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Night

Night. By: Elie Wiesel This is a true story. Taken. Eliezer and His family are taken from their small Polish village along with all the other Jews of the village. They are stuffed like cattle into cargo cars. The Nazis gave no other choice. They had too much force.

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Night

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  1. Night By: Elie Wiesel This is a true story.

  2. Taken • Eliezer and His family are taken from their small Polish village along with all the other Jews of the village. • They are stuffed like cattle into cargo cars. • The Nazis gave no other choice. They had too much force. -The Nazis would often use tanks to subdue the Jews.

  3. Crammed • Eliezer and his family are shoved in among a multitude of over Jews in cattle cars. • The conditions are unbearable. • It’s unbelievably hot and there’s almost no room to breath along with the fear that they have no idea what’s going to happen to them.

  4. Arrival at Auschwitz • After three horrifying days on the train, the group from Sighet, Poland finally arrives at Birkenau, the first installation of Auschwitz. • The group arrived through this gate and to the awful smell of burning bodies in the chimneys nearby.

  5. Families Torn Apart • Upon arrival, Eliezer and mother and sister and immediately separated. • He never sees them ever again. • He and his father go through several “selections” and are able to pass them all, avoiding certain death.

  6. From Humans to Animals • The Nazi concentration camps had one purpose: to take away any hope or sense of humanity. • The Nazis walked the prisoners who had passed the selection passed a burning pile of dead babies. Eliezer and his father are shocked that humanity had not intervened. • Eliezer’s father is beaten for asking to go to the bathroom and Eliezer is shocked at the fact that he didn’t defend his own father. • The group of Jews then had numbers tattooed on their arms and were led from Auschwitz to another work camp, Buna.

  7. Survival • After being in Buna for several months, Eliezer notices a change in him. • He has started to only care about his own survival. • Even after is father is violently beaten for no fault of his own Eliezer shows no pity toward him. -As you can see, survival wasn’t easy. There were thousands of Jews dying a day and the conditions only worsened.

  8. Faith In The Face of Evil • Eliezer himself had lost his faith in God but he was not among the majority. • After summer, most of the Jews got together and worshipped God during Rosh Hashanah. • It’s amazing to me to see thousands of Jews worshipping God during such a terrible time as the Holocaust.

  9. A Lucky Break • Elieizer’s father had failed the selection but Eliezer had to go work, so when Eliezer returned to camp and saw his father he was quite surprised. • It was a lucky break that there had been a second selection among those that had failed the first one. • Luckily for Eliezer, his father had passed it.

  10. Winter in Germany • As winter fell on Germany, the prisoners began to suffer more than any other time previous. • Many died from the cold. Eliezer had come down with a serious foot infection and had to have surgery. • When news of Russian forces growing close, hope spread across the camp. The Nazis soon evacuated the camp and even though his foot was still badly infected Eliezer still went with the other prisoners, fearing he would be killed.

  11. The Trip to Gleiwitz • After one of the most brutal runs in history, Eliezer and his father finally arrive at Gleiwitz, a new concentration camp. • After another selection, in which Eliezer’s father fails but miraculously is able to get out of, the remaining Jews are shoved onto another train. • After a more brutal train trip, the train finally arrives at Buchenwald, only twelve of the hundred people in Eliezer’s cart are alive.

  12. A Heart Torn Apart By Tragedy • Eliezer’s father had been fatally wounded by the trip to Buchenwald. • He had been bed-ridden for three weeks. The people around him have beaten him constantly and Eliezer was starting to grow unsympathetic. • After Eliezer’s father profusely begged him for water, as was normal, Eliezer ignored him and went to bed. He woke up to another sick man lying underneath him. He would never see his father again. His heart had been ripped right out of his chest by the cruelness of the Nazis.

  13. Freed at Last • After several more months, Eliezer is finally freed from Buchenwald. • Eliezer is in the hospital for weeks but is eventually able to leave. Free at last!

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