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Eliezer Wiesel's Night
Elie Wiesel Lyndon Fabi
Night
Book Review of Night This book is about Eliezer Wiesel himself and his father’s journey throughout the Holocaust. Night begins in 1941; Elie lived on the small village of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. He lived with his parents and his three sisters. One day, a man from Sighet warns the town about the dangers of the German army, nobody listens and a year passes by. In 1944, Jews from Sighet were forced to the cattle cars, they were treated like animals. Elie quoted in the book “The doors were nailed up; the way back was finally cut off. The world was cattle wagon hermetically sealed” chapter 2, page

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