The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, begins with Jews of Sighet, who are being taken over by the Germans in Transylvania. The Jewish people are forced to begin a journey they never expected.

The author tells of a man who entered life without a name but the town’s people called him Moishe the Beadle. He a homeless man, who stayed out of people’s way and bother no one. Moishe the Beadle had apparently mastered the art of remaining invisible and appearing insignificant among others. He spoke little and would chant about the suffering of the Shekhin in Exile. A young boy who had seen Moishe the Beadle in the Synagogue thought he was unique. The boy wanted to have him as a master, one who would teach him the Jewish Zorah, the Kabbalistics works, even though his father said he was too young. So the boy talked to Moishe the Beadle about being his master and the Moishe the Beadle started helping him. Moishe the Beadle said “not learn it by heart but to discover within the very essence of divinity”, so he helped the boy enter the Jewish mysticism. Moishe the Beadle was taken by the Hungarian police one day and was sent on a train where he crossed the boarder into the Polish land. In Poland, he was sent on a truck to the Galician forest where he and other Jewish people were made to dig a trench. One by one, each prisoner was forced to run to the trench as the Germans shot at them. Moishe the Beadle had survived and made it to town where he told the town’s people in the Synagogue the day he got back. He told them that the Germans were coming and about his narrow escape back to the town. Upon hearing his account, the town’s people started to think he was insane and began to dislike him because they could not believe such an atrocity could ever happen.
Few Jewish people gave much thought of the Germans coming to their town. Many people thought that the Germans would only occupy their town for a short time, since the red army would liberate them. The town’s people believed the red army would keep the Germans from taking them away. The Jewish people’s hopes were shattered when they told to gather all of there things into one back pack and prepare to leave the next day. The next day, the Jewish people were moved to the smaller ghetto, and they were no longer in there own homes. They were forced to live with cousins and other people in homes that had windows sealed shut.
After a few days in the ghetto, they were the last ones in the town to depart. They had agreed to leave by themselves after they were checked for gold, jewelry and other valuables, which the Germans ordered them to give up. So, the last group of town’s people started walking and could only wonder where they would end up.