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Night

Night was based on the true life account of Elie Wiesel. As the story begins, he is living in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Elie studies the Torah and the Cabbala. His learning is cut short when his teacher, Moshe the Beadle, is deported. In a few months, Moshe returns, telling a horrific tale. The Gestapo took charge of his train, led everyone into the woods, and systematically butchered them. Nobody believes Moshe's story and they all think he is crazy.
In the spring of 1944, the Nazis occupy Hungary. Shortly afterward, a series of increasingly extensive measures are passed, and the Jews of Elie's town are forced into small ghettos within Sighet. Soon they are herded onto train cars and his horrific adventure begins. After several days and nights being in the cramped train car, the exhausted and near starvation people reach their destination, Birkenau, the gateway to Auschwitz.
Upon his arrival in Birkenau, Elie and his father are separated from......

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