Summary of Night (book by Elie Wiesel)

Pain.  Suffering.  Agony.  Death.  The Holocaust.  It is 1941 when Elie receives his first taste of what the Holocaust is in his town of Sighet.  It started off with stories of unimaginable horrors beginning to occur.   Stories of infants being tossed in the air and used as gun targets; stories of men, women, and children being forced to dig their own graves and then shot down into them.  These are horrendous tales that extend beyond your wildest nightmares, how could they be true?  But then, he begins to live these horrors.  He goes into the cramped ghettos and then into the unspeakably brutal concentration camps.  He is separated from his mother and little sister, Tzipora, forever as the Nazis push them into one line, and him and his father are put in another.  From there on out, his survival hangs by a thread.  If he does not work hard enough or falls ill for too long, then his life would be terminated in the blink of an eye.  The terrors of the camps increase day-to-day, and more and more people are murdered.  Elie becomes just another body in the swarming masses of tortured Jews, crying out in anguish and despair.  He has lost himself, and his only goal now is to survive.  To survive the night…