Night by Elie Wiesel is a first-hand account of how the concentration camps were like during Hitler’s reign. Elie Wiesel lived in Sighet, Transylvania and in 1944 he was he and his family was taken away from their home to an Auschwitz concentration camp. They were separated into men and women and that was the last time he saw his mother and sister. He stayed with his father and tried to keep him motivated, but it only worked for a short time. They moved from camp to camp and the last camp he was in was called Buchenwald camp. On January 29, 1945 he awoke and his father had passed and now he was all on his own. On April 10, 1945 at ten o’clock in the morning, the resistance decided to act and by noon everything was calm again. At six o’clock