What was different to other books about the work in concentration camps was this was the first book that I read that talks about pickaxing. Unlike in other books they talk about how working in the gas chambers, in the ovens, etc. Also is the first book that read about a father and son being able to see each other unlike other that were separated from their families. The experience that Elie went the with the beatings, the beatings he saw, especial the beating that killed he father. He was afraid that they will beaten so he lay silently on his bed while his father was being beaten.
Its one of the most read book about the Holocaust along with Any Frank The Diary of a Young Girl and If This Is a Man by Primo Levi. The books speak about what they and other Jews suffered in the concentration camps. And shows of what could have not happen if this was stopped.
Every since the end of World War II he has visited Auschwitz a few times. He has in facted visited it once with Oprah Winfrey.
Oprah and Elie Weisel At Auschwitz Part 1
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 2
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 3
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 4
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 5
Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Part 6
It was interesting the way you did a review. Your writing makes me want to read this book....
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