A. Elie Wiesel lived in a small town called Sighet. Living in the ghetto, there were many restrictions. Jews were not allowed to leave their homes as they pleased and were forced to wear yellow stars. Besides the limitations, he loved his community. Throughout the day, he practiced Talmud, which were common with Jews. At night, he went out to the synagogue and cried over the Temple’s destruction. Moshe the Beadle was a poor guy who worked at the tabernacle. In the beginning of his lifetime, Mr. Wiesel were dedicated to the traditional Jewish creed.
B. Elie and his father had a fluctuating relationship. In the beginning of the story, the father and son’s connection was almost non-existent because his dad ran a shop and was a leader in the community. He seemed to have more time for everybody else rather than his own family. Throughout the story, their experience at the concentration camps caused them to have a stronger bond.
C. Elie wanted to study cabbala, but his father told him that he was too young to engage in such a dangerous activity. With no support from his father, he took it upon himself to do it anyway and met a guy name Moshe the
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From May to July, many Jews were deported. These numbers were continually expanding. Before long enough, all Jews were extradited from those particular nations. Those ones that stayed had secreted, proceeded as a slave by the work they performed, were baptized, or required a diversified race crew. “From the middle of May through to the first part of July, more than 430,000 Jews were deported from Hungary --- a process reported through statistics by Ferenczy to the Interior Minister as he moved around the country overseeing mass deportations” (Cole 105). “Just over a week later, he noted that this figure had almost doubled, with 184,049 Jews deported in fifty-eight trains by midday on 28, May with another thirty-five trains ‘ready to deport 110,000 of the remaining Jews’ in the VIII, IX, and X gendarmerie districts” (Cole