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Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Alysa Armas Armas 1 Ms. Engelen English 10 20 Feburary, 2017 Night In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel describes his experience with his father while in the Nazi German concentration camps. Eliezer's family and many other Jews that lived in a small town Transylvania town of Sighet weren't able to flee the country when they had the chance. All the Jews were sent to a concentration camp. Eliezer was separated from his mother younger sister but wasn't separated from his father. They lied about their ages so they would have a better chance to be together. Eliezer was very religious and studied the Talmud. He goes to the temple every night but also decides to study Kabbalah. Their experience there was horrifying and changed their lives forever. …show more content…

Moishe the Beadle sees Eliezer crying while praying at the synagogue, and realize they have a connection. Eliezer looks up to Moishe because he is teaching him more about Kabbalah. After a while the Hungarian police expel all the foreign Jews from Sighet. The Moshe the Beadle was a foreigner, him and many others and packed into trains like cattle. Moishe the Beadle returns, and he tells Eliezer his story, he and the others had been brought to Poland. The Gestapo took over and forced the Jews for dig their own graves. The only way Moshe was able to escape was from being shot in the leg and left to die. “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad”. (Chapter

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