Night by Elie Wiesel 

You must be brave to read this book.  It will not uplift you, but you will never forget it.

Darkness reigns in the life of Jews during the terror of Nazism.  This is part of the memoir of Wiesel who was rescued from Buchenwald at the end of World War II.  He lost everything, his family, his humanity, his hope.  Yet he survived.  Everything about him, though was changed.  That is what I think he wants the reader to understand; that a people were altered by the inhumanity of others.

"In Night, I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end – man, history, literature, religion, God. There was nothing left. And yet we begin again with night."