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Essay on Night 1941 Elizer is a 12 year old boy living in Transylvanian town of Sighet. He is a Orthodox Jewish. His parents are shopkeepers. He is friends with a man named Moshe the Beadle who is later exiled out of the town and the then later returns to say that the train had been handed over to the Gestapo and the Gestapo were killing all the men, and of coarse they did not believe him. Later the Gestapo arrested all the Jewish people and placed them in ghettoes, then they packed them on trains and departured them to Auschwitz. After another long night of Madame Schachter yelling about fires they finally reached Auschwitz where they were told they were going to stay. Later that night at around midnight the train began to move again and arrived at Birkenau, the reception place for Auschwitz where when they got out of the train they smelt burning flesh in the air. After the women and the men were separated a man came up to Elizer and his father and told them to tell the SS guards that he was 18 and his father was