Elie Wiesel's Night provides a very chilling account of the author's experiences in the death camps of the Nazis during World War II, related through the eyes of a young boy who witnessed the horrors of the concentration camps and the aftermath of the Nazi's attempts to eradicate Jews from the face of the earth. For the casual reader with no knowledge of the Holocaust, Night illuminates exactly what occurred in the concentration camps, events that have been denied even in today's enlightened world. What Wiesel wishes the reader to take away from his book is quite clear-he wants the reader to understand what he went through as a Jew in the concentration camps and wants to make it as obvious as possible that such a thing as the attempted extermination of a race of human beings never happens again. Through his eyewitness accounts as found in Night, the reader comes to see that what the Nazis perpetrated during World War II was akin to mass murder, based on their depraved and twisted desire to eliminate the Jews from Europe, a desire that at first succeeded on a massive scale with the deaths of over six million Jews, but when the camps were liberated by Russian and American forces, the Nazi's death camps came to an end and their vision of extermination was soon brought to the attention of the world.

             In Night, Wiesel's personal experiences in the Nazi death camps are best portrayed through his numerous quotes found in the book. After being taken by the Nazis from his hometown of Sighet in Transylvania in 1941 to the concentration camp of Birkenau, Elie experiences his first horrors of the Nazis, for in this place, he sees German soldiers throwing living babies into a burning pit and is then given the identification number of A-7713, tattooed into his arm. After being separated from his mother and sisters, Elie and his father are sent to Auschwitz for a short period of time and then are relocated to Buna.