This book brought tears to my eyes, such was the power of this restrained and harrowing autobiographical account of survival through the German concentration camps. Elie Wiesel narrates his journey from belonging to a happy family with strong religious beliefs to one eating snow for food and sleeping over and under corpses, losing one by one, his faith, (view spoiler)[ his mother, his sisters and, extremely excruciatingly and gut wrenchingly, his father (view spoiler)[. 
 If there is one book that you read about how worse one's life can get, and yet how it clings to one single thin and bleak ray of hope, read this one. Highly recommended! Below is an excerpt to give you a flavor - 
 "How was it that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? [...] Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long God Himself. Never." (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]