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- Eliezer’s foot swells up, and he undergoes an operation. While he is in the hospital recovering, the rumor of the approaching Russian army gives him new hope. But the Germans decide to evacuate the camp before the Russians can arrive.
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In the end of Night, Elie and his weakened father arrive at Buchenwald after enduring a forced march and a death-train transport. In the train, food was thrown into the cars by people in the...
At the end of the book- the end of his time in the concentration camps- Wiesel is quite nearly a corpse. He has been starved and worked very hard, resulting in dramatic weight loss.
In Buchenwald, however, Eliezer’s father dies of dysentery and physical abuse. Eliezer survives, an empty shell of a man until April 11, 1945, the day that the American army liberates the camp. A short summary of Elie Wiesel's Night. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Night.
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
- Elie Wiesel
- 1960: Night. New York: Hill & Wang; London: MacGibbon & Kee, 116 pages.
What happens at the end of Night by Elie Wiesel? Eliezer escapes the camp after it is liberated by the American army in April of 1945. The novel concludes with Eliezer looking at himself in the mirror and seeing the reflection of a corpse.
Jul 7, 2016 · In Night, Wiesel at one point defies his Yom Kippur fast—and more: “There was no longer reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence.”
Eliezer 's unit is joined by prisoners from a musicians' unit, including Juliek, a violinist. They are sent to work in an electrical equipment warehouse. One of the musicians tells Eliezer that he has landed in a good unit, but that the Kapo, Idek, occasionally goes berserk and beats people.
