Night
Elie Wiesel
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Night | Section Summaries
Timeline of Events
1942
Moshe the Beadle escapes, returns to town to tell about Nazi horrors. No one believes him.
Section 1Spring 1944
Nazis arrive in Hungary and then Sighet. They impose law, put people in ghettos.
Section 1June 1944
The Jews of Sighet are transported via cattle car to the concentration camp Auschwitz.
Section 1June 1944
Upon arrival in Auschwitz, Eliezer's mother and sisters go left, and he and his father go right.
Section 2Three weeks later
Eliezer, his father, and others are transported to Buna. They are poorly fed and overworked.
Section 2Autumn 1944
Young Pipel is hung for not divulging secrets. Eliezer loses faith that there is a just God.
Section 4January 1945
Eliezer and the others forced on Death March, eventually put on train to Buchenwald.
Section 6
Section Summaries Chart
| Section | Summary |
|---|---|
| Foreword | In the foreword to the text, poet, writer, essayist, and playwright François Mauriac (1885–1970) recalls his first meeti... Read More |
| Section 1 | In 1941 Eliezer is nearly 12 years old. He lives in a small town, Sighet, which is located in Transylvania, Romania. Eli... Read More |
| Section 2 | Eliezer and his family are packed in a cattle car with other Jews from Sighet. Conditions are deplorable, and the inhibi... Read More |
| Section 3 | As Eliezer and the others exit the cattle car, they receive instructions: "Men to the left! Women to the right." This is... Read More |
| Section 4 | Upon arrival, the men are showered, given new clothes, and sent to one of two tents while waiting for their work assignm... Read More |
| Section 5 | The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah (New Year) has come and the men gather for prayer. Eliezer is angry at God and feels... Read More |
| Section 6 | The prisoners run for miles through the snow dressed in layers of clothing. Those who fall behind are shot like "[a] fil... Read More |
| Section 7 | Eliezer's father lies next to him in the cattle car, somewhere between life and death. When the train stops, the SS inst... Read More |
| Section 8 | The men arrive in Buchenwald utterly exhausted. Before being allowed to sleep they must take showers, but they are so we... Read More |
| Section 9 | Eliezer spends the next few months in the children's block. He no longer thinks of anyone, including his parents. All he... Read More |
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