Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Night, by Elie Wiesel talks about his struggles as a young Jewish boy in Hungary growing up during World War Two. Before the war, Elie was very reliant on his Hebrew studies, such as reading the Talmud and the cabbala. His teacher's name was Moishe the Beadle, Moishe was a very active and exceptional man. The Hungarian government sent out a decree stating that all foreign Jews were to be sent away. Moishe the Beadle was a foreign Jew, so he is sent away. Luckily, Moishe is able to escape the camp because he was wounded and left to die, he was a lucky one while beating the odds. Moishe described “Each one had to go up to the hole and present their necks. Babies were thrown into the air and machine guns used them as targets” (pg. 4). His stories

Eighteen-thousand Jews were sent to Kamenets-Podolsk in Ukraine, most of the eighteen-thousand were brutally killed. No one knew where the Jews were taken to until some returned. No one in the town of Sighet believed Moishe’s stories, something the citizens would soon regret. The persecution of the Jewish people in Hungary started before the law of relocation. The government declared being Jewish a race, not a religion hurting their economic stature. All Jewish people had to wear yellow stars, demeaning their social prowess. They were not even allowed to go to cafes, restaurants, go on trains, attend synagogue, and be out of the house after six P.M. The worst of them all, all Jews were forced to live in ghettos. There were two ghettos in Sighet, a smaller and a larger. The Wiesel’s lived in the larger, their house was inside the boundaries of the ghetto so they did not have to move. After these laws were enforced, a state of relaxation and normality followed. Elie and his family returned to their daily lives, unaware of the humanitarian crisis going on. Their own Hungarian government and her allies were highly skilled at keeping the operation of dismantling the religion under