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n "His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people"n
I really don't know how to review this book. Sitting here under a soft blanket holding a warm cup of coffee who am I to critique the story about someone's unbearable pain or the unimaginable horrors suffered by millions . This book perhaps shows the lowest the humanity could have stooped. While reading I couldn't stop asking ..Why ?Just why ?
n "Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."n
As a Nobel Peace prize winner,Ellie Weisel is probably one of the most famous survivor of Holocaust .This is a harrowing story of his survival where we follow a 15 year old Elie. He and his family is taken from a ghetto in Hungary to Aushwitz death camp. Over the course of this story we see him being transferred from one camp to another barely surviving each time.
He didn't try to write some long tale of his ordeal. He wrote a very straight forward account of what happened and I think that makes it even more powerful. Its a very short book but on emotional level a very very difficult read. Every few pages I would just pause and think how is this possible. His survival is nothing short of a miracle. Its shocking, its extremely painful to read at times but this is a necessary read for everyone.
n "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time"n
I really don't know how to review this book. Sitting here under a soft blanket holding a warm cup of coffee who am I to critique the story about someone's unbearable pain or the unimaginable horrors suffered by millions . This book perhaps shows the lowest the humanity could have stooped. While reading I couldn't stop asking ..Why ?Just why ?
n "Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."n
As a Nobel Peace prize winner,Ellie Weisel is probably one of the most famous survivor of Holocaust .This is a harrowing story of his survival where we follow a 15 year old Elie. He and his family is taken from a ghetto in Hungary to Aushwitz death camp. Over the course of this story we see him being transferred from one camp to another barely surviving each time.
He didn't try to write some long tale of his ordeal. He wrote a very straight forward account of what happened and I think that makes it even more powerful. Its a very short book but on emotional level a very very difficult read. Every few pages I would just pause and think how is this possible. His survival is nothing short of a miracle. Its shocking, its extremely painful to read at times but this is a necessary read for everyone.
n "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time"n