A grabbing autobiographic novel related to the Holocaust… It is surely a Best Seller or it has the potential of being one. The vivid setting and the growing suspense are key points of the first chapter. It is a fast-reading book due to the clearness and simplicity of the vocabulary. The perfect testimony other than the Dairy of Anne Frank gives an excellent alternative to feel or imagine a bit of the tension that Elie as a teenager lived. It cannot be compared to the real experiences, but the way he expresses them makes one create a movie mentally. So far this moment the Wiesel family is entering the train to their unknown fate. I wish the Wiesel family had opened the window on time for them to escape. It seems that this novel is very interesting moreover real. The sense of anguish he puts on the first chapter changes that traumatic experience into something human, and artistic up to an extent. The pain he suffers when he sees the deserted ghetto, or the helplessness when facing the Gestapo or the Hungarian police clubbing old men and women are feelings that not only he has felt. They are feelings of a society that almost disappeared. The preface of the book is powerful because the arguments he presents as a gear for prevention of catastrophe, and the study of the Holocaust in terms of memory.
Mr. Crow: Such beautiful words... but you know, the Holocaust has not been the only genocide and case of segregation in the world. Perhaps it is one of the worst, but the Rwanda genocide, the Turkish and Armenian genocides are also worthy of mentioning. I know it is time to discuss holocaust, but it does not harm anybody to know a bit more of others. I invite you all viewer's to research if in your country has there been any genocide or similar cases? If there is one think how it has affected the collective memory of children who suffered its consequences...
