Remember reading this book a long time ago in high school. Now that I'm older and hopefully wiser, this book is more powerful and haunting than I recall. Within a concise narrative, Elie Wiesel transports us back to the dark days of Europe when evil was paramount and the human spirit was waning. This book serves as an educational marker for later generations of the horrors of war, totalitarianism, hatred and intolerance. The Holocaust must never be forgotten as it showed us that even within advanced civilizations, the worst debasement of humanity is possible.