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5/5stars In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. No words can ever do justice to this book, to come even close to explaining what reading this years and years after the publication did to me, so I cannot even begin to comprehend what it was like back then, what it was like for those who experienced it first hand. “Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what it was.” indeed. Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because he kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar? I have not read many books surrounding the holocaust but let's just say the way this small merely 100 page book made me feel so many things, I CRIED MY EYES OUT. It's gut-wrenching it's heart-breaking but it is the truth and people need to stop trying to erase this out of the history. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. People need to stop being silent. As [a:Elie Wiesel|1049|Elie Wiesel|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1255518412p2/1049.jpg] himself mentioned in his Nobel Price Acceptance Speech, "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. Obvious CWs for the book: Holocaust, Concentration Camps(vv graphic) please look into those before going into this one!