Night

             In 1933, Adolf Hitler, a terrifying man came to power, and destroyed the lives of many people all over the world. In the novel Night by Elie Weisel, he tells the terrifying story of life in concentration camps that he and his family suffered. He survived famine, forced labor, beatings, and witnessed multitudinous executions. Throughout all of this he also lost his family and religious faith, which were extremely important to him. Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust but his soul remains there with the memories.
             Wiesel and his family lived in a small town called Sighet. Elie Wiesel studied the Talmud during the day and spent most evenings at the Synagogue. He was very religious and strong in his faith. At twelve, Wielsel was asking to study the Cabala, which is normally studied at thirty. His parents believed he should be in school. He became a friend with Moshe the Beadle, Who started to teach him the Zohar.
             One day all foreign Jews were deported from Sighet. They all were packed into a cattle train and taken away, this included Moshe. Life went back to normal and the town of Sighet soon forgot about the deportees. Elie seen Moshe sitting outside of the synagogue and Moshe began to tell him what he had experienced. He told Wiesel that the deportees' train went into Polish territory and was taken over by the Gestapo. All the deportees had to dig large graves, then the Gestapo made them stand in front of a grave and bare their necks. The Gestapo began to slaughter them, including babies, which were thrown into the air and used as target practice. Moshe was shot in the leg and thought to be dead, which is how he escaped. He returned to Sighet to warn them that the Gestapo was coming. The people refused to listen to his stories, thinking he has lost his mind. They didn't even believe that Hitler could even harm them. They went on living their lives believing all things were just fine. Even when new news came in about how ot...

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