Night
(Elie Wiesel)
Elie Wiesel's experience during the holocaust makes a book one cannot put down. This book is shorter in length than most holocaust novels. I would recommend this book for teenagers or people who do not like to read lengthy stories. Elie's pain and confusion are splashed on every page, making the reader feel like a necessary intruder. He clearly wanted the reader to know about the Jewish people who did not survive the holocaust, to be a testifying witness of the horrors in the death camps.
As a teenager, Elie and his whole family were sent to Auschwitz. The young Jewish boy had been exposed to anti-semitism in the past, but nothing prepared him for forced deportation to the East. His father and mother were hopeful that in the East there would be a better life; a place where hard work would provide one's family with the basic needs for survival. Their hope faded fast on the crowded cattle car as people died of exposure and suffocation. The night screams of people not knowing their fate became almost unbearable. Elie and his family only wanted to arrive at their destination. Little did they know their train was headed to a death camp! No sane person could have imagined what surprises Auschwitz would hold. The Wiesel's first clue was the crematoria fire shooting into the night upon their arrival. In the confusion of getting off the train, Elie was sent to the showers, while the rest of his family were taken away. Elie survived Auschwitz, his family did not. After beatings, hard labor and a starvation ration, Elie was sent on a death march as the Russians approached the camp. The Nazis intended to leave no witness to Auschwitz. Elie walked across Poland into Germany in sub-zero tempratures. As the war was drawing to a close, the Allies liberated Buchenwald, the camp Elie ended up in. We all know how the holocaust ended, but sometimes forget everyone of the six million statistics were individuals. Elie Wiesel's personal journey reminds us very clearly that the people that died were not just statistics. These innocent people were sent to their deaths because they were Jews.
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