Night

In Chapter 7 of "Night", despite initially having over a hundred prisoners in the wagon, only twelve survived the horrific journey to Buchenwald. The prisoners endured severe conditions, including...

Elie Wiesel's book Night begins at the outset of World War II in the Jewish ghetto in Sighet, a small Transylvanian town which is now part of Romania. In the spring of 1944, the setting shifts from...

Eliezer's father is denied medical care at Buchenwald because the doctors and guards deem him nonessential due to his age and condition. One doctor dismisses him as not being his concern, while...

In Night, the trains transported Elie Wiesel and other Jewish prisoners primarily to Auschwitz, a notorious Nazi concentration and extermination camp. From there, they were later moved to other...

Prisoners who did not evacuate with the SS from Buna were liberated by the Russians two days later. Elie and his father, fearing execution if they stayed, chose to evacuate with the SS, leading them...

Elie escapes from the concentration camps when the American army approaches Buchenwald in April 1945, forcing the SS officers to evacuate and abandon their plans to kill remaining prisoners. A...