This book is based on World War 2 and what it was like to live in concentration camps. This book was focused on a boy (the main character) and his family and how they ended up in these concentration camps. The main character was a twelve-year-old boy by the name of Elie Wiesel. Elie spent much of his time practicing Talmud and on Jewish mysticism. A man by the name of Moshe the Beatle taught Elie most of what he knew about Mysticism. After a new death experience with the Nazi’s, he came back to the town were Elie lived and told everyone that the Nazi’s will be coming for them soon. No one believed him, but it did happen rapidly. Before Elie’s family knew it they were living in small ghettos that the Nazi’s assembled them to live in before Elie’s family and the rest of the Sighet Jews were transported to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. …show more content…
Nazi’s escorted Elie and his group of Jews with clubs to a selection of those who are fit enough to work and those who are declining in strength. The way that Elie and his father make it through this selection is by lying about their ages. Elie says he’s 18 and Elie’s father says he is only 40. Elie’s mother and three sisters disappear into a concentration camp by the name of Birkenau. After three or so weeks at Auschwitz they march to Buna, a factory in the are of Auschwitz, where they sort electrical parts. Elie’s father failed the first health test they have ever went through but then gets another chance to live and passes that physical test. Due to Russian liberations moving in on the German concentration camps the Nazis and the Jews are forced to run a forty-two mile trip to Gleiwitz. Anyone that falls behind is instantly shot on the spot. Once they get to Gleiwitz they are forced on a ten day train ride further into Germany. The Jews are forced to eat hand fulls of snow to