The Six Days of Destruction

@qu:Elie Wiesel and Albert Friedlander have created a slim volume of meditations and liturgies of profound and stark beauty. @source:Simon Sibelman, Jewish Chronicle @qu:This book fulfils the task in a unique manner with a variety of texts and illustrations ... this is a remarkable achievement in bringing together extreme darkness and utter pain with the eternal longing for peace. @source:Theological Book Review (Feed the Minds) @qu:They are powerful stories ... the language, the impressionable word images, bring to life the innocent ignorance of those whose lives were about to be overturned, the interminable horrors of the transit trains, the brutality, the degradation, the selection for death, but also the heroism of the small humanities that miraculously survived ... can we bear this book and respond to its challenge. @source:Westminster Synagogue @qu:One hopes that this tiny but thoughtful book will find a place next to the Bible among both Jewish and Christian communities abroad. @source:Jerusalem Post @qu:The overall effect is extremely powerful, and heartrending to say the least. Eile Wiesel's pieces are emotionally draining... Whilst there are countless eloquent and profound testimonies to the Holocaust, few would match the nakedness and honesty of Wiesel at his best. In a few pages he captures all the despair, blindness, suffering, brutality, and incomprehensibility of those horrendous times. His words are complemented by the stark tension of the drawings, their tormented lines clearly reflecting the circumstances of their creation. Yet to Wiesel's credit, and to our relief, he also reminds us that truth, goodness and beauty - as demonstrated, for example in a mother's love, the will to live and faith in God and man - did not cease to exist... The Six Days of Destruction is a work which merits a wide audience. In particular it would be of considerable value as an introduction to Holocaust studies for young people, or for other novices in this area. @source:Geoffrey Zygier, The Australian Jewish News @qu:The overall effect is extrememly powerful, and heartrending to say the least. Elie Wiesel's pieces are emotioally draining... Whilst there are coutless eloquent and profound testimonies to the Holocaust, few would match the nakedness and honesty of Wiesel at his best. In a few pages, he captures all thedespair, blindness, suffering, brutality, and inccomprehensibility of those horrendous times. His words are complemented by the stark tension of the drawings, their tormented lines clearly reflecting the circumstances of their creation. Yet to Wiesel's credit, and to our relief, he also reminds us that truth,goodness and beauty - as demonstrated, for example in a mother's love, the will to live and faith in God and man - did not cease to exist... The Six Days ofDestruction is a work which merits a wide audience. in particular it would be of considerable value as an introduction to Holocaust studies for young people, or for other novices in this area. @source:The Australian Jewish News