There are so many abuses; it is difficult to believe that anyone managed to survive the brutal conditions in the camps. The Jews had literally nothing to eat but scraps of bread, the Nazis often punished the entire camp for the slightest mistake. For example, he remembers the Nazis forcing them to stand still while they were naked in the snow, and he recounts a Nazi guard's rape of a Polish girl. He writes with vast emotion about the cruelties piled on the survivors, and the book is difficult to read because of these images. In another example, he states, "How long had we been standing like this in the icy wind? An hour? Simply an hour? Sixty minutes? Surely it was a dream" (Weisel 47). Sadly, the book is full of these images and it is difficult to read because of it.
The book could not be called "enjoyable," it was too dramatic and sad for that. However, it was fascinating, and even though it ended on a hopeless note, it was a book of hope because the author survived, and is still alive. He managed to beat the odds, and more importantly, he shared his story with the world. It is a terrible story, but he needed to tell it. Some people still do not believe the Holocaust existed, and reading this book it is hard to see how they could doubt it. A child lived through these horrible experiences, and just the telling of them is horrific, it must have been even worse to be there. To see the images this young boy saw, and not believe them is just too much.
As far as liking the book, I did like it,...
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