What Is The Summary Of The Night By Elie Wiesel

This story has true events that taken place the 1940’s. These events are being written by Elie Wiesel. Someone who was there when the following event happened. The story begins in Sighet, Germany during the rule of Hitler. Elie and his family that consisted of shlomo(father), Sarah Feig(mother), and his three female siblings, Hilda (oldest sister), Bea (second sister), and the youngest sister, Tzipora. Elie was the third child and the only son. At the time that they still lived together right next to the largest ghetto in Sighet, Elie was thirteen and wanting to be a Kabbalist. He even asked his father to find someone to teach him the Kabbalah. Shlomo said no every time he asked. There were no kabbalists in Sighet. Shlomo was always sought …show more content…
They first saw the crematoria: A place where the old, sick, and lazy people went. The crematoria was a constant threat from the Germans when the Jews first arrived of the cattle cars and into Birkenau. Actually, it was a constant threat the whole time they were there. They were told to strip and the only thing they were aloud were there belts and shoes. Then they were led to the showers. After their shower, they went to pick out clothes. Then they were led to the barracks. Elie’s father had asked a gypsy were the bathroom was and shlomo got hit really hard for not doing anything besides asking were the toilets are. The Germans treated them like mutts. They went through constant beatings even if you didn’t do anything …show more content…
They wee loaded into cattle cars and they traveled for days with nothing to eat. From time to time, the train would make stops, so people could fling the dead out in the snow. So many were without a grave. The last stop they made before Buchenwald, The SS threw a crust of bread in the car. So many tried to kill each other for the crust but Elie stayed still. An old man got away with a little for him and his son but when the son saw he had the bread, the son killed him for it even though the old many said he had gotten some for his son. His last words were, “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… you’re killing your father… I have bread… for you too… for you too…” The others saw what Meir did and killed him and got both of their bread. Finally, there war a revolt by some of the Jews. The took over the camp and freed the Jews that were there. For the first time since the ghetto, Elie saw himself in a mirror and he saw a corpse. That’s where he finish the