Night

There is something very wrong with people I'm afraid.

Night is a biographical first-person perspective of the persecution of Jews at concentration camps during WWII, written in a straightforward and simplistic fashion because of the youthful memories of the teenage narrator.

What should have been the time of his life growing up in a peaceful village, with studies, social events and family, turned into the biggest nightmare imaginable to man, and that's no exaggeration.

To be fair, there are more detailed accounts of concentration camp suffering out there, with Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning going a shade deeper into depravity and recounting events in more graphic detail, but how can this book be rated anything less than five stars?

Jewish people were squeezed into the corners of non-existence and almost eradicated, and as the Germans started to lose the war, slaughtered as cruelly as possible.

Strangely enough, when people tried to warn Jewish communities about the impending doom that was just around the corner, they didn't listen and carried on as before while war raged on all sides. I don't suppose that anyone in their wildest nightmares could have imagined what was going on behind barbed wire after a lengthy trip in a cattle cart.

I have to give this book five stars for what it represents.

There is no other option.

To this day, concentration camps are the biggest atrocity ever to happen to mankind and still within the living memory of some people (in 2025).

Read this book with care.

It's sad, shocking and full of triggers that may have you choking back the tears by the end.

Recommended because it's so important to remember what happened.