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fizz619's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
megachick's review against another edition
4.0
Surreal that even the people so close to the torture, having been warned of it, didn't want to believe it could happen. The depravity boggles the mind and you never want to think that it will happen to you. Wiesel's calm recollections of this time is deeply moving, and, of course, does nothing to lessen the tragedy of the events.
savleye's review against another edition
5.0
I read Night in highschool back in 2016, earlier this year in my multicultural literature course during my last semester of college, and I just finished reading it for a 3rd time. Night has remained to be one of those stories that stuck with me and is one that I've thought about years after reading it.
Wiesel was an excellent author and his recount of his experiences during WW2 are highly valuable in showing us that we cannot let history repeat itself and that these atrocities should remain in the past and never be made manifest again. It disgusts me that Israel and the IDF repeat the horrors detailed in this novel and use them against the Palestinian people, then turn around and claim antisemitism whenever they are criticized. Colonialism and genocide have no place in 2023 when we have so much history to learn from and should know better by now.
Wiesel was an excellent author and his recount of his experiences during WW2 are highly valuable in showing us that we cannot let history repeat itself and that these atrocities should remain in the past and never be made manifest again. It disgusts me that Israel and the IDF repeat the horrors detailed in this novel and use them against the Palestinian people, then turn around and claim antisemitism whenever they are criticized. Colonialism and genocide have no place in 2023 when we have so much history to learn from and should know better by now.
mudder17's review against another edition
5.0
There is no way I can do justice to this novel in a review. Everyone should absolutely read this new translation by his wife, as well as his Noble Peace Prize acceptance speech printed at the end. He also wrote a preface for this new translation that further describes his time in the camps and why he wrote this book and that we must all remember, and we must speak up when ANY person or group is oppressed in one way or another. This book is even more relevant today, as oppression is happening daily, not only in other parts of the world but also in our very own backyard.
I listened to this book being read by George Guidall and he is absolutely perfect for it. I've read many similar books about this period, as well as other books about internment camps, and this is among the best.
I listened to this book being read by George Guidall and he is absolutely perfect for it. I've read many similar books about this period, as well as other books about internment camps, and this is among the best.
adriannagrezak's review against another edition
5.0
I went through Holocaust-literature/memoir/history phases twice in my life - when I was around age 12-13 and again at age 16-17. I subsequently read seemingly endless amounts memoirs set in concentration camps to the point where the stories muddle together in my memory the same way a statistic of 6,000,000 deaths muddles individual tragic murders.
Point being, I read this book at 17 and was already very exposed to Holocaust history and literature. I'm sure some psychologist would label it as a unhealthy obsession since I was at a point where nothing shocked me anymore.
However, two significant scene stand out from Wiesel's Night that stabbed me in the heart as I read them. The first scene described SS soldiers executing Jews from villages and the protagonist witnesses the SS soldiers throwing infants and shooting them. The second scene opened up my eyes to a new side of the human soul: During the death marches, someone threw pieces of bread at the prisoners and they literally fought to the death over what seemed to be crumbs. One prisoner killed his own father to retrieve these meager morals as his father shouted, "I took this bread for you!"
Point being, I read this book at 17 and was already very exposed to Holocaust history and literature. I'm sure some psychologist would label it as a unhealthy obsession since I was at a point where nothing shocked me anymore.
However, two significant scene stand out from Wiesel's Night that stabbed me in the heart as I read them. The first scene described SS soldiers executing Jews from villages and the protagonist witnesses the SS soldiers throwing infants and shooting them. The second scene opened up my eyes to a new side of the human soul: During the death marches, someone threw pieces of bread at the prisoners and they literally fought to the death over what seemed to be crumbs. One prisoner killed his own father to retrieve these meager morals as his father shouted, "I took this bread for you!"
doyledays's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
This book is incredible. It's like The Diary of Anne Frank but from a boy's perspective in a camp, not hiding in an attic. It's told in an incredible way, but damn if you don't have to be in the right headspace.
laylarouse's review against another edition
5.0
Heartbreaking true story of a young boy taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp with his family. This version had a supplemental essay written by the author about the differences between the original (Yiddish) version and English translation which provided more saddening details.