Summary
Moshe the beadle lives in Sighet,Transylvania. The town is now under Hungarian control. A lot of people like Moshe but he is very humble. Eliezer's father is very regarded from the Jewish community and he doesn't pay as much attention to his family like he does other people he barley knows. He has two older sisters, Hilda and Béa. Moshe returns from the concentration camp and warns the whole town, no one believes him. Jews are not allowed to leave their homes and must wear a yellow star. Two ghettos are made and everything goes back to normal.
Timeline
1. Elie meets Moishe the Beadle, who teaches Elie about Kabbalah
2. All of the foreign Jews are expelled from Sighet, including Moishe
3. Moishe returns to Sighet to tell the Jews about what he experienced, but no one believes him
4. German soldiers come to Sighet and begin to oppress the Jews slowly
5. Passover begins
6. The leaders of the Jewish community are arrested on the seventh day of Passover
7. The Jewish people are no longer allowed to own any valuables and are stripped of their belongings
8. The Jewish people must wear the yellow star to be identified at all times
9. Two ghettos are created and the Jews are transferred within them
10. Elie and his family are moved to the small ghetto
11. Elie and his family are moved out of the ghetto on one of the transports
2. All of the foreign Jews are expelled from Sighet, including Moishe
3. Moishe returns to Sighet to tell the Jews about what he experienced, but no one believes him
4. German soldiers come to Sighet and begin to oppress the Jews slowly
5. Passover begins
6. The leaders of the Jewish community are arrested on the seventh day of Passover
7. The Jewish people are no longer allowed to own any valuables and are stripped of their belongings
8. The Jewish people must wear the yellow star to be identified at all times
9. Two ghettos are created and the Jews are transferred within them
10. Elie and his family are moved to the small ghetto
11. Elie and his family are moved out of the ghetto on one of the transports
Character profiles
Eliezer Wiesel (identification number A-7713)
The narrator of the book, Eliezer is taken to concentration camps in Czechoslovakia and Germany at the age of fourteen. As a young boy in Sighet, Transylvania, he is very devout and interested in Jewish mysticism, and his religious faith evolves (but is never extinguished) during his time in concentration camps. Though he is separated from his mother and sister upon first arriving at Birkenau, Eliezer manages to remain close to his father during almost the entirety of his stay in concentration camps. He is very devoted to his father, and the two share rations and look out for each other. However, the harshness of camp life weakens Eliezer's filial devotion, which causes him much shame and guilt. Eliezer becomes concerned primarily with feeding himself and with escaping Nazi brutality, and this instinct of self-preservation often outweighs concern for his father, who he expects to take care of himself. A few months before the concentration camps are liberated, Eliezer's foot swells from the cold, and he has to undergo an operation.
Eliezer's father (Chlomo Wiesel)
Eliezer's father is very respected within the Jewish community of his hometown, and he spends most of his time occupying himself with community affairs. He is a member of the Jewish Council, which is the first group to hear about deportation, and he refuses to try to escape the country. In the concentration camps, he and Eliezer take care of one another. A fifty-year-old man, he is becoming increasingly weak and dried up, and he finds it harder than Eliezer to escape the abuse of concentration camp life. On the last march to Gleiwitz, he becomes very weak and sick, and at Buchenwald he catches a deadly case of dysentery. He dies on January 29, 1945, after an SS officer shatters his skull with a truncheon. His last word is a whispered "Eliezer."
Moché the Beadle
A poor, humble man who works at the Hasidic synagogue in Sighet, Moché is well-liked by all the townspeople. He helps Eliezer to study the cabbala, and he teaches him that it is more important to ask God the right questions than to try to find the right answers. Early in the war, Moché is deported to Nazi concentration camps because he is a foreigner. He manages to escape and tries to warn the townspeople of the horrors of the Holocaust. They ignore him and think he's mad.
The narrator of the book, Eliezer is taken to concentration camps in Czechoslovakia and Germany at the age of fourteen. As a young boy in Sighet, Transylvania, he is very devout and interested in Jewish mysticism, and his religious faith evolves (but is never extinguished) during his time in concentration camps. Though he is separated from his mother and sister upon first arriving at Birkenau, Eliezer manages to remain close to his father during almost the entirety of his stay in concentration camps. He is very devoted to his father, and the two share rations and look out for each other. However, the harshness of camp life weakens Eliezer's filial devotion, which causes him much shame and guilt. Eliezer becomes concerned primarily with feeding himself and with escaping Nazi brutality, and this instinct of self-preservation often outweighs concern for his father, who he expects to take care of himself. A few months before the concentration camps are liberated, Eliezer's foot swells from the cold, and he has to undergo an operation.
Eliezer's father (Chlomo Wiesel)
Eliezer's father is very respected within the Jewish community of his hometown, and he spends most of his time occupying himself with community affairs. He is a member of the Jewish Council, which is the first group to hear about deportation, and he refuses to try to escape the country. In the concentration camps, he and Eliezer take care of one another. A fifty-year-old man, he is becoming increasingly weak and dried up, and he finds it harder than Eliezer to escape the abuse of concentration camp life. On the last march to Gleiwitz, he becomes very weak and sick, and at Buchenwald he catches a deadly case of dysentery. He dies on January 29, 1945, after an SS officer shatters his skull with a truncheon. His last word is a whispered "Eliezer."
Moché the Beadle
A poor, humble man who works at the Hasidic synagogue in Sighet, Moché is well-liked by all the townspeople. He helps Eliezer to study the cabbala, and he teaches him that it is more important to ask God the right questions than to try to find the right answers. Early in the war, Moché is deported to Nazi concentration camps because he is a foreigner. He manages to escape and tries to warn the townspeople of the horrors of the Holocaust. They ignore him and think he's mad.
Literary Analysis
I think Elie wrote chapter one so we could see what all he was going through and what all was going on around him.
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