Night is the most beautiful book i have ever read while being educational and interesting, and in the following lines you’ll learn exactly why.
I’ve always knew about life being hard in concentration camps but “Night” smack the readers with the reality of it all. After reading this i’ve learned that all jewish men and women sent to work camps had tattoos with their numbers, so not only were they treated awfully but their names were also completely neglected. So when calling them they would not say things like “hey Roger how was your day” but instead “45567 fetch me a cup of water”. I think that this was a complete violation of rights. I also learnt the weirdest thing ever, I myself can’t believe it. The slogan for Auschwitz (The worst camp ever) was “WORK IS FREEDOM”, now even as i’m writing this i’m slowly shaking my head. At first when someone hears such a thing they would probably lash out at someone for saying a thing like that, but after thinking this slogan actually makes a lot of sense because the true meaning behind freedom is not being freed and not imprisoned but instead the real meaning is that life is is a prison and death is freedom.
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Knowing that the information that I was getting was not coming from a historian who probably does not care about the holocaust but instead a man who went through all of what he is writing about is oddly satisfying. If this was coming from some random person who just studied the holocaust and decided to write a book about it, the author's words could have never penetrated in my soul like they