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Summary: Night (Oprah's Book Club)
Comment: Excellent read. Should be a text in our schools. Knowledge and comprehension of the past can
enable our progeny to make our world better and safer. This book tells what has happened and the
situation that needs to be avoided.

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Summary: Will help you understand the atrocities in Nazi concentration camps
Comment: Heard NIGHT, read and written by Elie Wiesel--his memoir
(and first book) of his experiences
in Nazi concentration
camps.

You won't fully comprehend that atrocities that took
place
during that time, but you will at least begin to understand
them better . . . in
addition, you'll find yourself wondering
along with the author: Why did God allow these
monstrous
events to occur?

There's not easy answer to this question in NIGHT . .
. however,
in thinking about it, you will come to a greater appreciation
of all that you
do have in life.

I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: A powerful read !! A personal saga of survival against all odds
Comment: Elie Wiesel's book, "Night" was one of the first books I had read on the Holocaust when I was in
high school back in the mid 1970s. His painful and searing account of the unspeakable horror, known
as the Holocaust is the single most defining event of the 20th century.

The lessons of
"Night" are as relevant today as they were when the Holocaust occurred and will be relevant as long
as the world continues to exist. Within the hearts of mankind is both good and evil, love and hate
and as long as hatred and evil can stir the hearts of men to commit such atrocities and engage in
such barbaric tortures and mass murders then the lessons of "Night" will never be obsolete or
outdated.

It is incumbent on all those who have learned the lessons of "Night" to speak
out against all injustices and hatred aimed at specific groups of people. I live amongst many
Holocaust survivors, and the prevailing sentiment is that silence equals death. Had more people had
the courage to actively oppose Hitler and pressure the free world to do so, perhaps the course of
history would have been irrevocably changed.

There are others who are devoutly
observant Orthodox Jews, whose faith never dimmed during those nightmare years and credit their
survival to the hand of G-d. Their view is that anti-semitism is a permanent part of and endemic to
our society as it has been since time immemorial and no efforts towards stemming this insidious evil
would have helped. There is no question that this view also has a great deal of validity and
credibility as well in our times.

This of course does not release us from the
obligation to fight evil and hatred. For in the end, it is we who will suffer for not speaking out
when we could and it is we who will suffer for not exhausting every effort to thwart movements
predicated on mass extermination of any segment of our society.

For those who believe
in a Higher Power, we must believe that there will be an accounting and reckoning of our deeds and
misdeeds on this earth and we will be asked by the Heavenly Court where we were and what we did to
prevent the shedding of innocent blood. Their are sins of commission and sins of omission, to which
we are held equally responsible. Apathy and fear and reluctance to act are not valid excuses. Let us
not be guility of remaining silent and feigning ignorance when we have the ability to voice our
outrage and indignation at those who would destroy our brothers and sisters.

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Summary: storm of storms
Comment: Though the word 'Holocaust' has become the most common cipher for one of mankind's greatest crimes,
many Jews and other rememberers of 1939-1945 object to the borrowing of this biblical term to name
Hitler's mass murder.

Why? Because a 'holocaust' is a burnt offering that satisfies
God. Who, it is asked, can think that the extermination of European Jewry served *any* purpose, let
alone the pacification of an angry deity?

Elie Wiesel, survivor of the Shoah, is known
as a Nazi hunter. It would be more accurate to call him a Rememberer. Hunting down Nazis and
bringing them in from cushy retirement in the four corners of the world is best understood as a
subset of Wiesel's conviction that silence in the face of such barbarity - practical denial of its
destructive malevolence in space and time - is the greatest sin.

Night is not silence.
It is dark, eloquent, hateful memory. It is sophisticated proclamation that measureless horror took
place, even if we can neither mark its precise shape nor comprehend how a cultivated continent could
welcome, nurture, and implement evil's Endlösung.

Night is the dark story of a young
Rumanian Jewish boy's loss of nearly everything save his capacity to remember as human beings do.
Wiesel was that young boy. In adulthood, he will not allow his readers to sidestep the savagery that
took his family and so many of his people from him.

Night falls darkly on those who
remember. It blots out the tepid dusk of forgetfulness. It is more terrible than amnesia's cold
comforts.

Yet hope resides, barely visible, within it.

Choose to read this
tale of the Night.

Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the best...
Comment: Its been a long time since I have read a good book. This book touched me in ways I never thought it
would. My heart ached as I read, my mind drifted in time, and my eyes had opened up wider. I am
greatful for who and what I have now more than I have been. I treasure each day, as if it were my
last. Thank you.