Night by Elie Wiesel

Madame Shacter was screaming about the fire, the huge flames and the furnace that she could see. Then she was begging the people on the train to believe her but instead they gagged her and tied her up. In a way, Madame Shacter was prophesying about the crematories at the death camps, the huge flames and the furnaces that turn the Jewish nation into ashes.
'I believe profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.' (p. 13)
Elie Wiesel was a child of such high religious values, who at the age of just twelve…