![]() In Buna, Elie works in an electrical fittings factory under slave-labor conditions. They eventually arrive in Buna, a work camp. Next, the Nazi captors march the Jews from Birkenau to Auschwitz. They must sleep in cramped barracks with minimal blankets and barely enough food to stay alive. ![]() Elie was now known as “A-7713,” tattooed on his left arm. They even give them a number and take away their name. If they have decent clothes, they are taken and replaced. The Jews are stripped, shaved, and disinfected. Now they are robbed of the rest of their worldly possessions. First, the Jews were forced to abandon their homes and anything they couldn’t carry. The Nazi captors take everything from the Jewish arrivals but their life. But they are led past to the prisoner’s barracks. Elie doesn’t know if they will be thrown in the furnace. ![]() But afterward, they are led past an open pit furnace where the truckloads burn babies. Upon arrival, Elie and his father are separated from Elie’s mother and sister, whom they’ll never see again.Įlie and his father go through the first “selection,” which determines whether they should be killed immediately or they can work. A woman keeps yelling, “fire!” Everyone thinks she’s crazy until they arrive at Birkenau, where they see the flames in the dark sky. They are crammed, exhausted, and nearly starved on their nightmarish journey. They adapt to living in the ghetto but are forced into cattle cars soon after. Eventually, the Jews in Sighet are forced into a small ghetto. But over time, the Jews received harsher and harsher restrictions. When the Germans arrived, they seemed polite. The Jews in Sighet heard rumors of Nazi atrocities in Hungary but didn’t believe they would reach them. The Nazis occupied Hungary in the spring of 1944. The Jews continued their lives as normal. But they fail to leave when they have the chance because they don’t want to start over again. But no one believes Moishe, and everyone calls him a lunatic.Įliezer, his family, and the Jews in Sighet received many warnings about the German’s plan for the Jews. Moishe escaped after he was shot in the leg and left for dead. Moishe the Beadle and all the other foreign Jews are carted away like cattle.Ī few months later, Moishe returns and tells Elie that the Jews were carted to Poland, and the Gestapo took over and forced them to dig their graves. One day the Hungarian police expelled all foreign Jews from Sighet. In the beginning, Elie lives in Sighet (in modern-day Romania).Įlie is a devoted Jew and wants to learn Kabbalah from a Jewish man named Moishe the Beadle. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is about a teenage Jewish boy’s experience during World War Two. This invaluable book remains a testament to one man’s courage and will to survive. It has become an essential part of Holocaust literature, inspiring generations with its heartbreaking yet uplifting message. Night is a powerful testament to the human spirit’s and faith’s resilience. Despite all the violence and horror, Wiesel never loses hope that goodness exists in an evil world. He struggles with his faith and asks why God would allow such suffering. Wiesel understands the best and worst that humans are capable of. Night is the autobiographical story of Elie Wiesel’s survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps during World War II. Night by Elie Wiesel is a powerful and haunting memoir that chronicles the author’s experience of surviving the Holocaust during World War II.
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