While many of us have been forced to read Holocaust books, it is good to sit back and really take a long, hard look at why.

Wiesel doesn’t dwell on events. He gives them to you in one-two punches. The starkness of the book’s language reflects the harshness of the situation.

Some people deny the Holocaust. They say that it never happened. They want so badly to not believe that humans can contain so much evil that they deny the atrocities committed.

Wiesel, along with other authors and survivors, strive for us to remember. While many genocides are still occurring today, perhaps with these accounts of survival and horror, we will be roused from our comfortable chairs and compelled to do something.