Rabbi Eliahu enters a small shack occupied by Eliezer, looking for his son. The refugees stop in a small village where Eliezer and his father keep each other awake to avoid freezing to death. Chapters 6-7Ĭhapter 6: The prisoners are forced to run 42 miles in one night during a blizzard. He discovers later that the patients were liberated the next day.
Eliezer assumes infirmary patients will be killed so he leaves. Eliezer hurts his foot and is sent to the infirmary. Eliezer rejoices as he returns and discovers there was another selection and his father still lives. This time Eliezer’s father is on the wrong side. Chapter 5: It is late summer 1944 and another selection occurs. The Nazis erect a gallows at camp and hang three prisoners, the last one, a boy loved by all, causes even the most jaded of prisoners to weep. A prisoner crawls to them and is shot right before eating some. During an air raid two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. Idek whips him mercilessly and warns him that one word of what he saw will result in more severe punishment. Eliezer catches Idek having sex with a Polish girl. Franek beats Eliezer’s father and he gives up the crown. The prison foreman, Franek, notices Eliezer’s gold crown and demands it. He is savagely beaten by the kapo, Idek and is consoled by a French worker, whom he meets years after the war. Eliezer’s only focus is to eat and stay alive. Chapters 4-5Ĭhapter 4: At Buna, Eliezer is summoned by the dentist to have his gold crown removed. His recounting of the miserable conditions on the cattle cars and the horrific events he witnesses at Birkenau are examples of first hand accounts that must be taken seriously in order to prevent something as horrible from happening again. He emphasizes the need to be aware of evil in the world and to believe first hand accounts of it. Wiesel’s primary goal in publishing Night is to prevent another Holocaust from happening. He and his family are warned several times to flee, yet they and the town find the truth impossible. Analysis: Wiesel emphasizes the human failure to comprehend just how evil humans can be. The prisoners are then escorted to Buna, a work camp four hours away. Eliezer’s father asks to go to the bathroom and is clobbered by a kapo - a fellow prisoner tasked with supervising other prisoners.
When they arrive in their barracks they are disinfected with gasoline, receive a tattoo, and are dressed in prison clothes. As they walk to Auschwitz they pass a pit of burning babies. Eliezer and his father lie about their age and avoid the crematorium. As the train arrives at Birkenau, they see smoke rising from chimneys and are inundated with the horrific smell of burning flesh. One woman, Madame Schacter, continually screams of a fire. Chapter 2: Eliezer and his townsmen are packed into cattle cars and suffer terribly. Their former Gentile servant, Martha, warns them of impending danger and offers them a place of refuge. Eliezer’s family is part of the last group. Days later the town is ordered to evacuate. The Jews of Sighet remain in denial that anything bad will happen to them. Fascists gain control in Hungary and allow the Nazis to come. He returns to Sighet with horrific tales. When all foreign Jews are expelled, Moshe is deported. He is a strict Orthodox Jew who is tutored by Moshe the Beadle. Chapter 1: Elizer Wiesel grew up in Sighet, a small town in Translyvania. This article will give you a summary of the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel won the Nobel Prize Peace Prize in 1986 for spreading his message of peace after his horrific experiences as a Holocaust survivor.
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