Summary of "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Wiesel, Elie

Night
April 1982
Bantam Books

Keywords: Holocaust, Ghetto, Concentration Camp, Death Camp, Nazi, Jew, Auschwitz, Genocide.

Summary: A young boy named Eliezer, Elie Wiesel, is take from his home along with his family. This is the true account of his horrific journey from his home town of Sighet through the concentration and death camps of Nazi Germany. Along the way he loses his friends, mother, sister, father, and his faith. At the end all that is left is a shell of the person he barely remembers.

Teaching Suggestions:
• This is a great primary source of the genocide during World War II.
• This could be used to discuss current atrocities around the world. How people need to help one another not hurt for temporary gains.
• Time lines could help illustrate what the United States was doing while Elie Wiesel and other Jews were being tortured in Europe.
• Geography could be employed to show where Elie Wiesel began and where the book ends.
• This could be used in grade levels 6-12.
• This book has the ability to teach hatred to students. This is why class discussions and independent writing assignments should be used to clarify any misconceptions students might have about the content.