Night is told by Elie who is a Jewish teenager who lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Elie studies the Torah which is the first five books of the old Testament and the Cabbala. He has a teacher named Moshe the Beadle. and she is deported. After a few months Moshe returns, and tells a horrifying story. The Gestapo who was a secret police force out of Germany took over his train, and led everyone into the woods. Then he said that he pretty much killed all of them. When Moshe tells everyone what happens everyone looks at him like a psycho and nobody believes him. Throughout the story it is like a system of Jews being tortured and killed and eventually Elie and his father are separated from his mother and sisters. They are took through some horrible times on a train, and many camps and end up having a scary and remembering night every day.