books were required reading during those 4 years. I started reading all of them but usually became bored after 10-20 pages and never finished them, regardless of the impact this would have on my grade. In those 4 years, Night was only only book I read to the very end and did it in a couple of days. This is a powerful story of one of the darkest periods in mankind's history. Powerful to a high school kid that did not like being told what to read.
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Summary: Haunting
Review: This book may be short, but a lifetime is packed into these 109 pages. Elie Wiesel presented to me things I didn't know about or hadn't thought about the Holocaust - things like the man who escaped and ran back to his town and pleaded in tears with the people, telling them of things he saw, yet no one would believe him. Things like a son in the camp hitting his father and taking away his bread. Things like the dilemma of whether you should fast for 24 hours on Yom Kippur when you've been fasting for months in a concentration camp. This book is heartbreaking, and there is no peace at the end, either. You are taken with the writer through the sinking depths of finding that if only you (the writer) would have done a certain thing - listened to the man who proclaimed what he saw, gone on a different train, in a different line, stayed behind with a certain group - perhaps you would be free by now and your loved ones would be alive. Many lose all faith in God, and some manage to still believe in Him. This book is devestating. You're stripped and left hanging and empty. And perhaps that's the right effect the book should have. There is no resolution other than to learn of and remember the horror and determine that nothing similar will happen again.
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Summary: Night
Review: I believe that this book was truly a great book. You can really feel and see the pictures of everything the author described in his book, it gave me chills...
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: ... It is a matter-of-fact, no hype, blow by blow of life in a concentration camp. If you don't crumble under the force of it, you don't have a heart. It is as moving an account of life under Hitler as one might find, with no frills. You don't read thoughts, but facts and circumstances - one after the other - until you are left with the weight of the experience through the eyes of an amazing survivor. The impact of inhumane treatment on emotion and on perspective is enlightening. You feel almost as if you are reading Hemmingway, with a style in which the story, not the story-teller, leaves you to reach your own thoughtful conclusions. It is a very short book, and can be finished in one long sitting. In fact, you almost have to encounter it that way because putting it down just feels wrong. It is one of the most moving books I have ever read, and may be THE most moving book I have ever read.
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Summary: Wiesel is a liar
Review: I had to read this book in highschool. It was not until later that found out Wiesel was exposed as a fraud back in the early 80s. That's right, there is now serious doubt that he was ever interned at any camp. Here he claims to have be interned at Auschwitz. Yet in 1983 he wrote that he'd been liberated from Dachau, and in 1986 he wrote he'd been liberated from Buchenwald. In the 90s he claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy to discredit him and that there were hundreds of protesters at his Nobel Prize exeptence. What a liar. video of his Nobel Speech shows no such thing. Wiesel is a fraud who exploits the suffering of others for money. Read Norman Finkelstien's 'The Holocaust Industry' you'll understand liars like Wiesel.
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