This book did not make me cry. Like he says in the introduction – these words are empty when compared with the truth of what it was to be there.
Its nice that people reading this book profess to have some understanding – but until you are in line and next for the furnace – YOU - are next… you cannot understand.
The book is Definitely worth the read. I just wish the people reading could also see how these events are repeated daily in places around the world – and all this overflowing of “understanding” is not having any impact on the people who are alive today- standing next in line at the “chiminey” of our times.

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.

I would recommend this book to anyone. It is short, but very moving and at times blunt(in a good way, though). Wiesel doesn’t sugar-coat anything, and it gives a REAL good hard look into this terrible, terrible blemish in history. I have never read such an effective, heartfelt, amazing story as Night. Elie Wiesel is my hero.

This book is very brief, but very effective at relaying the horror of the Holocaust. It is unbelievable how cruel & heartless human beings can be.

this is one of those books everyone should read at least once in their lives. we mustn’t forget what humans are capable of.

I think it’s important to read a book like this. I had seen Schindler’s List, but that did not contain as many scenes within the actual concentration camps, which is the most important situation to see.

Wiesel treats the topic beautifully, not only by expressing his hate for the SS officers, but also by showing that the oppression corrupted some of the Jewish people, turning them into selfish people while in the camps. Oppression isn’t as simple as killing a people; it is undermining their faith in each other and tearing apart the human community from inside.

Wiesel himself is fairly pessimistic about God and life, and I think rightly so. This is a first-hand account of how human inconsideration can shatter a person’s psychology.

Important read.

A simple direct telling of the horrible depths to which human beings can sink. Selection, the burning of live infants and small children, and yet the enduring hopes of those not selected to survive one more day. I’m going to take my daughter to the holocaust museum. She is old enough to know. I look at her and my son and wonder if it were us, would I have urged patience in disbelief of or died trying to resist the obvious intent of the SS.

I read this book within two hours; I was scared before to read it because no offense, the Holocaust just scares me; but sitting down and reading this book just jade me real glad that I did; Elie Wiesel went through a war and being held in a concentration camp all before he finished his teenaged years; Can you imagine anyone of today’s teens going through such a thing?? interesting and very profound.