Wednesday, March 27, 2013

A Holocaust Classic

     Night by Elie Wiesel is one of those books that is meant to be read by everyone.  There is something in the pages that is sure to pluck a heart string and if you don't tear up at least once while turning the pages, I can say for certainty that you have no soul.   You are a guest  behind the eyes of a teenage Elie while he is rounded up in the Jewish Ghettos and then packed into a train car and taken to a concentration camp.  It is a book that you read and wonder how something like this could have actually happened.  How is it possible that people were exterminated like a savage dogs. If the weren't murdered in the gas chambers  they we starved to the brink of death.  It is a shocking and heart breaking narrative of the day to day life of someone being held prisoner simply because they were Jewish. It is a book that reminds us that the Holocaust is something that we should never forget.