What does the quote from the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel mean?

Why is the book Night by Elie Wiesel relevant today? I have done a report but i wanted real opinions.?

• I have written an essay for my honors english class about how is Night relevant today and i think i've done a pretty good job on it... but after i wrote it i started to wonder what others might think of it. If you haven't read the book you should b/c it really makes you think. The book is about a young boy of 15 years old dealing with concentration camps during the Holocaust. The boy is with his father and only his father does he trust anymore. The boy begins to give up in believing in God which he before confided in much. I really enjoy learning about these kinds of things and i'm hoping that someone else who does too will find this post and will e-mail me or something. Well i appreciate you all reading this. By the way the author (Elie Wiesel) is the boy in the book of Night. Thank you all very much and can't wait to hear from you.

• Answer:

  I just read this last week for history, and i feel that what makes it relevant today is how the entire story slowly evolves into something horrific. None of the people in the story ever expect the worst will happen. Even when terrible things do occur, they think the war will end soon and their worries will be over. In one part of the book, he says something like, "how can this be happening in the 20th century?" So it's like a warning today that bad things can still happen. Places in the word, similar genocides are taking place but not on such a large scale. The book shows that when people like Hitler go unchecked the results could be disastrous. On a different note, the other aspect of teh book is the tremendous spirit and courage needed by Elie to survive and not regret his decisions. He sees that Rabbi's son try to break away from his father and makes an oath never to do that to his own father. Enduring human spirit is always something relevant, and also making moral tough decisions in stressful environments can be hard. To be selfless versus selfish comes across many times in the book because they are all trying to survive. And something else which i can't remember.