Night By Eliezer Wiesel: Summary

Night is by a Jewish teenager named Eliezer Wiesel. When the life begins, Eliezer lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer likes to study the Torah and the Cabbala. His teacher Moshe the Beadle has been deported. After a few months, Moshe returns, telling a terrifying story; the German secret police force took charge of the train and led everyone into the woods, regularly slaughtered them. But nobody seems to believe Moshe, who is taken for a maniacal. In the spring, the Nazis take over Hungary. The Jews of Eliezer’s town is forced into small ghettos within Sighet. They were forced onto cattle cars, and a dreadful journey occurs. After days and nights of exhaustion and starvation, the passengers arrive at Birkenau, the gateway to Auschwitz.
In the selections in the camp the Jews are evaluated to resolve if they should be killed immediately or put to work. Eliezer and his father pass the evaluation since they lied about their age. The Jewish men’s were to strip, shave, disinfect and treated with torture. Eliezer is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. In the camp the Jews are accountable to beatings and humiliations. The prisoners are forced to watch the hanging of fellow prisoners in the camp. Eliezer begins to lose humanity and his faith, both in God and in the people around him. After months in the camp it was time for another evacuation. They were forced to run for more than fifty miles to Gleiwitz camp, then from there to the last camp Buchenwald. Eliezer and his father help each other to survive, unfortunately Eliezer’s father dies of physical abuse and