Night By Ellie Wiesel: Summary

Night

The book, Night, by Ellie Wiesel is about a Jewish boy named Eliezer during the Holocaust. The story begins in Sighet Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer is a young boy, who learns the Torah and that is the Old Testament of the Bible. He was also learning about the Cabbala which is a Jewish doctrine of mysticism. Eliezer’s teacher is deported by the Germans. His teacher comes back a few months later and tells everyone about the things he saw the German Secret Police called the Gestapo do. He tells how they took a train load of Jewish people into the woods and killed them all. No one believes Eliezer’s teacher. …show more content…
The Germans make rules for the Jewish people to live by. They force the Jewish people to live in the ghettos of Sighet. After that the Jewish people are put into train cattle cars. They stuff so many of them into the cars that they can hardly breathe or move. They don’t receive food and water. The Jews arrive at Birkenau, which was the place people go before going to the concentration camp Auschwitz. Auschwitz was one of the most horrible camps to be at during World War II. It was a death camp. When Eliezer’s family gets to Birkenau, the Germans separate Eliezer and his father from his mother and sisters. Eliezer never sees his mother or sisters again. The Germans inspect the Jewish prisoners to see which ones are in good shape to work and which ones should be killed right away. Eliezer and his father pass and the German take them to some barracks to wait for transportation to the place where they will work. On the way to the barracks Eliezer sees an open pit where the Germans are burning truck load of babies. Eliezer and his father are made to march to Auschwitz and then to a work camp in

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