Night: A Visual Review of Elies Journey into Darkness

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NightA Visual Review of Elies Journey into
Darkness
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• At the beginning of the novel, Elie and his
  family are living in Sighet, in the region of
  Transylvania in Romania. As the Nazis take over,
  the Jews of Sighet are forced to move into
  ghettos.

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• After being transferred from the large ghetto to
  the smaller ghetto in Sighet, Elie and his family
  are finally loaded into cattle cars to be moved
  to concentration camps.

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• After being loaded in cattle cars, Elie and his
  family are transported from Sighet to the
  Auschwitz concentration camp system in
  Nazi-occupied Poland.

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Auschwitz Camp System Birkenau, Auschwitz, and
Buna.
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Auschwitz II - Birkenau

• Upon their arrival at Birkenau (the reception
  center of Auschwitz) , Elie is separated from his
  mother and sisters.

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Auschwitz I

• At first, conditions at the main camp of
  Auschwitz seem better than Birkenau. But Elie
  quickly learns that this is no convalescent home.

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Auschwitz III - Buna

• After their stay in the main camp, both Elie and
  his father are moved to Buna the labor camp.

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The Auschwitz Experience

• Unlike many of their comrades, both Elie and his
  father survive the grim realities of the
  Auschwitz camp system.

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Evacuation of Auschwitz and the death march

• As the Soviet Army drew closer and closer to
  Auschwitz from the East, the surviving prisoners
  were evacuated on a deadly march West

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Gleiwitz (Subcamp of Auschwitz)

• After a dangerous march through the wintery
  landscape, the surviving Jews from Auschwitz were
  briefly installed at a smaller camp in Poland
  called Gleiwitz.

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Second Railroad Journey

• As the Soviets kept advancing from the East, the
  Nazis kept trying to push their captives further
  West into Germany. The survivors of Auschwitz
  were taken to a snowy field divided by railroad
  tracks and once again loaded onto cattle cars.

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Buchenwald

• After their second railroad journey, Elie and his
  father arrive at Buchenwald (another
  concentration camp in the heart of Germany).

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Surviving Buchenwald

• At the final camp, Elie struggles to keep his
  father well and alive.

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Liberation of Buchenwald

• Elie is finally rescued from the Holocaust as
  Buchenwald is liberated by the Allied powers.
  Unfortunately, Elies father does not survive his
  stay at Buchenwald.

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The end of the novel

• Though he physically survives the Holocaust, Elie
  Weisel is a changed man. No longer the fierce
  and idealistic believer, his faith has been worn
  down and almost destroyed through these
  experiences. Elie, when describing himself,
  admits From the depths of the mirror, a corpse
  gazed back at me (Weisel 109).

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The Overall Journey Into Darkness