Review: The Dawn by Elie Wiesel Challenges: Read the World, Europe (hosted over on habitica.com ) This is the second book in the trilogy that starts with Night (review here ). The first book detailed the author’s experiences as a young boy in the German concentration camps during the war and this book takes place a few years after that. This seems to be a fictionalized continuation of the story. Elisha has come to Palestine and joined the Israeli resistance fighting for a free Israel. We follow him during one night when he is awaiting dawn when he must execute a man as part of the freedom struggle. The book is quite short but it still packs a punch. We follow the musings of this young boy, who has literally been through hell, when he is about to be on the other side of the battle. He has some moral struggles, but doesn't really seem to question the fact that he will do it in the end. He seemed to acknowledge both that he had been brainwashed by his comra...
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Review: The Night by Elie Wiesel
Challenges: Bingo: Night by Elie Wiesel Diversity Bingo 2017: Jewish Main Character This book is set during World War II and our protagonist is Eliezer, a young boy living in Transylvania with his family. Soon the Nazis make their arrival and Eliezer and his family are first forced to move into a ghetto with other Jews and then they are moved to a camp. This book is told from the perspective of Eliezer, and we follow his struggle with faith as these harrowing things unfold. He started as a devout Jewish scholar who wanted nothing more than to study the Jewish mysteries, but at the end of the book he is deeply questioning his faith. This book is quite short but very powerful and while there are many books dealing with the Holocaust I think this one has a bit of something more, as we follow Eliezer’s internal struggles with faith and morals as well as the external struggle to just survive. I gave this book 5 stars out of 5.