Night By Elie Wiesel

The book chosen for this research project was “Night” by Elie Wiesel. The main point to focus on in this book was the treatment of the Jewish. This book is an autobiography telling a story of Wiesel’s time as a victim to the Nazis. At the time, Elie Wiesel was a teenage boy who lived in a town, Sighet, Transylvania, with his parents and three sisters. The autobiography starts off with Wiesel recalling memories about a man named Moshe the Beadle. Wiesel was interested in learning something that his father did not want Wiesel to know about. Moshe the Beadle was a teacher in the viewpoint of Elie Wiesel while everyone else in the town just thought that Moshe had lost his mind when talking about his story in surviving a terrible thing. Later

Bodies were piled on top of each other. Three days later, they were to leave the place only to be deported to the center of Germany. Everyone was separated into two groups; the weak and the healthy. Wiesel was separated from his father. They were shoved into carriage to move to the new destination. They passed through towns where workmen would be amused when they threw a piece of bread in the carriage and the victims would fight one another for it. At one point, someone was trying to strangle Eliezer in his sleep but Meir Katz, his father’s friend, pulled him off. Only a dozen men survived the train ride and reached Buchenwald. His father got very ill and unfortunately passed away during late January of 1945. Wiesel stayed at Buchenwald until April 11th and during that time, he became numb to everything. The camp was to be evacuated but Elie Wiesel and the others were not able to leave Buchenwald. The Americans rescued Wiesel’s group and they became free from Hitler’s rule. Elie Wiesel then reunited with his two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice Wiesel at an orphanage in France, also finding out that his mother and younger sister, Tzipora, were murdered at

All prisoners wore a specific star on them to be recognized by the others at the camp. Prisoners were kept in unsanitary places which could have caused illnesses that many of them had. The prisoners were not given enough nutrition. The only reason they were given a little bit of food was to keep the them alive to be used for labor. The Jews had to work all the time and follow orders in fear of dying. In the morning, they would have to line up for roll call. Instructions and rules were then given out afterwards to the workers. Marching sessions also occurred almost every single