Nandi C. (SavvyBamalady) reviewed on 3/1/2006 + 29 more book reviews

I read this book in a few hours; Elie Wiesel was a teenager in Transylvania; They thought that they were safe from Nazi oppression; And for the majority of the war, they were. In 1941, all foreign Jews were taken, and ultimately killed; one lone man somehow lived to tell the tale and begged the other Jews to take heed; unfortunately they didn't. Until 1944, when they were at first stripped of their basic freedoms, then put in a ghetto, and then placed in cattle cars bound for Auschwitz; Once there, Wiesel saw the last of his mother and sister; His father and he made it through the "selections" and went to another camp less notorious and stayed until the opposing armies started advancing and they marched to another camp where his father ultimately died and he was eventually liberated; Very interesting,haunting but good book;

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