What do you think about Elie Wiesel's Holocaust experience book, "Night"?

I recently finished reading a sobering book called “Night” by Noble Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel. Many of you are probably familiar with this book, which is about Wiesel’s experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Buna concentration camps during World War II.

“Night” was first released in 1958, and the edition I read is just over 100 pages long. The novel was originally written in Yiddish, and was translated into English in 1960 by Stella Rodway. Over the past 50 years, it’s been translated into over 30 languages.

Books like this, while hard to read at times, are valuable. They remind us that people are capable of anything – astounding evil and astounding goodness – and that these cruelties could be repeated if good people stand by and do nothing.

While reading this book, I found myself getting so pissed off that I had to put it down for a while. To imagine and empathize with what these Jewish families went through at the hands of the Nazis makes my blood boil. If you put yourself and your family in the place of what these prisoners and survivors experienced, it’ll make you more thankful for the world we live in today. From start to finish, the book only reaffirmed my belief that WWII was the worst thing to have ever occurred in the history of mankind.

U.S. forces liberated Wiesel in 1945 when he was 16 years old. A native of Romania, he went on to successful careers as a journalist, professor and political activist. He won the Noble Peace Prize in 1986 and is still alive today at the ripe old age of 86.

Wiesel has been a prolific writer and not only has dozens of nonfiction books and novels to his credit, but also plays, cantatas and children’s books. What follows are complete lists of his nonfiction books and novels.

Nonfiction:

1. And the World Remained Silent (1956)

2. Night (1958)

3. One Generation After (1970)

4. A Jew Today (1978)

5. Images from the Bible (1980)

6. Against the Silence (1985)

7. The Six Days of Destruction (1988)

8. Evil and Exile (1988)

9. A Journey of Faith (1990)

10. From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences (1990)

11. A Passover Haggadah (1993)

12. All Rivers Run to the Sea (1994)

13. Memoir in Two Voices (1995)

14. And the Seas is Never Full (1996)

Novels:

1. Dawn (1960)

2. Day (1961)

3. The Town Beyond the Wall (1962)

4. The Gates of the Forest (1964)

5. A Beggar in Jerusalem (1968)

6. The Oath (1973)

7. The Testament (1980)

8. The Fifth Son (1983)

9. Twilight (1987)

10. The Forgotten (1989)

11. The Judges (1999)

12. The Time of the Uprooted (2003)

13. A Mad Desire to Dance (2006)

14. The Sonderberg Case (2008)

15. Otage (2010)

In the end, how many of you have read “Night”? What did you think about it? Have you read any of Wiesel’s other books? Which of those would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.