Night | Section Summaries

Timeline of Events

• 1941

  Eliezer begins studying kabbalah with Moshe the Beadle.

  Section 1
• 1941

  Moshe the Beadle and all the foreign Jews are deported.

  Section 1
• 1942

  Moshe the Beadle escapes, returns to town to tell about Nazi horrors. No one believes him.

  Section 1
• Spring 1944

  Nazis arrive in Hungary and then Sighet. They impose law, put people in ghettos.

  Section 1
• June 1944

  The Jews of Sighet are transported via cattle car to the concentration camp Auschwitz.

  Section 1
• June 1944

  Upon arrival in Auschwitz, Eliezer's mother and sisters go left, and he and his father go right.

  Section 2
• Same night

  Eliezer sees unthinkable horrors he will remember for the rest of his life.

  Section 2
• Three weeks later

  Eliezer, his father, and others are transported to Buna. They are poorly fed and overworked.

  Section 2
• Autumn 1944

  Young Pipel is hung for not divulging secrets. Eliezer loses faith that there is a just God.

  Section 4
• January 1945

  Eliezer and the others forced on Death March, eventually put on train to Buchenwald.

  Section 6
• January 28, 1945

  Eliezer's father dies from dysentery.

  Section 8
• April 11, 1945

  Buchenwald is liberated, and Eliezer and the other prisoners are freed.

  Section 9

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