Eliezer begins studying the Cabbala with Moché the Beadle, a synagogue custodian who becomes his spiritual mentor.

Moché returns to Sighet after escaping a mass execution and warns the Jewish community, but nobody believes him.

After Nazi forces occupy Hungary, the Jews of Sighet face mounting persecution and are confined to sealed ghettoes.

The Jews of Sighet are ordered from their homes and herded into sealed cattle cars for deportation.

The deportation train arrives at Birkenau as flames shoot from a chimney and the air reeks of burning flesh.

Upon arrival at Birkenau, Eliezer is permanently separated from his mother and sisters in the chaotic gender segregation.

Eliezer's group is marched toward a flaming pit of burning children's bodies; Eliezer considers throwing himself onto the electric fence.

Two steps from the burning pit, the group is suddenly ordered to turn away toward the barracks instead.

Prisoners are stripped, shaved, disinfected, and tattooed with identification numbers, completing their transformation into nameless inmates.

Eliezer and his father are transferred to the Buna work camp and assigned to labor in an electrical warehouse.

A young, beautiful pipel is hanged so slowly he twists alive on the rope for over half an hour.

During Rosh Hashanah prayers at Buna, Eliezer silently rages against God for abandoning the Jewish people to slaughter.

Prisoners are forced to run through a snowstorm for over forty miles from Buna to Gleiwitz, with guards shooting anyone who stops.

An SS guard strikes Eliezer's gravely ill father on the head with a truncheon, fracturing his skull.

American forces liberate Buchenwald; weeks later, Eliezer sees a corpse gazing back at him from a mirror.

Night opens with a young Eliezer devoutly studying Jewish mysticism in Sighet before his world is upended by the Nazi occupation of Hungary. After mounting persecution, his family is deported by cattle car to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where Eliezer is separated from his mother and sisters forever and forced to confront the reality of the crematoria. Life at the Buna work camp strips away what remains of his faith, culminating in his silent rebellion against God during Rosh Hashanah prayers. A brutal winter evacuation march leads the surviving prisoners toward Gleiwitz and then by train to Buchenwald, where Eliezer's father succumbs to illness and an SS guard's fatal blow. The memoir closes with the liberation of Buchenwald and Eliezer's haunting glimpse of himself in a mirror, seeing only a corpse staring back.

The central story of Eliezer's deportation, shattered faith, and survival.

Moché the Beadle and all foreign Jews are expelled from Sighet and deported by train to Poland.

Jewish community leaders in Sighet are arrested, and all Jews are forced to wear the yellow star and obey a strict curfew.

The Jewish Council announces imminent deportation; each person may bring only a backpack and limited food.

Madame Schächter screams repeatedly about a fire outside the train window; desperate deportees beat her into silence.

SS doctor Josef Mengele surveys the newly arrived men at Birkenau, selecting who will live and who will die immediately.

A gypsy Kapo savagely strikes Eliezer's father for politely asking to use the lavatory; Eliezer does not come to his defense.

A prisoner named Stein finds Eliezer at Auschwitz, desperately seeking news of his wife and children; Eliezer lies that they are well.

Kapo Idek beats Eliezer savagely without any cause; a French girl who works alongside him comforts him and gives him bread.

Idek beats Eliezer's father with an iron bar; Eliezer watches without moving, feeling anger at his father rather than the Kapo.

During an American air raid on Buna, a starving prisoner crawls toward an unguarded soup cauldron and is shot dead.

After Rosh Hashanah, an SS selection takes place at Buna and Eliezer's father's prisoner number is quietly recorded for death.

Believing he will die, Eliezer's father presses his only possessions—a knife and spoon—into Eliezer's hands before facing the second selection.

Akiba Drumer loses all faith in God and willingly submits to the selection; his fellow prisoners forget to say the Kaddish for him.

On the train to Buchenwald, a son beats his own father to death over a piece of bread thrown into the car by bystanders.

Eliezer searches the crowded Buchenwald camp for hours and finally finds his feverish father collapsed and begging for coffee.

This pool traces the secondary but essential events that fill in the full arc of Night, beginning with Moché's expulsion from Sighet and the progressive persecution of the Jewish community. The train journey to Auschwitz introduces Madame Schächter's terrifying visions, while arrival at Birkenau brings Mengele's selections and the first brutal encounters with Kapos. At Buna, Eliezer endures random violence from Kapo Idek, forms a brief connection with a relative named Stein, and witnesses the camp's underground economy of cruelty. The tension of the autumn selection nearly costs Eliezer's father his life, and the loss of Akiba Drumer illustrates how faith is the last thread holding the prisoners to survival. The journey to Buchenwald strips away all remaining humanity, and the pool ends with Eliezer desperately seeking his feverish father among the chaos of a new camp.

The people and incidents that shaped Eliezer's ordeal at every stage.

Eliezer's family servant weeps and begs the family to hide with her in safety; Eliezer's father refuses to leave.

A German officer boards the cattle car at the Czech border and announces the deportees are now under German military authority.

A prisoner violently confronts the bewildered new arrivals at Birkenau, declaring they have come to this place to be burned.

Marched from Birkenau to Auschwitz proper, Eliezer reads the inscription 'Work Is Liberty' above the iron entrance gate.

At Buna, Eliezer is assigned to an electrical warehouse and befriends Czech brothers Yossi and Tibi, with whom he sings Hebrew songs.

Foreman Franek demands Eliezer's gold crown and beats his father daily in the work yard until Eliezer finally surrenders the tooth.

Eliezer accidentally discovers Idek having sex in the barracks and is later publicly whipped twenty-five times as punishment.

A young Polish prisoner is publicly hanged for stealing during the air raid; two fellow inmates assist the execution in exchange for soup.

On Yom Kippur, Eliezer refuses to fast and openly eats his ration of soup as a deliberate act of defiance against God.

Eliezer's foot becomes dangerously swollen from the cold and he is admitted to the camp hospital for a draining operation.

When camp evacuation is ordered ahead of the advancing Russian army, Eliezer chooses to march rather than remain in the hospital.

Eliezer realizes Rabbi Eliahou's son deliberately abandoned his weakening father during the march; he prays never to do the same.

In a dark, overcrowded barracks at Gleiwitz, Juliek plays a Beethoven violin concerto beautifully among the dying and the dead.

At Gleiwitz, Eliezer's father is sorted into the death group; Eliezer creates a diversion allowing his father to slip back to safety.

Eliezer's father contracts dysentery at Buchenwald; doctors contemptuously refuse treatment and neighboring prisoners beat him for soiling his bunk.

This pool focuses on the pivotal choices and revelations that mark Eliezer's inner journey, beginning with his father's refusal of a last chance at safety before deportation and the moment the train crosses into German authority. At Birkenau and Auschwitz, Eliezer confronts the reality of the death camp and the systematic erasure of identity, while at Buna he endures specific episodes of coercion, punishment, and spiritual defiance. His deliberate choice to march rather than remain in the hospital proves fateful, and the forced evacuation brings shattering moral realizations about loyalty, abandonment, and the sacred bond between father and son. The pool closes at Buchenwald, where Eliezer watches helplessly as his father's final suffering unfolds and all illusions about survival, justice, and God are extinguished.

The decisions, discoveries, and moral reckonings that define Eliezer's transformation.