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To say that Elie Wiesel's book is moving is an understatement. It left me with all sorts of emotions. First of all, I should be grateful to have my family around me, and stop complaining about trivial things. Secondly, life is a gift and should be lived well. Thirdly, we must never forget the past lest we repeat it. Fourthly, human beings are capable of showing incredible reserves of fortitude and strength, as exhibited by Elie and his father in the concentration camps and arduous journeys they faced together. (By contrast, I often wonder how I'm going to make it through the day after getting out of my comfortable bed at three in the morning to change a nappy.) Books like this can only help to inspire others who themselves are going through genuine anguish and hardship.The book left me with an additional, powerfully emotive thought. As an evangelical Christian who believes that Jesus is the only way to God, the implications of the narrative that I've been taught would consign the vast mass of Jews who perished in the Holocaust to an everlasting hell. In other words, first Hitler's torture chambers; then God's torture chambers - the narrative being that those who don't come to faith in Jesus as Messiah in this life are eternally lost.There's something fundamentally wrong with this narrative. I don't have all the answers, but prefer to think in terms of restitution and reconciliation between the oppressor and the victim, the tormentor and the tormented. If not in this life, certainly in the next. I hope with all my heart that Elie Wiesel sees his family again. The parts where he writes of his little sister, and his relationship with his father, are the most deeply moving in the book.

Excellent first hand description of one of the many grim episodes in recent history.In western minds the holocaust seems to eclipse the mass murders attributed to Stalin and Mao Zedong (both of whom murdered greater numbers), not to mention the millions who have died due to political mistakes such as the partition of India and the cumulative horrors of nasty little wars in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia and China's annexation of Tibet and Hong Kong and the incarceration in concentration camps of millions of Uyghurs. Perhaps the atrocities inflicted on the Jews and the author of this book occurred closer to home and have received more attention in movies, news media and books?Elie Wiesel describes how, in spite of repeated warnings, he and his family simply didn't believe that Jews were being rounded up and exterminated. Even when the Gestapo arrived and began lodging nearby, no one believed that the Germans posed a danger; they were initially charming. Elie and his family ignored rumours about the camps. Even when the family was ordered to leave their home, they rejected offers from an old maid to hide them from the Gestapo. They could never have believed what lay ahead.While witnessing atrocities inflicted by the Germans on an industrial scale, Elie, a deeply religious man, is forced, time and again, to reconcile his faith with what he was experiencing.Having read this book, I am surprised how ruthless the current Jews are towards the Palestinians and it is perhaps time that the international community woke up to the ethnic cleansing being perpetrated not only in Israel, but in Xinjiang, China; millions of Uyghurs removed from their homes and taken to concentration camps in the same way that the Gestapo removed Elie and his family from their home.Elie suggests that it is when people ignore what is happening that events like the holocaust occur.

Good little book - short - interesting lesson re false optimism

This is a book everyone should read at least once. Its one man's personal account of his time during the war at concentration camps. It is so well written and descriptive you can immerse yourself within the storyline. Absolutely heart breaking and eyeopening all at once.

This book was very good to learn about the history of the WWII. I really loved this book. You need to do an exegetical analysis of this book to fully understand, and also, you can't understand it by reading it only once.Amazing. Absolutely amazing!

Great book portraying great emotions. holocaust was one of the worst incidents that has happened in humanity. Breaks my heart to read how it transformed and traumatized the author . It's a must read and no one should every forget what happened in the past . Never again .

Un acogedor relato sobre la estupidez humana y la animalidad que vive en cada uno de nosotros, sin embargo, en cada página se muestra el corazón de la humanidad, lleno de esperanza, de ilusiones que aún lejanas defienden lo más valioso que poseemos: la vida.

Fast delivery, the book in good shape

Com relação a entrega, eu recebi a compra após 6 dias, bem rápido para um pedido de Mato Grosso. O livro chegou em ótimo estado. Entrega exemplar!O livro é simplesmente fantástico. Estava muito ansioso para lê-lo e não me decepcionei. Elie Wiesel conta a sua história como sobrevivente do Holocausto ao mesmo tempo que emprega uma delicadeza na escrita. O tema abordado é obviamente pesado, mas muito importante. Fiquei horrorizado com os relatos de Wiesel e muitas vezes refletia sobre até que ponto os humanos são capazes de chegar. Em suma, é um livro recomendadíssimo para quem deseja ver uma visão mais pessoal a respeito dos horrores do Nazismo, além praticar inglês devido a uma linguagem simples e agradável.