Night

By 230036

  • Devout

    p.4 "Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? I don't know.

  • Hungarian Hatred

    p.19 "That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death.

  • Birkenau

    p. 28 In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh. It must have been around midnight. We had arrived. In Birkenau.

  • Faith

    p. 80 “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”

  • Silent

    p. 32 How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?

  • Sanctify

    p. 33 For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

  • Assassin

    p. 94I tried to rid myself of my invisible assassin. My whole desire to live became concentrated in my nails. I scratched, I fought for a breath of air. I tore at decaying flesh that did not respond. I could not free myself of that mass weighing down my chest. Who knows? Was I struggling with a dead man?

  • Silence

    p. 118 “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?”