Elie Wiesel

Night

1. IDEA 1

   A boy's world is destroyed

   Wiesel describes his childhood as a deeply religious Jewish boy in Sighet, a town in Transylvania. In 1944, when he was fifteen, his family and community were deported by the Nazis to concentration camps.

2. IDEA 2

   A warning was ignored

   Wiesel describes Moishe the Beadle, a poor man who escaped a massacre and returned to warn the town. People thought he was mad and did not believe him, a failure that cost lives.

3. IDEA 3

   Deportation separated families

   Wiesel and his family were sent in crowded cattle cars to Auschwitz. On arrival, he was separated from his mother and sisters, whom he never saw again. Their absence haunted him forever.

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