Night, by Elie Wiesel Options

[freeridefight]

Night by Elie Wiesel is a powerful book about a jewish child and his family caught up in a concentration camp. It is an autobiography. We are reading it for class, and I thought it would be a great book to talk about. Here is a few links:

The book's site
Wikipedia on Night
Elie Wiesel's Bio

I believe he choose not to talk about the expierence for twelve years, and if you've read the book, you can understand why. I couldn't believe it was all true.

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sorry, it was ten years.
Anyway, comments?

[freeridefight]

Damn that was him? I didn't make the connection. That was so horrible when he showed the gas chambers. In the book does he even mention them?

[karmakiller]

Damn that was him? I didn't make the connection. That was so horrible when he showed the gas chambers. In the book does he even mention them?

Yeah, he really knows how to pull an emotional cord in people.

I don't think he went into detail about them. He explained how they seperated the women and children from the men and the woman and children would walk right into the gas chambers. There was a man there who told him and his father how to lie about their ages to avoid the gas. I've seen quite a few photos, and a couple years ago I came across a website that had pictures of "Canada" from Auschwitz. "Canada" was basically the place where they would pile in the belongings of the prisoners... they were are a rate of 20,000 a day and they would sort them out... the Germans tried to distory the camp but tagged belongings from "Canada" still serviced in antique shops throughout Germany until the 80's. I think that would've been so bittersweet to work at one of the places that recieved those tagged item so many years after the war.

Long post. Eep.