Night; First Chapter Summary

The story takes place in a small town in north Romania named Sighet which is in Transylvania, near the Hungarian border. In that little town lived many Jews. This Jews lived in peace and harmony doing all their religion procedures without any disturbance. Between those Jews lived a boy named Elie that was about to gain 13 years old, he was a very dedicated person toward his religion. During day he studied Talmud and in the night he went to the synagogue to pray.
His father was a very wise person and the Jewish community held him in highest esteem, he gave advice in many aspects to the community. Elie’s parents run a store.
He had 3 sisters which helped to run the store. Elie was very interested in Jewish mysticism and because of that he got to know Moishe the Beadle a shtibl. Moishe was his master in Jewish mysticism. One day all the foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet so Moishe the Beadle went away. Life passed normally through months until one day when Elie was about to enter the synagogue he saw Moishe the Beadle sitting on a bench. He told him that the Gestapo had killed all the Jews, and from that day, he told everyone he could about this tragedy and that people should be aware of danger.
Then the Germans arrived, they stayed in people’s houses and even in Jewish houses. Things started to change, Jewish no longer can go to cafeterias and needed to use a yellow David star, Jewish couldn’t had any jewelry or gold.
Then all the Jews were sent to ghettos, small pieces of the city with walls and no contact with the extern world, their lives became calmer although there was an atmosphere of fear inside the ghetto.
Then Jews were sent to unknown places and the number of Jews in the ghettos started to diminish. Elie and his family were some of the last Jews that were sent to those places.