In Night, by Elie Wiesel, the day before Elie and his family and friends were to be deported, they were taken to the local synagogue. Elie described the place of worship as a huge station luggage and tears. (Wiesel 19) The Nazis had destroyed much of what had been inside. The bimah (altar) was broken, all of the wall hangings had been ripped from their places, leaving the walls empty.
When Moishe the Beadle comes back into the ghetto in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, several opportunities to escape are missed. Moishe warns the Wiesels about the transports and the killings so that they could get ready and escape. The Wiesels choose not to believe his terrible accounts of what is happening. Elie had asked his father