Has anyone else read Elie Wiezel's book Night? (Very Mild Spoilers)

CW: Antisemitism, the Holocaust

I recently finished the book in my English class, and it was one of the most beautifully painful books I have ever read. Honestly, it might be the best book I have ever read, period. I'm an American teenage girl, so obviously I have learned a lot about the Holocaust, but after year after year of hearing the same things over and over and people constantly making jokes online, I admit I had become a bit desensitized. I obviously knew it was horrible, but no one my age ever really took it seriously. But this book showed the horrors in such a gut-wrenchingly real way that I think it finally helped me understand just how awful the Holocaust was. A bit strange that it wasn't the dozens of statistics or history lessons, but a short, 100-page book about one boy's experience. Every part of it was so raw and heartbreaking; I don't think I've ever read a book that has touched me so deeply.

I legitimately think that this book should be required for everyone to read, on a federal level. And not just because of Elie Wiesel's mastery over the language. Obviously I cannot stress enough how phenomenal his writing was; I could probably write a whole essay on his use of punctuation alone. But if someone is able to read Night and come back from it and still be a Neo-Nazi or Holocaust denier, I don't think they could be human.

I just wanted to post this here to encourage people to read it if they haven't, because it is such a moving and emotional book and I had never even heard about it until my English teacher introduced it to us. I cannot over-emphasize how this book made me feel. And that's why I think it is so sad that so many of my classmates barely bothered to pick the book up, or joked about the atrocities Wiesel lived through. Did anyone else also have such an emotionally charged experience?