Night

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NIGHT
By Elie Wiesel
Caitlin Bradford, E.J. Paterline, Philip Schneider
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In 1941 in a Hungarian town far from the war, A
young Jewish boy Eliezer is more worried about
studying the Tora, then what the Nazi's are about
to do to him and his family. The spring of 1944
Eliezer finds himself face to face, with the true
terror of the Nazis at Auschwitz.
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Characters

• Eliezer
• Father Maimonides
• Mother
• Hilda sisters
• Bea sisters
• Tzipora baby
• Idek
• French girl at warehouse
• Moshe the Beadle

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• Eliezer was studying Cabbala with Moshe the
  Beadle
• Foreign Jews were expelled from homes by
  Hungarian Police
• After a few years the Fascists started to
  restrict the rights and take away all valuables
  from the Jews living in Hungary.
• Nazis come into Eliezers town and attack Jewish
  shops and synagogues.

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• On 7th day on Passover leaders of Jewish
  community were arrested.
• All Jews were made to move into Ghettos
  surrounded by barbed wire fences
• Shortly after they were made to move to a smaller
  Ghetto.

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• They were taken out of Hungary to Auschwitz in
  cattle cars.
• A woman in the cattle car hallucinates and
  screams about fire and flames outside the
  car.(foreshadowing)
• When they arrived in Auschwitz, Eliezers family
  was split up.
• A prisoner told Eliezer and his father to lie
  about their ages so they could stay alive.

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• The Jews have to go through many inspections
  after arriving at the camp.
• Children are burned right away because they are
  little use to the Germans.
• All their belongings are taken and they are
  shaved head to toe. They are made to wear
  prisoners clothes.

• They were all given tattoos of numbers to
  identify them.

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• Elie and his father see many relatives, they are
  happy to know that they are still alive.
• They are forced to join a work detail at a
  warehouse for electrical equipment.

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• Elie has to see a dentist to remove his gold
  tooth because Jews were not allowed to own
  anything valuable.
• Elie and his father were beat up very badly by
  the leader of his block.
• Elie is punished by being whipped severely
  because he caught the block leader with a girl.

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• The electrical station is blown up and the blame
  goes to the Dutch Oberkapo. He and a child were
  found with an arms cache and hanged for everyone
  to see.
• They were made to look the child in the eyes even
  though he wasnt dead yet.

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• Elie watches people die all around him
• Rosh Hashanah happens, Elie has lost all faith in
  god by now.

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• Winter comes and Elies foot swells, he has to
  have an operation.
• While recovering he gets word that the Germans
  are evacuating the camp, everyone in the hospital
  is to be left behind.
• Elie leaves the hospital fearing his fate would
  be worse there than with the others.
• Turns out the patients are liberated by the
  Russians a few days later.

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• They leave the camp at night and have to run
  through the snow, about 42 miles, many died from
  the cold.
• They meet a rabbi who was separated from his son
  and Elie remembers his sons intentions to lose
  his father.

• Elie hopes he can overcome the feeling that his
  father is a burden to him too, but he cant.

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• On their way to Buchenwald, they were crammed 100
  to a cattle car, a 10 day journey, still with no
  food or drink.
• After arriving, After their journey in the snow,
  Gleiwitz is where they ended up. Three days
  without food or drink.
• Elies father was to ill\weak to live. In his
  sleep they had carried him off the crematory.

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• Elie stayed at Buchenwald three months after his
  fathers death.
• On April 10th, the camp resistance organization
  decided to act to take over the camps and set the
  Jewish free.

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• Three days after the liberation Elie almost lost
  his life to food poisoning.
• Elie has had to face what he went through
  everyday, and still sees himself as a living
  corpse.