Summary of Elie Wiesel's Night

Sample Key Takeaways:

1) Author and narrator Eliezer Wiesel, who was twelve when the story begins in 1941, was a Jewish boy living with his family in a small town named Sighet, in what we now know as Romania.

2) In 1942, during World War II, the local authorities decided to kick out all Jews who were foreign from Sighet. They were packed into trains and sent off. The other inhabitants of Sighet didn’t make much of it, though it should have been a warning for them.