Night

I am reading a really good book. Night by Elie Wiesel. It is his story of surviving Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was a teenager in Transylvania, when his family was transported to the concentration camp in 1944. As I read it, I keep thinking that it's a novel. I have to keep reminding myself that this is a memoir. About a year ago, Oprah interviewed him as they walked through Auschwitz, it was far and away the best interview I've seen Oprah do in years. Oprah hardly speaks, she just listened to him. They walked through the grounds and buildings all alone in the snow.

In the book, he tells how even in 1944, up until he was in the camps and saw what was going on, nobody knew. Eventhough the Nazi's had killed so many people by this point, no one knew what was really happening. Wiesel says that they thought they were going to a place to be segregated from the non-Jewish people. He'd never heard of Auschwitz. It is a short story about 120 pages long, but it is such a big story. Go get it.