Summary Of Eliezer Wiesel's Night

In the beginning of Night, it starts of with a family that is Jewish. They try to stay calm after Eliezer's instructor warned them that the Nazis were coming to capture the Jews. When it became Spring, Jews were put on they're way to a concentration camp. On they're way to the concentration camp, this women keeps seeing flames and saying "fire". But no one believed her in till the third day at midnight on the train. Eliezer and Ciomos( Eliezer's father) get separated from the rest of their family. In the middle, Eliezer and his father work at a electrical-fitting factory. Eliezer and Ciomos try to keep up being healthy so they can still work in the work force. Three weeks later, Eliezer and his father are forced to march to Buna, which is a

factory in a Auschwitz complex, where the sort out electrical parts. Eliezer's father goes for a second physical exam and passes it, which gives him a second chance to live. At the end of Night, Chiomos is dying slowly, so Eliezer is nursing his father, so his father can get better. Eliezer's thoughts change. One day when Eliezer awakened, his father is gone. He has thoughts that his father was taken to the ovens, where they burn the Jewish people. Then in April, the American forces liberated the concentration camp where Eliezer was in. In summary, the book Night by: Elie Wiesel gives us a glimpse of how Jewish people life were like during the Holocaust time period.