Night, by Elie Wiesel, (pdf) is a story told by Eliezer, (Elie), a Jewish teenager living in Hungary. This young teen studies the Torah, the Cabbala, and other aspects of the Jewish Culture. His instruction comes to a halt when his teacher, Moishe, is deported. In a few months, Moishe returns with stories of the German secret police butchering Jews. But Moishe is not believed and taken for a lunatic.
Then, in the spring of 1944, the Nazis occupy Hungary. Not long afterward, a series of increasingly repressive measures are passed, and the Jews of Eliezer’s town are forced into small ghettos within Sighet. Soon they are herded onto cattle cars, and an almost unbelievable nightmarish journey begins. After days and nights crammed into the car, exhausted and near starvation, the passengers arrive at Birkenau, the gateway to Auschwitz.
The story tells of Eliezer’s struggle in the concentration camps. His loss of friends and family, and the horrid conditions, and the way Jews were slaughtered. This can be a difficult book to get through. It leaves a person wondering how we can treat each other so badly.
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