Night (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1941-1945
- Setting: Eastern Europe
- Principal Characters: Eliezer, Father, Moshe the Beadle
- Genres: Long fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, World War II, Guilt, God, Jews or Jewish life, Fathers, Faith, Holocaust, Jewish, Talmud, Horror, Concentration camps
- Locales: Auschwitz-Berkenau, Transylvania, Romania
The Story:
Eliezer lived with his parents and his three sisters in the village of Sighet in Transylvania. He studied the Talmud, the Jewish holy book, under the tutelage of Moshe the Beadle. Late in 1941, the Hungarian police expelled all foreign Jews, including Moshe, from Sighet in cattle cars. Several months later, Moshe returned and informed Eliezer that the deported Jews had been turned over to the German Gestapo and executed in a forest in Poland. Moshe had managed to escape. He had returned to Sighet to warn the Jewish community of what would happen to all Jews if they...
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