User:Keren05/Bagrut Project/Book Sharing/Night

The characters and the story behind:
Elie (Eliezer): The main character and narrator of the story, Elie is fifteen years old when he is taken to the Nazi concentration camps. Elie and his father support each other throughout their internment. Elie's father dies before the liberation, but Elie becomes a survivor and witness of the death camps. Elie's narrative recounts the horrors of his nightmarish Holocaust experience.

Elie's father (Shlomo): A storeowner and a well-respected Jewish community leader in Sighet before the deportation of the Jews. Elie develops a strong bond with his father as they go through the unforgettable journey through the death camps. He manages to survive the internment until the very end, where he dies of dysentery before the liberation of the camps.

Hilda and Bea: Elie's older sisters, they survive the camps.

Tzipora: Elie's younger sister. She dies, along with Elie's mother at Birkenau.

Moshe the Beadle: A poor Jewish mystic in the town of Sighet who becomes Elie's spiritual mentor and friend. In 1942, Moshe is deported to Poland where he witnesses the mass extermination of the Jews. He manages to escape and goes back to Sighet to warn them of danger. No one listens to him.

I take the information from this site: 

To My American friends
Dear Sean and Caiti;

How are you my friends?

The book night is a very interesting book that reflects the hope that the Jews had in this horrible terrified period. Moshe the beadle actually was the only person that believed in the beginning of the story.

Elie is the main character of the story. He was fifteen years old when he was taken to the Nazi concentration camp.

Moshe the Beadle is a poor Jewish mystic in the town of Sighet who becomes Elie's spiritual mentor and friend. In 1942, Moshe is deported to Poland where he witnesses the mass extermination of the Jews. He manages to escape and goes back to Sighet to warn the people of the danger. No one listens to him.

Elie's father (Shlomo) a well-respected Jewish community leader in Sighet before the deportation of the Jews. Elie develops a strong bond with his father as they go through the unforgettable journey through the death camps.

Shlomo manages to survive the internment until the very end, where he dies of dysentery (disease of intestine) before the liberation of the camps.

In what chapter are you now?

Sincerely;

Keren

Night- chapter 7
In this chapter the bodies of Jews are thrown from the train.

Two prisoners try to throw Elie's father out, but Elie convinces them that his father is still alive.

Twenty bodies are thrown out of the train. As they have no rations, the only food that was available is snow!!!!!

After ten days of travel, a German workman throws a piece of bread into the passing wagon. In the train there is a stampede for morsel of bread.

In the story, one boy- Meir- kills his father for a piece of bread and another hungry prisoner kills the boy for this piece, too.

Elie tells in the story that a stranger tried to strangle him. Elie's father calls for his friend –Meir Katz- and he saves Elie.

Meir starts to lose hope after what happened. He tells Shlomo that he is losing his strength and getting weak.

After a long journey they arrive to Buchenwald- but Meir stays on the train.