Summary Of Elie Wiesel's Night

The time period during World War II was very devastating. There were a countless amount of brutal deaths, with people even being burned alive. The setting of Night takes place in 1944, in a concentration camp called Buchenwald. It all starts out when the main character, Eliezer, has his Jewish hometown overrun by the Germans. Eliezer's hometown gets turned into a ghetto by the Germans, and they are forced to stay in the ghetto until the whole neighborhood is sent to the concentration camps. Since the neighborhood is Jewish, they are shipped off in cattle carts to the concentration camps, where most of the neighbors will spend the rest of their days. One of the ladies on the cattle cart was even going crazy. “ Look! Look at this fire! This