Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Night by Elie Wiesel

170 reviews

rachelbaack's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

Summary:  This is the heartbreaking and autobiographical story of Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy who was forced into a concentration camp during World War II. The book reveals the horrors of the Holocaust and the emotional toll that it took on the Nazis’ victims.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide

sophiaanderson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sbgage's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

fae93's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

0.25

This was a helpful book assigned as required reading in high school. However, the author is a Zionist - he was already attempting colonization in 1946 and the genocide (Nakba) occured in 1948. There are other survivors like those in Jewish Voice for Peace who have not become the oppressor in their freedom. It's really sickening how awful this man is and has tainted the book too much for me to ever recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Torture, and War

karly_ackley's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

sadiesupernova's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I am so drained after reading this. Such an important book but so incredibly difficult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

strwbrymatcha's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

spinesinaline's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

4.0

Clearly a very personal and haunting story. I had known of this book for a while and I'm glad to have finally read it. For a firsthand account of the horrors of the holocaust, I'd recommend this book but really review the content warnings first. Seeing his attitudes towards Palestine in the epilogue is more haunting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Murder, and War

mowee50's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Very intense story about the holocaust. Reads very quickly but mostly because it’s really good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Murder

catiecat2_5's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racism, Torture, Police brutality, Death of parent, and War