Night Elie Wiesel Summary

Night is a memoir narrated by Elie Wiesel, a boy raised in Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. The story takes place in pre-WWII, just before the Jews were sent to concentration camps. As a teenager, Elie was very religious and curious about the cabbala so Moché, a poor local pauper. An order is later given that all foreign Jews were to be deported including Moché. Several months later, he escapes from his captors and returns to Sighet to give news that the Jews were actually being killed, but no one believed him; he was viewed as a lunatic. The people live their normal lives for 2 years until news break out that Nazis are killing people but they are still pretty optimistic, even when the Nazis arrived to town. After the night of passover,

two cauldrons of soup were left unattended. Elie and many other prisoners watch as a man risks his life to crawl to the soup. The man reaches the soup, moves his head into the liquid, and then is shot and falls lifeless to the ground. A week later, the Nazis erect a gallows in the central square and publicly hang another man who had attempted to steal something during the air raid. The victims never did cried having lost emotion. Only once, an Oberkapo and his assistant, a young boy, who everyone liked were suspected of blowing up a power plant on camp. The little boy was sentenced to be hanged. The prisoner who usually served as executioner refused to perform his task and had to be replaced by an SS officer. The child remained silent and the whole camp observed in silence. Since the child was so light, and he remained alive, hanging for half an hour until he suffocated on his blood. That day Elie's soup tasted like

Meir Katz, a strong friend of theirs, rescues Elie. When the train arrives at Buchenwald, only twelve out of the hundred men who were in Elie's train car are still alive. Meir Katz is among the dead. The march to Buchenwald had fatally weakened Elie’s father. His father has given up but Elie tries to convince him to move When an air raid alert drives everyone into the barracks, Eliezer leaves his father and falls deeply asleep. The morning, he begins to search for his father, but part of him thinks that he will be better off if he abandons his father and conserves his strength. However, he finds his father, who is very sick and unable to move. Elie brings him soup and coffee. Elie's father has dysentery and now lays in his bunk. Elie tries looking for a doctor but is told that he is better off saving his rations to increase his chance of survival. At night, Elie's father cries for water to an SS officer, and the officer beats him off. The next day, his father has been replaced by another invalid and taken to the