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Even then, the Germans seem nice and friendly, at least until Passover, when the persecution of the Jews begins in full force.
Even after the townspeople hear that the Fascists have come into power in Hungary, no one really worries until the Germans actually invade Hungary and arrive at Sighet itself. The Jews do not really consider that anything bad could happen to them, and even though Eliezer asks his father to emigrate to Palestine, his father does not want to start a new life elsewhere. In the spring of 1944, people believe that the Germans will soon be defeated by the Russians, and no one believes that the Nazis could want to exterminate an entire race of people. Eliezer devotes himself to his religious studies, his father busies himself in the Jewish community, and his mother tries to find a husband for Hilda.
He tells Eliezer that he miraculously survived the concentration camps in order to save the Jews in Sighet, but life continues on as normal during 19. Everyone thinks he is trying to win sympathy or has simply gone insane. He tries to warn the townspeople of the atrocities that he has seen, but no one believes him. Several months later, Moché returns, having escaped from a concentration camp in Poland. One day Moché and other non-Hungarian Jews are deported by Hungarian police, but the incident is forgotten by the other Jews and dismissed as a normal wartime practice. Moché teaches him not to search for answers from God, but rather to try to ask the right questions. Despite his father's lack of support, Eliezer decides to study the cabbala anyway and chooses Moché as his teacher. In this passage we learn that Eliezer's father is highly regarded in the Jewish community and pays more attention to outside matters than to family ones we also learn that Eliezer has two older sisters, Hilda and Béa, and a younger one, Tzipora. In 1941, when he is twelve, the narrator, Eliezer Wiesel, wants to study the cabbala (a form of Jewish mysticism), but his father tells him that he is too young. Moché is generally well liked, works in the Hasidic synagogue, and is a very pious and humble individual. Night opens with a brief description of a poor man named Moché the Beadle, who lives in the narrator's hometown of Sighet, Transylvania (modern-day Romania at the time that the novel opens, the town is under Hungarian control). Chapter 1 "They called him Moché the Beadle"
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