NIGHT by Elie Wiesel [1956]

BATB score: 8/10 🥹

Best to: Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel December 10th 1986; memoir written in 1956

Best as: Jews, memoir, concentration camps, Hitler, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Man Search For Meaning, Anne Frank

Best for: “How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” and aren’t we all doing the same right now

Best quotes: “One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”

“And I tell him (my younger self) that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And then I explain to him how naïve we were, that the world DID KNOW and REMAINED SILENT. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

NIGHT by Elie Wiesel [1956]