4. Synopsis: The memoir starts in Eliezer’s hometown of Sighet, Hungary, where Eliezer is in instruction when his instructor gets taken away. A few months pass when his teacher Moshe returns and tells the class of the horrifying tell of the Gestapo taking charge of the deportation and slaughtering the members of the deportation train. Later in the spring of 1944, the Germans invade Hungary oppressing the Jews of Sighet, making them live in the ghettos, and eventually putting them onto the train to Auschwitz. Once there Eliezer gets separated from his mother and sister and put into the work camp at Buna. While at Buna, with his father, Eliezer and the others witness and undergo unspeakable things that remind the reader of how terrible the people