He is obviously familiar with some of the important Jewish prayers like Kaddish (the prayer said for the dead). Guidall had the inflection, pain and weariness in his voice that really brought it home. Listening to this book instead of reading it literally brought Elie Wiesel right into your heart. Narrator George Guidall brings life to the book. It shows the depths of human despair and the height of out of control power. From being ripped from his home to being separated from his mother and sister to caring and feeling responsible for his father in his journey from concentration camp to concentration camp. Elie Wiesel wrote the most haunting account of his young life.
I cried, I thought about it throughout the day, I dreamt about it in the night. I don't remember ever being so physically and emotionally caught up in any book like I was with this one. Recounting the evils at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel's enduring classic of Holocaust literature raises questions of continuing significance for all future generations: How could man commit these horrors, and could such an evil ever be repeated?
Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible truth sink in. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Told through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet unfolds with a heart-wrenching inevitability. Night is an unmistakably autobiographical account of the author's own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany's death camps. This definitive edition features a new translation from the original French by Wiesel's wife and frequent translator, Marion Wiesel. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night.
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