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Summary: Night
Review: After reading "Hitler's Willing Executioners," I thought I had a feeling for what really happened with the Holocaust. But not until I read "Night," did I really grasp the horror of the pain and suffering that human beings had to endure at the hands of the SS Nazis. It's simply unbelievable what the Nazis did to their fellow human beings. This experience of Elie Wiesel is something you will feel and experience yourself as you read it. Certain places will probably make you cry; it did me.
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Summary: Night
Review: This was a very touching and emotional book which I would recommend to just about anyone. This is one of the best books I've ever read and think you should too.
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Summary: Depressing!
Review: Right now I am on a holocaust tirade. I have read several books about the holocaust in the last month or so. I get depressed as I read each one, so why do I continue reading? I'm not sure. Elie Weisel tells a compelling, though provoking story.
As a high school English teacher I would recommend this for a middle school classroom.
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Summary: A Question of Faith
Review: This is a moving and sorrow-filled tale of survival under the worst of circumstances. Unfortunaltely, it is a true story and only one a halocaust survivor would be able to tell. This is an important book for all to read. The author shows vividly the daily occurances of his life while imprisoned, and takes the reader through the worst times of his life as he questions his own faith. This book shows that the literal translation of the age-old saying "what doesn't kill you, will make you stronger".
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Summary: Night by Elie Wiesel
Review: I think Night is a very good book about the Holocaust. It shows what the Jewish went through like being separate from your family and being sent to concreation camps. The part I got really into the book was when the SS order the Jews to march on the frozen snow. I could actually see what was happening, walking on dead frozen bodies. they were starving to death and also freezing. that was sad and horrible to that to happen to anyone. this book gave more of a understanding of the Holocaust and the Death Marches.
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Summary: Remembering....
Review: Night is a memoir, but the author was not a professional writer. That is why this could not receive five stars. The story was compelling enough, but I found it hard to get into it when the writing wasn't powerfull. It could have been better.
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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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