Summary

This book written by, Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, is a true story about Elie when he was in his teens being in the Holocaust. It starts out with his family living their normal lives, not believing that the Germans were coming or that they would never see their families every again. They were first sent to Ghettos. Once they left the ghettos, Elie was sent to three different concentration camps: Auschwitz, Buna (a subcamp of Auschwitz), and then they were marched to Buchenwald. In the camps Eliezer, the boy portraying Elie, is tested on his faith. All this cruel stuff that he witness, made him wonder how there could even be a God. He sees things a teen boy should never see; babies being thrown into a pit of fire, or thrown up in the air as targets to shoot at.  When you read his book, you get a feeling of what a innocent boy had going through in the harsh times of the Holocaust. Being separated from his mother and sister, having to watch innocent people die; even his father dying, are some of the major things he went through during that tragic time. This book will have anyone tearing up from beginning to end with all the horrid details, and a look at the Holocaust in a different perspective than in the history books everyone reads.