Book Report Night By Elie Wiesel

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The book night is about a boy experience with his father in Nazi German concentration camps and how his journey going there in 1944 to 1945. The book is a memoir. He began at his hometown of sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. He studied Talmud and Kabbalah. Moishe the beadle, is a poor foreigner Jew, who taught him a few about Kabbalah revelation and mysteries but it was short because one day all foreign Jews were expelled from sighet. Moishe somehow came back and told stories of what happened to him and the other passenger in the train but no one believe him. Eliezer’s town are forced into small ghettos around the sighet. Soon the Jews are ask to moved. So they went vehicle by vehicle. Supposedly trains, 80 people in each car so if one of them goes missing they …show more content…

They got separated from their other family member. They both pass the selection which is either death or work. Jewish arrival are stripped and any other possibility of cruelty. They march from Birkenau to main camp of Auschwitz. Then to Buna a work camp. Eliezer is put to work in an electrical fitting factory. In condition of slave laborer. Eliezer is forced to give his gold tooth using a rusty spoon. gestapo hanged small children and some rebels. In condition of cruelty, the prisoner began to turn to cruelty. Eliezer began to lose faith in God and others around him. After a month Eliezer undergoes an foot operation. While he is healing in the infirmary he heard that Russian are a dancing and will liberate the camp so the Nazis decided to evacuate to Gleiwitz concentration camp in the middle of a snowstorm. The old and sick stayed but Eliezer and his father March with the other prisoners. Then rides a train to Buchenwald. A deadly journey once again. 100 Jews boarded but only 12 survived. Eliezer and his father tried to support each other to survive but his father died of dysentery and physical abuse. Eliezer still trying to survive but

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