The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an account of his life as a child in the early 1940's in Jewish concentration camps. What happened to him and millions of other Jews is horrible for anyone to have endured. Elie witnessed his father's death among other horrific deaths of children and adults. The torture he and others went through is captured in this book.
             Elie was born in Sighet Transylvanisa and he spent most of his childhood here living with his mother, father and sister. Elie studied the Talmud and at night he " ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple." When he was twelve he befriended Moshe the Beadle who was a very poor and humble man who started to teach Elie the studies of the Cabbala. Moshe and Elie would stay up late at night in the synagogue and talk about the mysteries of the Cabbala.
             Then one day the life of Moshe and of Elie would all change forever. All the Foreign Jews from Sighet including Moshe were expelled. Life eventually went back to normal for Elie and the people of Sighet. Then one day Elie saw Moshe sitting on a bench several months after he was expelled. Moshe then began to tell Elie about the torture of the Jews and how, " babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets." Moshe also went on to say how people had to dig their own graves and present their neck and were then killed. Moshe was able to escape but he was no longer full of "joy" in his eyes. Moshe and Elie no longer talked about the Cabbala or of God. However people did not believe Moshe's stories or what he had to say. After hearing what Moshe had to say Elie begged his parents to leave but they wouldn't.
             Then it all started to happen in the spring of 1944. Two ghettos were set up in the town of Sighet, a large on in the center of town and a small one. Jews were no longer allowed to keep any kind of gold or jewels in their ho...