The First Night- Joshua Flores per.4

This blog is about the events that take place during the first section of the autobiography "Night" by Elie Weisel. The section takes place in Sighet, Yugoslavia(a small Jewish community in 1941 during WW2 and and is focused on the protagonist Elie. In the beginning, we learn about Moische the Beadle, who is what you might say a caretaker for the Jewish synagogue and is very awkward and shy. Moische and Elie become very close and mainly discuss the Kabbalah. Then on one day the Hungarian police come with orders to take all foreign Jews. As it so happens, Moische the Beadle is a foreigner and is taken by the police, along with every other foreigner, on freight trains. The rest of the community wept everyone that left, but after several months everything returns to normal. Elie is very shocked to Moshe in the church after what happened. Elie is curious about what happened and Moshe tells him the horrifying details. He tells him how they took them to the woods outside the and were forced by the Nazis to dig ditches. Then they started shooting and killing everyone. Moische was only shot in the leg and was able to survive. When Moische starts telling everyone what happened, they don't believe a word he says and thought he wanted pitty or gone mad. Then, later on the Germans come overtake the place, but are very polite and nice to everyone. Unexpectedly, the Germans hold a council meeting and have plans to transport everyone. Everyone is forced by the Germans to move walk to the freight trains, screaming at them and pushing them with their rifles. Finally, they begin to leave to their destination.




Joshua Flores
English-4