Haven't been doing a lot of reading lately, and I finally read Night by Elie Wiesel after having it on my bookselve since last year. I even carried it with me to my trip in January, hoping that I will have time to read this slim volume. Turned out that I didn't have much spare time until now.
I've been wanting to understand more about the Holocaust since my visit to the Anne Frank House at the end of 2005 and the realization that liberation of Auschwitz was on January 27, which is my b-day! I think last year was the 60th Anniversary of the liberation and there was a big ceremony for it. Anyways, back to the subject...reading the book made me realized how lucky I am - That I live in a relatively peaceful period today. Some of the accounts in the book are pretty unreal...like you'd wonder "Why would a human being commit such cruel act"? and makes you question a lot of things... It's sad that this really happened. I am glad that this is a popular book because we all need to learn from history and make sure something like this doesn't happen again. I still don't know how these devils came up with such evil plans to kill millions of people systematically, and the fact that the system was working so well made me sick. Hope we all learn from this and try not to kill one another from now on.
