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There is nothing new here for those familiar with the Holocaust. The suffering is awful, but I was looking for some new insight. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any.
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I listened to this as an audiobook.
It is a memoir of Elie Wiesel's time from when he and his family were removed from their home, until the date of his liberation fro a Nazi concentration camp. I try to read a book set during time of World War I or WWII around Remembrance Day each year. The particular edition was translated by his wife, and at the end of the book, he explains why he had his wife do the translation to make the story stay as real to his own perceptions and ways of expressing hims ...more
It is a memoir of Elie Wiesel's time from when he and his family were removed from their home, until the date of his liberation fro a Nazi concentration camp. I try to read a book set during time of World War I or WWII around Remembrance Day each year. The particular edition was translated by his wife, and at the end of the book, he explains why he had his wife do the translation to make the story stay as real to his own perceptions and ways of expressing hims ...more
My favorite parts of this book were the telling of his relationship with his father and also his comments about how his experiences caused him to act in shameful ways that he never would have done before.
Feb 12, 2009
Meghan
marked it as to-read-q-z
