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Summary: A TRIBUTE TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT
Comment: This story will remain with me forever. We have heard it from the horse's mouth. it is not a myth as
many have claimed

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Summary: Wow. all I can say is wow....
Comment: I have just finished this slim book. I couldn't put it down. I feel numb after reading this. I
always wanted to learn more about the holocaust, and this is a painful stepping stone of
understanding what thousands of innocent people endured. Whilst reading about what had happened to
the children, I couldn't help but think of my own children and myself. You must read this book, I am
lost for words.

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Summary: Haunting
Comment: I'd heard some things about Elie Wiesel's "Night" over the years and, being interested in most
things Holocaust-related, I couldn't very well pass up the opportunity to read this memoir. I
expected to read about deplorable and inhumane treatment and conditions; I got that. What captured
my attention in Wiesel's story, however, was the relationship between him and his father. After
following the journey of their imprisonment together, seeing how they took care of each other,
making sure the other would make it, I was hooked. I understood that the likelihood of the father's
death was inevitable, but I still held out hope that this man, who'd survived as long as he had,
would at least have lived long enough to see his own liberation--though I daresay that he did. I
feel badly for Mr. Wiesel in his lingering guilt over his father's final moments.

After
reading "Night," I'm left with two haunting images: those babies and the "corpse... contemplating"
the author at the end. Thanks go to Elie Wiesel for having the courage back in 1958 to come forward
and bear witness, helping to open the door so countless other survivors could begin to tell their
stories, too.

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Summary: A book you simply must read or listen to and pass on
Comment: Elie Wiesel's account of the suffering and murder of the Jews during WWII cannot be explained or
even described, but I can only exhort you to experience the story through his words.
/>The audio version is expertly read/performed and seems to make the words and images more
moving.

This 2006 translation and published version contains the author's speech when
accepting the Nobel Peace prize in 1986 and an epilogue/preface to the translation after these many
years since its original printing.

This story serves as a witness and memory of the
horrible atrocities committed by the Nazis and their supporters and those who looked away. It also
testifies to the evil existing in our sphere, even the evil rearing its head in the daily news as we
have countries threatening to exterminate the Jews while nations ignore the threat and look the
other way.

You may think you don't want to read about or think about the holocaust and
the concentration camps, but after listening to this book, I think that you must.

Craig
Stephans, author of Shakespeare On Spirituality: Life-Changing Wisdom from Shakespeare's Plays

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Summary: You can't possibly read this book and yet you must
Comment: Night, as most of you know by now, is the story of a youth that is lived during the Holocaust. It
begins with the description of a thirteen year old's spiritual innocence. The boy, Elie is the
author and he writes at a twenty-year remove from the experiences that he retells.
You
probably know the story: it has been recounted in a hundred different settings. First some of the
Jews are rounded up to be shot in the forest. Then the freedom of the remaining ones is restricted.
The rumors and eyewitness accounts begin to circulate back to the Jews of this town or that, but no
one believes them. Then more are taken-this time to centralized death camps- and for most of those
who are transported, there is nothing but unspeakable cruelty and death.

At the
beginning of his story, Elie Wiesel tells us what his teacher told him: Every question possesses a
power that is lost in the answer. Wiesel is one of the few survivors of Auschwitz and Birkenau and
his questions are: 'where was God' and 'for what purpose did I survive?'
The second question
is answered in part in the sequel to Night, the claustrophobic Dawn. The first question is answered
slowly in Night itself: God was there in the suffering.

Business has taken me to
eastern europe several times in the last couple of years. Somehow, I find myself drawn to the
synagogues that remain intact in Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Pecs. They are now 'centers of Jewish
culture' or 'museums of Jewish life', relics of Judaism with no Jews alive anywhere near them.I
understand that there is even a museum at Berchtesgaden and I plan to visit it too.
Most of
these places are cleaned-up and have the feel of a Williamsburg or a Venice. They look like parts of
a world that stood still while everything else moved on. That is, of course, a lie. They are feeble
witnesses to the planned murder of the men, women and children who lived in them. But the buildings
have no voices and the story, particularly today, is heard less and less.

Night is the
voice of those people, the story that should be playing from those buildings and the source of
questions that need to be asked again.

--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE
IN WINE and the forthcoming novel bang-BANG from Kunati Books. ISBN 9781601640005