Night

Lu en classe avec mon cours d'anglais, ce livre est une merveille qui vous laisse des traces. Relatant le tragique passé de l'Auteur, chaque chapitre est un nouveau coup de poing. Certains passages sont difficiles à lire, non pas à cause de l'écriture. Mais bien de la réalité atroce qui y est décrite. À lire absolument.

I had read Eyewitness at Auschwitz by Filip Mueller. It was raw and had very tough content. Here, the book by Élie Wiesel was written in a very different emotional way. The words hit me almost physically and at one stage, I was crying. Both books are pretty fantastic but in less words than Filip Mueller, you feel the tragedy much more. I worked as à proofreader. Words very rarely reached my gut like that. I could not put either books down and ended up reading them both, one after the other. I will.never forget the book by Élie Wiesl. This is powerful stuff.

This is a new, 2006, translation by Marion Wiesel of Elie' first book, written in French, published in 1958, first appearing in English in 1960. It is the story of what happened to the Wiesel family in 1944 and 1945, before and during their deportation to Auschwitz, and mainly the story of Elie's and his father Shlomo's time in Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz III (Buna Monowitz). Tzipora (Elie's little sister) and his mother were immediately sent to the gas chambers in Auschwitz II (Birkenau). He had two older sisters who survived the camp. Elie's memories (he was 15 when deported) are powerful. His fear and amazement at the horrors he witnessed are palpable. He and his dad struggled together, trying to support one another in an environment they had never dreamed could exist. The chaos and violence of Auschwitz are clearly transmitted in the words of a terrified teenager. This is more than a book worth reading; it is a hugely powerful testament to how hatred travels and to its almost inevitable results. This new edition also contains Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.

Night - Cruelty beyond anything one can imagine. Terribly poignant. A fabulous writer. An incredible man.

This is a heart breaking, eye opening first hand account of a Holocaust survivor. Easy reading.