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The Harsh Law of Memory

The Accident by Elie Wiesel

March 15, 2026 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

“I knew that our suffering changes us. But I didn’t know it could also destroy others.” “I told him what I had never told anyone. My chidhood, my mystic dreams, my religious passions, my memories of German concentration camps, my belief that I was now just a messenger of the dead among the living.” Content warnings: death, suicide, sexual assault In Elie Wiesel’s The Accident, protagonist Eliezer is a survivor of the Holocaust, where he lost his grandmother, mother, and others in the death camps. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: elie wiesel

esmemoria's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: elie wiesel ·
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Helped define what the Holocaust feels like to most who didn’t go through it

Night by Elie Wiesel

May 29, 2023 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I’m not really sure how to review Night by Elie Wiesel. It’s a seminal fictionalized Holocaust memoir that’s been taught for decades in schools across the world. Along with Schindler’s List, it’s probably defined how I’ve thought of the Holocaust for most of my life. Reading it again didn’t really bring with it any new information or perspective – though it lands different reading it as a father compared to reading it as a teenager, like I did the first time. For something to indelible, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: elie wiesel, night, the Holocaust

ingres77's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: elie wiesel, night, the Holocaust ·
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Two books I never read in high school

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Night by Elie Wiesel

November 29, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

 November has been a sucky month in a sucky year, and on a recent trip back east for a family situation, I found that the collection of science fiction stories I brought with me for distraction just wasn’t cutting it. Unable to focus, I did the only sane thing and decided to binge-watch seasons 2 and 3 of The Office. After Michael Scott restored the humors in my brain, I raided my sister’s bookcase, where I found a number of books that have been languishing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr12, elie wiesel, high school reading, Holocaust, KimMiE", nonconformity, Robert Cormier, young adult fiction

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr12, elie wiesel, high school reading, Holocaust, KimMiE", nonconformity, Robert Cormier, young adult fiction ·
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Against Forgetting

April 17, 2018 by Jen K 4 Comments

Every once in a while I discover odd gaps in the books I have read, and Night was one of those. Since I learned to read German before I learned to read English, and spent K-7 in the German school system, I usually tend to assume I have read certain childhood classics or novels commonly read in middle school, but under a German name where the translated title doesn’t quite match up.  This was especially the case with the book, Night, which blurs the line […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: #memoir, elie wiesel, Holocaust, night, survivor

Jen K's CBR10 Review No:58 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: #memoir, elie wiesel, Holocaust, night, survivor ·
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

May 22, 2017 by tillie 4 Comments

I will not review this as a book. This is not a book. It may be published as a book. It has a title, an author. A cover with neat little blurbs on the back from Oprah Winfrey, from the New York Times. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE written on the front. All of it seems garish compared to what is inside. This is a witness. “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” Wiesel describes his life before […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: elie wiesel, history, Mathildehoeg, night, Second World War, World War 2

tillie's CBR9 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: elie wiesel, history, Mathildehoeg, night, Second World War, World War 2 ·
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