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Elie was raisedin Sighet, Translyvania. He is Jew who is annoyed by Moshe theBeadle. Moshe was always a man of faith, he was just a little odd. When all the Jews
were not from Translycania had been expelled, therefor Moshe got deported. He returns
to Sighet with stories of how he excapted the Nazis, the mobile killings of many, many
Jews. Like in our notes, mobile killings were part of the steps to eliminate the jews by
shooting many and then burrying them. None of the other jews believed Moshe, because
they havent experianced the Nazis unbelievable violence. Soon the Nazis come and the
Jews of Sighet remain in denial that anything bad will happen to them. Days later the
town is ordered to evacuate.
The day of the evacuation the Jews, along with Elie are packed into cattle cars and
suffer terribly. One woman continually screams of a fire. The people end up getting so
irritated with her that they beat her until she is quiet. As the train arrives at Birkenau, they
see smoke rising from chimnies and the smell of burning flesh. They have seen the
creamitoriums where most of their lives will end. These cremitoriums are used to burn
bodys of millions of jews.
After arriving at Birkenau, Eliezer and his father lie about their age and avoid the
crematorium. When they arrive in their barracks they are disinfected with gasoline,
receive a tattoo, and are dressed in prison clothes.After sometime Eliezer's father asks to
go to the bathroom and the Kapos smack him for even asking. The prisoners are then
brough to Buna, a work camp. By this time Elie is very angry, and frightened. I really
cant compare to this situation. Some time after Elie is made to go to the dentist, they
wanted to rip out his gold tooth, so Elie faked being sick to avoid it. Later the doctor was
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hung and Elies tooth was still attached. Later a man named Frank attempts to threaten
and bribe him for it.
Later in the book Elie catches Idek having sex with a Polish girl. Idek had realized he had
seen, and later whipped him horribly. He warned him that if he ever spoke a word of
what he saw things would be much worse. Our notes had told us of this kind of thing
happening to the women prisioners during the war. During an air raid two cauldrons of
soup are left with out being gaureded. The Nazis hung three people, one just a boy, for
attempting to steal from them. This part of the book made me feel really sick because, the
boy, was left hanging half alive and half dead. No one deserves to be hung because of
trying to survive.
After awhile another selection occurs and Elies fathers name was written down. He gave
a spoon and knife to Elie, thinking it was his last day. Some how his father survived and
they both made the selections. Later Elie injures his foot and is sent to the infirmary, then
he gets news that they are liquidating the camp and decides its best not to stay. The
patients were liquidated along with the camp.
Elies father gets very sick quickly after. He falls asleep on a cold night after days of
giving his share to his father, and wakes up finding his father gone. We went over this in
our class, on how one night you could fall asleep and you were so deprived that you
would die, and your body would just be carried off. Elie had felt guilty that he couldnt
even cry over his fathers death, also he hated that feeling of relief he felt deep down.
After his fathers death Eliezer is only concerned with food during his remaining months
at Buchenwald. Elie being orders of evacuations were cut short by an air rade. He had
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nearly died from food poisoning. Elie looks and the mirror in the end and sees a dead
corpse staring back at him.
I feel that this book was very inspirational, and should be used as a learning
source in every history class. The book Night was one of the most effective ways to
help me learn about the holocaust. The fact that Elie could survive such horrific,
disgusting, and un-humane conditions should inspire everyone. He could have given up
hope in living, or even trying, but even though most hope was lost he still strived to live.
Also, this book shows the real cruelties of the holocaust, and portrays exactly what went
on in history in a way that almost anyone could understand.
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