Months later, Eliezer has surgery done on his foot due to an injury. Eliezer then Discovers he is losing his humanity and drifting away from God. This made sons torture or abandon their fathers. Eventually, the Jews adopt an attitude of self-preservation. The captives are forced to witness their fellows get hanged in the courtyard. Their sole consolation is their Zionist origin and love for one another. With poor working and living conditions, the prisoners become malnourished and emaciated. Upon arrival, they are taken to a camp called Buna, where Eliezer is made to work in a factory. Later on, they are forced to march to Auschwitz.
The Jews get stripped naked as they arrive and proceed to be shaved, sanitized and mistreated. On their way back to the prison quarters, they discover an open pit in which they discover Nazis incarcerating babies alive. However, Eliezer & his father pass all inspections. Eliezer then details how the Jews were routinely screened to determine if they are fit for work, or should be executed. It is there that Eliezer’s sisters and his mother get separated from the family, leaving him with his father. Later on, they get packed on cattle cars then transported to Birkenau, just a few miles from Auschwitz.
All Jews within Eliezer’s town get rounded up and placed into little ghettos within Sighet.
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Soon afterward, a series of increasingly cruel murders are conducted upon the citizens. Nazis occupied Hungary during spring in 1944. Even though some information has been altered, most of Wiesel’s experiences during the Holocaust are similar to Eliezer’s. Eliezer is, to some extent, fictitious representation of the writer, Elie Wiesel. However, it is popularly regarded as one because of the numerous, depositions, testimonials as well as emotional openness that is characteristic of memoirs. The story of Night is not exactly a memoir by the definition of the word itself.