Night

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Summary: A Realistic Concentration Camp Account
Review: Night is an excellent book. It is a very vivid and detailed account of the concentration camps during World War II. It is told through the eyes of a young man, Elie Wiesel. This book is extremely thought-provoking.
In the book, Elie describes his fear and terror of being brought to a ghetto with his family. At first, the ghetto was not bad at all; it was better than Elie and his family had expected. However, the day his family packed up and was transported to a concentration camp was the day Elie's life changed forever. On the way to the concentration camp, Jewish people were packed into trains so they could hardly move. Once at the concentration camp, families were split up. Elie was terrified; he was still very young. He was separated from his mother and siblings, but he was not separated from his father. From that day, all the way until the end, Elie stayed with his father. When Elie's father grew weak, Elie gave him some of his food ration from the day. Soon after arriving at the camp, every person was sent to work. Elie and his father were split up during the day, but continued to support each other. After what seemed like forever, Elie and his father were moved to another concentration camp. All of the Jews were forced to run to the next camp. Anyone who stopped or was too weak to continue was shot. The officers in charge had no mercy for anyone and killed even little children. Soon, the weather turned cold, and people began to die from sickness. Elie's foot became infected and his father grew ill. Through it all, Elie forced himself to stay alive and stay strong. He forced his father to do the same. In the end, Elie learns a powerful lesson. He learns that belief in himself and in others got him through this horrific experience.
In this book, Elie describes everything with such graphic detail, I could see everything he described in my head. For example, I still remember the picture I got in my head when Elie described the ghetto when everyone had left to go to the concentration camps. It was empty, desolate, and silent, almost like a desert. It was as if no one had every lived there at all. I thought Night was an excellent historical biography of the cruelties of World War II.

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Summary: A Personal Account of the Holocaust
Review: This is an incredible book. This is the story of a boy's life in a concentration camp. He survives, but as an orphan and without any kind of family. It's a graphic description of what his life was like there. The two most touching moments for me were when the prisoners all recite the Jewish prayer for the dead for themselves, and when the narrator (Wiesel himself, I believe) discovers his mother and sisters are dead when he is sorting clothing of dead prisoners and recognizes their clothes. Prior to that he had been separated from them and assumed that they were simply in a different part of the camp, when in fact, as was standard operating procedure most of the time for prisoners who the Nazis didn't consider valuable, they were sent to the gas chambers. It's the poignant personal moments like this that make this book so gripping. We must never forget, and it must never happen again.
Wiesel has written two other books chronicaling what happened next, after the camps, but I haven't read them yet.

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Summary: What is there left to say?
Review: This short work speaks for itself and leaves the reader speachless. This is perhaps the most eloquent and riveting account ever put to paper by a holocaust survivor. Even in translation, the prose is simple and cuts to the heart of the inhumanity and horror Wiesel experienced (though if you are able, look up a copy of this book in its original French: La Nuit). A must read.

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Summary: Night
Review: In this bookthe auathor Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy who tells of his life. It first began when he was living in the ghetto. At this time the ghetto was a place where the Germans put all Jews so they could watch over their every movements. He then talks about him leaving the ghetto being forced by the Germans to concentration camps. There he was seperated from his mother and sisters. He and his father had a difficult time going through the rigourous training. You'll have to read the book to find out what actually happened in these concentration camps.
I like this book because it shows of real life and how the jews were treated back in the 1940's. It was sort of like reading a history book on Jews and concentration camps. I liked the way they showed the struggle of love between the father and son.
My favorite part in the book was when the father was very ill and his son struggled and struggled to keep him alive. He kept pushing his father to try to live and to think of how they would be after they were saved from the concentration camps. His father was very ill and was taken to the sickly section of the camp. He stayed there to keep his father's eyesopen so the people wouldn't take him away and presume him dead.

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Summary: Life in the Wrong Camp
Review: A Review by Jon
A young Jewish boy is alive during the time of the holocaust and is hiding from the Nazis as they are looking for as many Jewish people as they can. They are caught and brought to a death camp. They go through it tougher until one night the boys family is hung and killed, and he had to watch it all happen. He lives in the camp for many years and finally he is let out when thousands of people got out of it.

This is a very good story I liked the way it was in first person and you really never discovered the young boys name. It had a lot of surprises in it like when the boy's family died and they got to celebrate the two holidays (Christmas and New Years). It taught me a lot of things I didn't know about the holocaust and I thought I knew a lot because we studied it very much of last year. I liked the climax usage as they made it more exciting through the book. The one thing I didn't like was that it had a lot of things that weren't needed like the part about the homosexuals and what not. That just didn't interest me and I wanted to throw the book away.

I would most diffidently would recommend this book. It is a very helpful book if you were trying to understand the life in death camps and if you want a great read too, I gave it 3 out of 4 stars.

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Summary: a great read!
Review: ...I thought it was so riveting!! some parts were very sad such as when a man was being attacked for a piece of bread because everyone was so starved. but that wasn't the only sad part...it was a sad book, but it was really well written. i highly recommend this book. but i would read it only if you think you can handle it.

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Summary: Night
Review: Night is the best novel I have read in a long time. It gives a play by play of the tragedy of the Holocaust. It begins with Germany taking over and ends with the most tragic loss, the one of a family member.

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Summary: Amazing Book...
Review: I read this for an english class. The reason I selected it was because I thought that it would just be a breeze and easy to read. Once I got into the book, I didn't want to put it down. It's a very chilling, first hand account about the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and it opens your eyes to just what kinds of horrible acts the Germans forced on the Jews.

I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to learn about the greusome horrors of the Holocaust...

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Summary: So Thin, Yet So Moving
Review: This book, a mere 109 pages, is a very moving tale of the concetration camps in Germany. This book is a must read that leaves you shaken. Read it.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is an excellent portrayal of what life was like for Holocaust victims. While there is quite an excess of Holocaust literature these days, I feel that this is one Holocaust book that everyone should read. Some of the other reviews said that it was too graphic and violent. Well, the Holocaust WAS violent! People need to hear about these things, and this book is a perfect way to hear them.