Night Summary by Aquiles Heredia and Eddie Pelayo

In the beginning of the of the book Night by Elie Wiesel the main character, Elie Wiesel himself lives in a small town named Sighet far from the war and the Nazis. Elie wants to learn teachings from the Kabalah from a man named Moshe The Beadle, because his father refused to teach Elie. Elie's father is a very cultured man who takes care of his community more than his own family, him and his family own a small shop. Eventually the Nazi's and the hungarian police come to the small town and take all the non-local Jewish residence including Moshe the Beadle and they were forced to dig a big trench which were to be the grave for most of the men,women,and children there. Moshe was left for dead and was able to see others left to suffer. Although he had tried to warn the Jewish community in Sighet by going back and preaching of his experience, no one would listen and just treat him like of he had gone mad. A year goes by then the Nazi return to Sighet and make all the Jews in the area to move into ghettos so they could be seperate from the other people. As more time passes in Sighet the Jews are once again moved to a smaller ghetto in the town while others are made to move to the synagouge to await to be transferred out of the town. Elie's house maid Martha begs him and his family to go to her hometown but his father refuses to leave the Jewish community behind. Eventually the Nazis begin to transfer all of the Jews in the small town due to the town being to close to the border where a war is taking place. Elie and his family are one of the last to be transferred out so the group of people are made to stand up and sit down due to roll call. To tire out the Jews the Nazis do roll call several times under the hot sun. The Jews are later made to wait in the main synagouge which was crowded and very unsanitary. The women and the men are seperated with the men in the bottom floor of the synagouge and the women on the main floor. They are eventually made to leave the main synagouge and into very crowded cattle cars that is to leave to a unknown destination. Eddie Pelayo Aquiles Heredia