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Summary: Leaves you heartbroken
Comment: I want to thank Mr. Weisel for writing this book and sharing his experience. As you read this you
will find yourself thinking this couldn't have happened! How could anyone be so cruel? How could
so many people be so cruel? Who were these men who could throw live babies into a fire? Were
normal people before the war? How did they live with themselves? What happens to humanity when
the insanity of war takes hold?
I avoided reading this book as I knew I would be left with a
feeling of dismay. However, I did read it as I felt rather obligated to. I can't say I enjoyed it,
but it isn't a book meant to be enjoyed. The lesson....we must remember. We must not close our
eyes in complacency. It is still going on all around us....on our earth community. Insanity is
still alive and well.
To all the survivors of the atrocities of human cruelty, my heart goes
out to you. I do what I can and encourage everyone else to do the same.
Peace on
Earth....good will towards men.

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Summary: Such Tremendous Force
Comment: What can I possibly say that hasn't already been said? This account of Eli Wiesel's experience in
the concentration and death camps of Nazi Germany is horrifying and tears at the heart. The reader
easily understands his questions of guilt and anger, and yet, it is also a story of triumph,
ultimately. Others have expressed their thoughts better than I, but I feel this work should be
required reading in every school. It is that important. And excellent work that is read within a few
hours. Though it will change you.

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Summary: Night by Elie Weisel
Comment: This book is a page turner in that this mans journey through hell and back is just unfathomable.
God bless him! This gentle soul, is just an amazing writer in which he can take his readers along
a virtual life path in order to relive his life from when he was a young boy until the end of World
War II. The deception that hid in plain sight was what really took me back. Who could ever have
even imagined that mankind be so evil. Hell on earth doesn't come close to describing what this
yound boy went through. It makes one think. Mr. Elie Weisel has that special gift and quality as a
writer in describing his inner most thoughts and feelings as he somehow some way survives it all.
What an amazing book. Thank you.

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Summary: Long Day's Journey Into the Dark of Night
Comment: The book was particularly poignant being told by someone who had to endure the pain of loss, and
disregard for his family. Being separated from his mother and sister was exceedingly difficult. But,
having to watch his father being brutalized and treated as less than human had to be even worse. At
an age when we see our parents as being strong enough to take on the world for us, and keep us safe
from those who might want to harm us, it is even more devastating when we see our father, of all
people, emasculated before our eyes. The reality of being totally powerless strips away all our
defenses.
Elie has to deal with seemingly losing the same feeling of protection from God. He
has always trusted God implictly and thought his greatest desire would always be to serve and honor
this God. He didn't realize in his youthful simplicity that circumstances of life could compromise
this seemingly settled relatonship.
What ultimately strikes us is man's inhumanity to man. We
must always be vigilant. Unfortunantly, we always want to think it will not happen again. If we just
give in a little, if we can appease our adversaries perhaps they will leave us alone. No one really
wants to cause us harm, do they? The stark reality, at any age, is that for whatever reason, there
are those who simply have no regard for others and will have what is ours if we offer it to them as
an offering of appeasement, or if they have to take it from us no matter the consequenses.
And
what ultimately is worse? Loss of life, loss of dignity or loss of illusions? Each are equally
devastating. Perhaps Elie was right, grabbing the electirc fence would be the easy way out. No one
should ever be put in that position.
That Elie should win a Nobel Peace Prize is the ultimate
vindication. Wouldn't it be wonderful if his story could help
eradicate the perverse behavior
he, his family, and millions have endured, and continue to endure? Would to God it would even make a
substantial impact.
Regardless, the stories must be told, and heard. I loved this book, and
the forward by Francois Mauriac. Along with the "Diary of Anne Frank" and Corrie ten Boom's "The
Hiding Place" we do hear the stories we don't want to, but must, hear.

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Summary: 'It's over. God is no longer with us.'
Comment: These tragically pitiful words summon the inordinate power of this small book NIGHT by Elie Wiesel.
Everyone knows the story of the Nazi concentration camps: No one knows the story of the Nazi
concentration camps. Novels, films, photographs, poems, speeches, tours of sites all try to give
some idea of the gripping tragedy of the genocide and the deplorable conditions that befell the
victims of the camps, but nothing does it as well as this deeply moving account by Wiesel. />
The reasons are many. Not only does Wiesel tell his story in the simplest of language
without cluttering the facts with gory details: the facts themselves are atrocious enough and when
told through the words of a 16-year old boy who entered the camps from his life as a spiritually
devout Jew in Sighet, Transylvania that gradually metamorphosed into a challenged believer who felt
God and mankind had deserted both his ailing father and him, the impact is overwhelming.
/>Wiesel's writing is at once eloquent and harrowing and his descriptions of survival through the
camps at Auschwitz, Buna, Birkenau, and Buchenwald searingly become imprinted on our minds. Every
reader may think these facts are redundant but they can never be retold often enough. Even as we
read this book there are occurrences in various places throughout the globe TODAY that resurrect the
atrocities herein described. And in reading the Nobel Peace Prize statement by Elie Wiesel that
closes this book we are bound to fight against the hate that allows such exploding carbuncles. />
This is a book that should be read by everyone, globally. In it lies our only hope that
history will not continue repeating itself. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Grady Harp, July 06