The Story of Ellie Wiesel, The Night

The Story, Night was a very impacting story on a young Jewish boys time in the Holocaust. In this book it showed opstilces and tough encounters that this boy, Ellie Wiesel had to overcome. This book has opened my eyes and shown me what it really took to survive the horific event, the Holocaust.

The Story of Ellie Wiesel, The Night

Biography

“I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?”

"To forget the dead would to akin to kill them a second time."

“One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.”

“Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”

"In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh. It ust have been midnight. we had arrived. In Birkenau."