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Night is a horrible, first hand encounter of the Holocaust. A fifteen year old boy, Elie Wiesel, tells of his experiences with the Nazi SS, and concentration camps. This book begins late in 1941. Wiesel was from the small town of Sighet, Transylvania. He led a typical life- a devote student and deeply religious person. He was filled with the false impression that they- himself, his town, his family, would not be affected by the war. Still filled with this optimism, deportation began. Life in the Ghettos was paradise compared to what was to come. Packed in a cattle car, Wiesel and his family were taken to Auschwitz. There, the family was spilt up. Wiesel only had his father now for his basis for support. He and his father learned how to survive at Auschwitz from the ‘veterans’ there. He faced each day as a witness to starvation, brutal beatings, death, and the wavering of faith in God. Now, becoming desensitized to death, Wiesel witnessed the deaths of countless individuals. One could potentially put to death for being an innocent bystander. No rules applied here. Evacuation became a familiar setting. Wiesel and his father, still together, barely survived the hellish journey to Buchenwald. This j