Joh offers a thoughtful review of Elie Wiesel's 1086 Nobel Peace Prize winner Night. It's slim and intense about Elie's childhood experiences in Nazi deathcamps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Joh's school requires 11 year old students to read this chilling book. Sounds like good required reading for all 11 year olds.

I emersed myself in such records decades ago and listened to stories from survivors and their families while at Brandeis University, hired a brilliant person who escaped twice as a child under Nazi machinegun fire, and then took a break from those decades until working with families that survived the Armenian geneocide.

I think it's time to read Elie's book.

Thanks, Joh, for the reminder, and kudos for finishing it yourself.

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