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This memoir is heartbreaking and moving and evokes so much emotion.

This is the book to start with on your world war 2 history journey.

A difficult book to read.

I have avoided reading books on the holocaust because I have a sensitive personality.

Glad I read it.

the question still remains how could this have happened? How can some say that they had no clue?

It is important that we never forget.

4,5 stars.

This is a good and extremely well-written book about a single teen with his dad surviving Holocaust as a Jew. Sent into a working camp then extermination camp the last weeks of the war.

It seriously lacks details. When he is freed we get no info about what happened in the camp. He describes he went to the hospital for weeks. And how was it? How did the Americans act and behave? How was it like getting back into civil life? How did you find your remaining family members and did he visit Israel and see it getting constructed? What does he think about safety of Jews post the war or Nazis? What does he feel about Germany overall?

It's an A to B story. He lives in a town, gets imprisoned, suffers, then is free. That's it. I guess more details are found in other books. If you want suffering start to finish this is the book. He does describe even small events in the camp and the extreme conditions. It's all interesting to understand by itself. All should read the book, but for historians it will feel a tad short and empty on info.

A book that calls out to be re-read every so often. Elie Wiesel's experience in the Nazi concentration camps is almost a right of passage to understanding the human condition