Sunday, June 16, 2013

In Night by Elie Wiesel, what story did Moshe tell upon his return?

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Moshe the Beadle is taken along with other foreign Jews by the Nazis before the other residents are rounded up for the camps. Moshe manages to escape and makes his way back to Sighet, the town where Elie Wiesel lives with his family. Moshe feels that he has been saved in order to warn the others about the Nazis, but nobody believes him. He tells everyone who will listen that...

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Moshe the Beadle is taken along with other foreign Jews by the Nazis before the other residents are rounded up for the camps. Moshe manages to escape and makes his way back to Sighet, the town where Elie Wiesel lives with his family. Moshe feels that he has been saved in order to warn the others about the Nazis, but nobody believes him. He tells everyone who will listen that he and the others, who were taken along with him, were transported by train into Poland, where they were transferred into lorries and driven into the forest. 



"There they were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck" (Wiesel 4).



Moshe tells horror stories of how the babies were killed and how relatives were forced to watch their families killed before they were killed themselves. Somehow Moshe was able to escape when he was shot in the leg, and the murderers thought him dead. He went from house to house in Sighet to convince his neighbors to leave, but his stories were so unbelievable, they decided he must be crazy. 

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