Night by Elie Wiesel

" A slim volume of terrifying power" -The New York Times
I couldn't have said it better myself. Cousin Cindy turned me on to this book. It is a powerful, heartbreaking read. Don't skip the preface by the author, you will only regret it. The entire book is only 120 pages, so you have no excuse not to. In the bottom picture, taken at Buchenwald, Wiesel is pictured in the second row, seventh from the left taken on April 16, 1945, five days after the camp was liberated. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitx concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his dispair as a deeple observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. It is a testimony to what ahooened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.