Night Entry 1

Night is a book based on the experience of a Holocaust survivor in present-day Hungary. The main character named Elie, has a friend that escaped from a kidnap of the Germans named Mose the Beadle. He suffers for the destruction of a synagogue in his hometown, Sighet. The story takes place in 1944, one year before World War II ended. Many of the Hungarians believed that Hitler would never send an army to get the Jews in Hungary. However, by that same year, the Nazi's reach Hungary's capital, Budapest and eventually their hometown.