Night: Section 1

At the beggining of the story we meet our main character Eliezer, a jewish boy who is about 12 year of age, both of his parents are shopkeepers and he also has two sister named Hilda and Bea, also a youger sister named Tzipora. They all live in a town called Sighet, which is in Transylvania. Eli like to read the jewish oral law and the mystical texts, he then finds himself a teacher called Moshe the Beadle. But not long after all the foreign Jews are forced to leave by the hungarians. A few months later Moshe returns and tells people of how grusome it was and about all thing killings that were happening. He pleads this case to the town but they refuse to belive his story and think he is crazy.
The Hungarians were taken over by the German armies in the spring of 1944, and soon move into Sighet. Not long after this event happens very grusome measures are taken against the Jews in which people are arested, many thing of the Jew were taken from them, they were all forced to were these yellow stars saying they are Jews. Until finally they get forced into the small "ghettos."The Germans began the long process of the deportation of all the Jew in Sighet. Eli's family is among the very few left, until they are forced to leave. They come into this one little "ghetto" were they meet a person named Martha who offers to them to hide them in her village, yet they decline this offer and are put into cattle cars and shipped to aushwitz.