The night was narrated by Eliezer. He was a Jewish teenager living in Hungary. He was only 12 years old. Hungary was invaded by the Nazis in 1944. Soon after, Eliezer and his family were forced to take refuge in the Sighet ghetto along with many other Jews from his city. The trip to Birkenau was horrible. They were loaded onto cattle cars and driven away like animals. They had been traveling for a few days and were on the verge of starvation. When the family arrives, Eliezer and his father are separated from his mother and sister. They will never see them again. One of the most horrible things I read was at the beginning. While Eliezer and his father were walking by a fire pit where the Nazis burned children. Eliezer is soon put to work in an electrical fittings factory. He is treated horribly. He didn't get much food and was constantly beaten. If this wasn't bad enough, prisoners were forced to watch the hangings of others. He began to notice that the prisoners were cruel to each other because all they wanted was to survive. People began to think for themselves. Eliezer still continues to try to help his father in any way he can, but his father dies from abuse. Even Jews were disinfected with gasoline as if they were objects. They wore prisoner clothes. Basically the officer told them to work hard or they would die. Eliezer loses faith in God and all humanity. He no longer sees anything good in the world. Eliezer claims that the Holocaust "murdered his God." He believes that if