Night is the true story of a fifteen-year-old boy and how he survives living hell in the Nazi concentration camps of the Holocaust.  Elie tells of how life was in the earlier parts of the war, when rumors about Jewish persecution began circulating. He tells of his life in the ghetto, how he was isolated from the rest of the world.  He told about the living nightmare of riding in the cattle cars to his first stop: Auschwitz, where he is separated from his mother.  He explicitly tells about how the Nazis tortured the Jews and slowly put them to death.  He spends his days with his father trying to avoid the selections, but it is inevitable. They are transported to a few different camps, where the conditions just seem to worsen as the war rages on.
     Elie himself proves to be a strong character.  What fifteen-year-old child has seen and experienced the things he did, and yet had the courage to continue fighting for his life?  Along the way, he meets many interesting people, just to see them soon slowly die.  I have never read an account of the Holocaust that was told so vividly and explicitly as this.  I would not have changed any part of the book if I were this author, because it is all a completely true story, and it’s plot warns people of this gruesome truth of hate.  Wiesel himself said, “...To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all...”
     I would recommend this book to anyone who believes this “horror must never be allowed to happen again.”  For, like A. Alvarez states in “Commentary,” Wiesel’s Night is “certainly beyond criticism.”