Hey Veeky Forums, what are your opinions on Elie Wiesel's "Night"?
(need to pick a holocaust book for school, this is just one i was keeping in mind)
Hey Veeky Forums, what are your opinions on Elie Wiesel's "Night"?
(need to pick a holocaust book for school, this is just one i was keeping in mind)
Never read Night, might check it out.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a pretty good Holocaust book.
It's a collection of short stories by a non-jew who was at Auschwitz.
Sorry, but I'm really not into reading fiction.
lol k
Finkelstein describes two known frauds, that of The Painted Bird by Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski and Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, and how they were defended by people even after they had been exposed. He identifies some of these people as members of the "Holocaust Industry", and notes that they also support each other. Elie Wiesel supported Kosinski; Israel Gutman and Daniel Goldhagen (see below) supported Wilkomirski; Wiesel and Gutman support Goldhagen.
According to Finkelstein, Elie Wiesel characterized any suggestion that he has profited from the "Holocaust Industry", or even any criticism at all, as Holocaust denial.[15] Questioning a survivor's testimony, denouncing the role of Jewish collaborators, suggesting that Germans suffered during the bombing of Dresden or that any state except Germany committed crimes in World War II are all evidence of Holocaust denial – according to Deborah Lipstadt[16] – and the most "insidious" forms of Holocaust denial are "immoral equivalencies", denying the uniqueness of The Holocaust.[17]
its pretty good. Haven't read any other shoah books but I liked this one because it has literary merits besides "aushawitz sucks"
like most jewish writers, Wiesel is too biased to see the positive aspects of national socialism
Half your class will pick muh Night.
Do Primo Levi.
This. I've actually heard good things about him.
God, don't fucking do it.
Or do, actually. You know those gas chambers kikes are always worked up about? I'm pretty sure it never mentioned them once in the entire book. Just about everything in it is bogus except for mischling kids being treated better.
As with every holocaust book.