The book Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel, he was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camps, and then to Buchenwald. Night is a terrifying record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, and the death of his own innocence. In this memoir Wiesel describes different events that’s he experiences in the concentration camps. For example, there is one scene that sticks out to me in this whole book. In this scene Wiesel, his father and the Jews were marching to the crematorium where they were burning the Jewish people alive. While marching Wiesel sees a huge pit where babies are being burned, and another for adults. At that moment when he sees that he pinches his self to