The book Night is about escaping because it’s either that or death. In a couple times of the book they have a chance of escaping. Like when Moshe the beadle was crammed onto the cattle train he manages to escape. He came back running to house to house telling everyone about the trains. The trains would make their way into Poland then taken over by the gestapo. The Jews were put in trucks and then driven into the forest in Galicia. Where they were forced to dig their own pits. Then when they finished digging they would be killed and put in the pits then burned. Babies were thrown up in the air used for targets by the Nazis. The Nazis also had machinery, guns, and camps.
Eliezer and his family were crammed into a cattle wagon with 80 others.