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Summary: A must for Anyone who wants to learn of the Holocaust
Review: I would only want to say this in the fewest of words to make the point come across more clearly. This book is a masterpeice of reality. It doesn't hold back on anything, because it's 100% true. It's a moving Auto-biographical book that will change you forever. I am very pleased to have read it and known there was another's veiw on this horrific subject.
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Summary: Chilling true story
Review: Comming straight from the mouth of a survivor, this chilling tale of a Jewish family stripped from their home, brings both pain and happiness. Elie Wiesel tells the true story of his seperation from his community and later his wife and daughter. The beauty of this story is not that he survives, since he is the author of this book, but the manner in which he carries himself through hard times. You will be astonished at the disturbing things innocent humans are put through in the various internment camps. The remarkable description that Elie goes through from the human ovens to the disease saturated bunks, will grab your feelings more than any other book. Reading this book will be a good experience for any reader. I recommend this book for anyone interested in a sad tale of the Holocaust.
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Summary: Gut-wrenching, difficult and moving
Review: A long dissertation-like review of this book is not necessary. Buy this book and read it. Your outlook on life will never be the same. Your views toward human-kind will never be the same. You will never be the same.
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Summary: If You Have Time, You Won't Put It Down
Review: I had this book recommended to me by my pastor and I am glad that I read it. At only 109 pages it goes very quickly. But this book is so wonderful. Because the Holocaust was such a dastardly event in human history, any book will capture its brutish and disgusting nature, but this small book somehow goes one step further. I honestly felt as though I was observing the Holocaust take place because of the vivid details and vocabulary Wiesel uses. My soul ached (and still aches) for the suffering of the Jews, and more specifically, the Wiesel family. Wiesel takes us from his home in Transylvania to the Nazi death camps and explains in agonizing detail how he got there and what it was like once he arrived.I consider this book to be in the "Must Have" section of anyone building a personal library. I was crushed and humbled while reading this book and it made me appreciate so much the freedom that we have today in this country. If you are looking for a book that will really help you to understand what the Holocaust was about, read this. And if you want a book that will make you content with your life, again, read this. It seems like most anyone who reads this book is amazed by the personal strength of Wiesel, who really symbolizes all Jews who made it through that awful time in mankind's history. This book will make the Holocaust so real to anyone who would read it.
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Summary: Should not be required reading for high schoolers
Review: While this book may be an important book, and perhaps a good selection for a college religion or history course, it is entirely inappropriate as required reading for freshmen in high school. I have never been able to understand, nor have my adult children, why the powers-that-be think that teenagers should be reading nothing but dark, depressing literature full of graphic violence. Depression is common enough in teenagers without encouraging it. Most teenagers at the age of 14 are not emotionally mature enough to process graphic violence.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This book may be short but it is so touching. You really get to see what it was like for someone to go though a concentration camp. Some of the details are disturbing but it gives you a good sense of history coming from someone who acctually lived through it. It doesn't take long to read but it is well worth it.
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Summary: A slim terrifying novel
Review: THis book i was required to read for my summer reading when i heard it was about teh hollacost ( i know i did'nt spell that right) i was like great just another depressing tale bout all these people getting killed. When i actually sat down to read it i realized it was soo much more than all the other acounts i'd read about the nazi death camps. The author actually lived through this and dealed with soo many struggles and was able to write all these horriable memories down. i know that if i , and it makes me realize how lucky i am that this would never happen in this day and age, had gone through what he did i would of given up very early on in his struggles. So if you are looking to read someones actual account of whats it was like to be in a concentraion camp read this heartbreaking story.
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Summary: An amazing book....
Review: This book was, for me, on the reading list of a misguided class in 'Western' relgions taught at Barnard College in NYC. Althought the professor was an awful teacher, her havingselected this book for that class almost redeems the entire experience.... What Weisel does in this book is amazing. In his autobiography, he presents a portrait of himself, his world, and the state of his religion. You can see that rites become meaningless (for him) when the suffering imposed by God becomes too much to bear. It is not that faith is gone necessarily, so much that faith has changed..... and this experience in this book will change you..... Please read this book: especially if the name Celia Deutch means anything to you. You'll need something to quash the innanity of that course entire....
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Summary: great book
Review: i read this book for english sophmore year and it was by far my favorite of all the books we read that year. The writing style is very direct, yet he also uses power language and writing tools that help you to actually see what was happening to him. I would absolutely reccomend this book.
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Summary: Moving, emotional eye-opener
Review: This book takes the reader on a fascinating and heartbreaking journey from the safety of the author's childhood home where rumors circulated of horrific death camps (and were dismissed as rantings of a madman) to the camps themselves and the fight for survival under the most extreme circumstances. The book is short but extremely powerful and has a profound affect on the reader long after the book is finished.
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