Night by Elie Wiesel is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. It is the horrifying story of what one man endured, when he was but a teenager, during the Holocaust. Straight from the beginning, a mournful tone is set: one of pain, loss and death.
“Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
‘Where is God now?
And I heard a voice within me answer him:
‘Where is He? Here He is – He is hanging here on this gallows…’
That night the soup tasted of corpses”
The writing in this book is extremely potent, and it being a memoir makes it all the more powerful, and horrifying. When a book is written like this, it makes a tragedy such as the Holocaust seem much more real, as opposed to something we just read about in history books. To read a personal account of what a single person had to endure is a truly mortifying thing: but one we must do, to understand the suffering, and prevent anything such as this from occurring again.