Night's Summary

Night’s summary (pp. 3-22)

The story begins with a boy telling us about a man, this man is called Moishe the Beadle. He was a poor man who didn’t like to be helped by the other Jews.
He liked to be alone and he was a good prayer, he knew how to pray, he prayed because he enjoyed asking God real questions.
This child had a family: mother, father and two sisters. He was the third and the only son. He wanted to study Kabbalah but his father tried to convince him of not doing that until he’s an adult. One day, he found Moishe and they started talking, they enjoyed wasting their evening talking about religion, Moishe decided to teach the boy the great and difficult Kabbalah.
One evening, all the foreign Jews were transported to another place, between all of them there was Moishe, and the days were sad for the boy, then it was all normal again. After a long time Moishe returned to Sighet, and tried to tell Jews that the situation in Europe was really bad, that his trip was a lie and that the ones who were in charge of his transportation let them die somewhere. Nobody believed him, everyone thought he had lost his mind, even the boy thought he was mad, nobody wanted to believe him, because it was the twentieth century, they thought those things were impossible to happen in a world like ours.
The days passed by and good news were present in Sighet, Germany was not entering in their territory; in less than 3 days German Army made their appearance.
Germans were kind with the Jews, everyone who was afraid, started to believe that German people was innocent, that they were not bad, Moishe was lying again. Then, they were forced to wear the yellow star, it was not lethal, that’s what they thought at the moment.
After that, ghettos were created and the boy and his family were sent to the biggest one, they were afraid again, but the days passed by and they recovered hope, the ghettos weren’t that bad, it was like a little city, they all know each other and they can be with their family. Everything was ok when something bad happened, a Jew policeman was called and after being nervous almost all the night, he came back, according to him they were going somewhere else, a journey.
They cannot take valuable objects with them, and they can just have some belongings, the family was scared but no one wanted to show any kind of weakness, even the girls were really strong, crying was not enough for the Germans.
Next day, all the Jews were forced to go out and stand in the ground with the sun, thirsty and tired some Jews were taken in the train, some others were staying at home until the next day.
Finally, the family was taken into the train, there were eighty persons by car, no one could escape from there, and if they tried to they would be shot.
The train started to walk to their cruel destiny.