From Birkenau, they are led to Auschwitz on foot. The prisoners are treated inhumanely, even as they are robbed of their clothes, tonsured, and sterilized with disinfectant before entering the concentration camp. They are on their way to the prisoners’ barracks when they witness truckloads of Jewish babies being pushed into a furnace. Eliezer and his father clear the first selection process. The males of the family, Eliezer and his father, are segregated from the females - mother and sisters - and they never get to see each other again.Įliezer describes many "selections" of Jews in his memoir, the first of which is the evaluation and separation of those who can be put to work versus those who need to be killed straightaway. When they arrive, they are in a state of extreme exhaustion and starvation. They are loaded onto a train and sent to Birkenau, a place that marks the entry into Auschwitz. Soon, repressive measures follow and the Jews residing in Sighet are crammed into ghettos. Moshe’s story finds no reception in Sighet, where everyone thinks he has lost his senses.īy the end of spring in 1944, the Nazis occupy Hungary. The German secret police force, the Gestapo, bundled everyone on board the train to a nearby forest and selectively butchered them. Moshe, however, returns after a few months to tell a horrendous tale. But his studies are interrupted when his tutor, Moshe the Beadle, is deported. Night is a memoir of a Jewish teenager named Eliezer, who, at the beginning of the story, is residing in a small town, Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania.Įliezer studies the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, and a doctrine of Jewish mysticism known as the Cabbala.
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