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in this terrifying account of the horror that was the Nazis Final Solution a young Jewish boy is turned in agonized witness to the death of his family the death of his innocence the death of his God first published in French in nine 58 night is one of the great works of Holocaust literature by one of its foremost survivors winner of the Nobel Peace the author of over 30 books and chairman of President Reagan's Commission on the Holocaust Elie Wiesel has dedicated his life as one never has remarked to being a messenger from the Jewish dead to the living  put his own words to remain silent and India is the greatest sin of all with his writing and his tireless work as an activist and commentator buzzell has made an extraordinary contribution toward keeping the memory of this unimaginable atrocity alive and Ford making sure that it never happens again at now night they called him play kid the beetle as if his entire life he had never had a surname  he was a jack-of-all-trades in a casita House of Prayer the Jews of secret the little town in Transylvania where I spent my childhood we're fond of him he was poor and lived in as a rule I would townspeople while they did help the needy did not particularly like bicycle Beetle poison exception you stay out of people's way is President's bothered mastered the art of rendering insignificant  physic he was as a clown is like people smile that's for me I like to Dreamy eyes did the distance  he spoke with the same or rather he chanted and a few snatches I caught him there spoke of divine suffering avecina in Exile with according to Kabbalah it awaits its Redemption linked to that of man I met him in 1940 I was almost 13 and deeply observant by day I study Tom Wood and my night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction the temple  one day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah  you're too young for that maimonides tells us that one must be certain before venturing into the world of mysticism a world fraught with Peril first you must study the basic subject those you are able to comprehend  my father was a cultured man rather unsentimental he rarely displayed his and was more involved with the welfare of his own King  the Jewish community of secret pleistocene  please advise on public and even private matters I was the food and the only son to put up with the youngest  my parents ran to store Hilda and be helped with the word heads for me my place was in the house of study or so they said there are no kabbalists insulated my father would often tell me how to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind I succeeded on my own and finding a master for myself play should the Beatles why do you cry when you pray he does though he knew me well I don't know I answered troubled  I never asked myself that question I cried because because inside me feel the need to cry that was all you  why do you play theater moment  play I pray strange question why did I live why did I breathe  I don't know I told him good more troubled and ilities  I don't know  from that day on to me was great emphasis that every question possess the power that was lost in the answer man comes closer to so the questions he asks him he like to say therein lies true dialogue man asks and God replies we don't understand his replies we cannot understand them because in the deaths of our souls until we die the real answers aliasing you will find only within yourself do I do you pray much I asked  I pray to the God within me  for the strength to ask him the real questions  we spoke that way almost every evening remaining in the synagogues after all the gun sitting in the semi-darkness we're only a few half burnt candles provided a flickering light  one evening I told him how unhappy I was not to be able to find in Seeking a master to teach me to know how the kabbalistic works the secrets of Jewish mysticism he smiled indulgently after a long silence he said there are a thousand and one Gates allowing into the orchard of mystical truth  every human being has his own gate he must not and wish to enter the orchard to a date other than his own that would present a danger not only for the one entering but for those who are already inside  how much is the beetle the poorest of the poor of secret spoke to me for hours on end about the Cabela's Revelations and its Mysteries thus began my initiation we would read over and over again the same page of the Zohar but to discover within the very essence of divinity play the course of those evenings I became convinced that most of the Beatles would help me enter eternity that time when can an answer one day old foreign Jews were expelled from inverted The Beatles candy to cattle cars by the Hungarian police they cried signs on the station platform we too were crying the train disappeared over the horizon find me someone said sign what do you expect that's War the deportees will quickly is after they left it was rumored that they were invented working and even that they were content with a fade days went by then weeks and months life was normal again reassuring wind blew through our homes the shopkeepers were doing good business the students word among the books and the children played in the streets one day as I was about to enter the synagogue Insidious  he told me what happened to him and his companions  the train with the deportees at Cross Marion border and what's in Portage territory I've been taken over by the Gestapo stop the Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks the trucks headed toward the forest where everybody was ordered to get out they were forced to dig huge trenches the men from the Gestapo begins without passion or haste they shot their business who were forced to approach the trench one play one and don't play the next  infants were tossed into the air and use this targets for the machine guns this took place in the galaxy in forest  how had he much of the Beatles able to escape  play America he was wounded in the leg in Left 4 Dead  day after day night after night he went from one Jewish house did the next telling his story and the young girl who Lay Dying for three days and a Toby the tailor who beg to die before his sons were killed Russia was not the same the joy in his eyes we've gone Pino long he no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah  he spoke only about hits but people not only refused to believe his tales the refused to listen some things photos fat reset video gun  estimation he wept and pleaded listen to me that's all I ask of you just listen to me the caption between prayer and evening  even I did not provisions double check with him after services and listened to his tales trying to understand his grief  but all I felt was pretty they think I'm mad they would fit and tears eye drops for dogs when's I ask question  why do you want people to believe you so much and your place I would not care whether they believe me or not desire to escape you don't understand he said in despair you can understand I was miraculously I succeeded in coming back where did I get my strength I wanted to return to see this are you my desk to let you my credit is still time I can't believe I'm alone but I wanted to come back to one only no one is listening to me  this two of the end of 1942 play master LifeSimmer once again listen to every evening news the deadly bombings of Germany and the preparation of the second and so we the Jews of secret waited for better days that you were soon to come  I continue to devote myself to my studies, doing day and Cabela night my father took care of his business and the community baby abortion  my mother was beginning to think it was high time to find an appropriate match for him  best pass the year 1943 string 1944 Sprint turn the Russian front Germany would be defeated it was only a matter of time so weeks the trees were in bloom it was a year like so many others when it's spring its engagements it's weddings and its birth the people were saying the Red Army is advancing with giant strides not be able to harm us even if he wants to  yes we even doubted his resolve to exterminators annihilate people Wipeout a puppy dispersed throughout So Many Nations so many millions of people in the middle this my other concern themselves with all manner of things strategy diplomacy politics and Zionism but not with their own fate  even much of the beatle had fallen silent he was weary of talking Cristiano Gaga's with the streets Stover eyes cast down the voting People series  in those days it was still go to buy emigration certificates to Palestine I'd ask my father to sell everything to liquidate everything and to leave I'm too old my son the answer too old to start a new life too old to start from scratch in some distant land Budapest radio announced that the fascist Party Hit seed Powers the Regent because he was forced to ask a leader of the pro not seen you lost party to form a new government  we still would not worried of course we had heard of the fascists but it was all in the abstract go to us then it changes Ministry  the next day bro really describe German troops had penetrated hung guy territory  people begin to worry about go to my friends Marshall return from the channel for Passover and told us the Jews of Budapest the movie of the fascists attack Jewish stores Since the situation is becoming very serious  the news spread through sighet wildfire  but natural optimism soon revived the Germans will not come thought they were saying Budapest for strategic reasons for political reasons  in less than three days German vehicles on our streets  Vanquish German soldiers weather the helmets in a death's-head emblem still our first impressions of the Germans would rather reassuring the officers would better hit in private homes their hosts was distant from The Impossible German officer large in the Khan's house across the street from us we were told he was a likable three days after he moved in he brought his box of chocolates The Optimist you wouldn't believe us what do you say now  the Germans were already in our the fascists were already in power the verdict was already out  for the Jews of sighet were still smiling the eight days of Passover  the weather was Sublime by mother was busy the synagogues we no longer open people gathered in private homes no need to provoke the Germans  how does every rabbi's home became a House of Prayer Frank we ate we sign the Bible commands us to Rejoice during the eight days of Celebration  Bella Hadid we wish the holiday would end so as not to have to pretend  on the 7th day of Passover  the curtain the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community  black mold on everything happens the race toward death had begun 50 degrees with prohibited from leaving the residences for 3 Days under penalty of Moshe the Beadle came running to our house I heard you left without waiting for response  the same the Hungarian police burst into every Jewish Home in town was henceforth forbidden to own gold jewelry or any valuables everything to be handed over under penalty of death  if I went down to The Cellar and bury no savings as for my mother tending to the house  sometimes she would stop and gaze at us in silence  three days later on YouTube free every Jew have to wear the yellow star  some prominent members of the community came to consult with my father food connections at the Opera LeBron Gary in police they wanted to know what he thought of the situation my father's you was that it was not old leak or brats he just did not want to discourage the other throw salt on the rules  the yellow star so what it's not lethal put father  Evelyn did you die  but new edicts for already then you should we no longer the right to frequent restaurants or cafes to travel by rail to attention to be on the streets after 6 in the evening then came to get us Togo's who created insignia the large one in the center of town occupied for another one extended over several Alleyways on the outskirts of down the street we lived on Play If I Could remain in our house but the windows facing the street outside the ghetto have to be sealed play games some of our rooms the relatives who have been driven out of it  little by little life returned to normal the barbed wire that in what does like a wolf in France a Jewish Council was appointed as well as a Jewish police force I work agency a labor committee health agency people thought this was a good thing we would no longer have to look at all those hostile faces then doing those hate-filled stairs no more fear no more anguish we would live among Jews among Brothers of course they're still wear unpleasant moments everyday Germans came looking for men to load coal into the military trains volunteers for this kind of work with you but apart from that the atmosphere reassuring  most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war until the arrival of the Red Army after weird everything is before the ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew it was ruled by delusion  some two weeks Porsche boat  the sunny spring day people strolled seemingly care for you through the crowded streets they exchanged cheerful greetings children rolling hazelnuts in the sidewalks some School Layton Azran Alex Garden studying the treatise  night 1020 people had gathered in the courtyard by father was sharing some anecdotes and holding forth on his opinion of the situation shouldn't the gate opened and Stern a former shopkeeper who now is a policeman entered and took my father's side  dislike when ductus I could see my father turned pale what's wrong I don't know I have been summoned to a special meeting of the council something with the store he had interrupted would remain unfinished  I'm going right now he said I'll return as soon what's the average weight for me we were ready to wait as long as necessary the courtyard turned into something like an antechamber to an waiting room we stood waiting for the door to open  neighbors hearing rumors had joined us we stared at watches at slow down what was the meaning of set alarm session  I have a bad feeling said my mother  this afternoon I saw new faces together to German officers I believe in Vegas since we've been here we have not seen a single it was close to midnight nobody felt like going to sleep though some people briefly went to check on there others left but as to be called as soon as my father returned  at last the door opened and he appeared his face who is draining the color he was quickly surrounded a sad moment we were so anxious to hear something a few words telling us that it was nothing to worry about it at the meeting have been just a review of welfare and health problems but one glance at my father's that's dumb.  The news is terrible he said it first and then one word  transport the get it was to be liquidated entirely  departures went to take place Street by Street starting the next day we wanted to know everything every detail we were stunned we wanted to fully absorb news when will they take that's the secret a secret for all except one the president of the Jewish Council but he would not tell or couldn't the Gestapo I threatened to shoot him if he talked  there are rumors my father said his voice breaking that we are taken somewhere and hungry to work in the brick factories it seems that here too close to the front actor moment's silence he added each of us would be allowed to bring his personal belongings a backpack some food few items of clothing again heavy signs  don't wake the neighbors said my father they must give the Shadows around me Rouse themselves as if from a deep sleep and left something in every direction the moment we remained alone 74 Libras skilled Windows outside  it was only after the war that I found out who had knocked them was an inspector of a Hungarian police a friend of my father's  before we entered the ghetto via told us don't worry I warn you if there is danger how do you been able to speak to us that night we might still have been able to free  by the time you succeeded in opening the window it was too late there was nobody outside  to get it was awake I went into the house at one of my father's friends I woke the head of the household a man with a great beard and the Gaze of agreement his back was hunched over from untied Spence get upset you must be yourself tomorrow you will be in your family you would all the other Jews wear to please don't ask me set alarm for 9  had no idea what I was talking about it he probably thought I had lost my mind get ready for the gym what is it  half asleep he was staring at me his eyes filled with tenet so he expected me to burst out laughing tell him to go back to bed to sleep dream that nothing had happened my throat was dry and the words were choking paralyzing my lips there was nothing else to say  the last semester Play Better Together dress automatically  then he went over to the veterans wife they sleeping  I would invite the tenderness Touch Too Far open your eyes and it seemed to me that a small crosswords  then we went to wake his two children they woke with a start from their dreams  my flight time went by quickly it was already 4 in the morning I thought it was running why does my exhausted Consulting friends checking with the Jewish Council just in case the order had been rescinded the winning with boiling eggs roasting meat preparing cakes sewing backpacks the children were wandering about aimlessly not knowing what to do with themselves The Groves how a backyard looks like a Marketplace are the dusty grounds I hate in the morning wearing this at settled into our veins our limbs our brains like molten lead  I was in the midst of prayer when neither was shouting in the speech I put me on my factories and ran to the window sitting in this week nearby outside they were followed by Jewish police who their voices breaking told us the time has come Hungarian Police use their rifle butts their clubs to indiscriminate old men women children cripples  one by one the house is and the streets filled with people coming bundles  by 10 everyone was outside  the police were taking roll calls twice twenty times the heat was oppressive Swift stream from people's faces and bodies  children with what's the water  there was water close by inside the houses the backyards but it was forbidden to break right some of the Jewish police searches my sisters and I were still allowed to move about as we were destined black Convoy Seafood address at 1 in the afternoon came the signal to the there was joy joy people must have thought there would be no greater torment in God's Hill set up being stranded here on the sidewalk I'm in the bundles in the middle of the speech under a blazing sun  anything seems preferable to that they began to walk without another glance at the abandoned streets the dead empty houses the garden the tombstones  everyone's back there was in everyone's eyes tears and distress  slowly heavily the procession Advanced toward the Gate of the year and there I was on the sidewalk past able to move Duquesne the chief hunched over his face strange-looking without a presence in the procession was enough to make the scene scene it was like a page torn from a book historical novel press dealing with the Captivity in Babylon but the Spanish Inquisition the other friends a gwin's feared some of who might sound ridiculous all those whose lives I had shoes  Betty went receipt the bundles their lives and Tow having left behind their homes the childhood they passed me by like beating dogs glance in my direction they must have been with  the procession Superior on the corner a few steps more and they were Beyond The Ghetto Walls  the street resembled Fairgrounds desert in haste everything suitcases painted portraits finally that's behind open rooms everywhere anything doors and windows look out into the play it all belongs to everyone since they no longer belong to anyone  for the taking an open Tomb the Summer sun spin spin today food  but we were not really hungry we were exhausted  my father had a company to deportees as far as the Gators game  play herded through the main synagogue where they were thoroughly searched to make sure they were not carrying gold silver stereo and how it grows what is the hour 10s my phone  the day after tomorrow unless America's Best  where were the people being taken did anyone know yet no the secret was well kept night at phone  that evening we went to bed early my father said to me too nothing will happen until the day after tomorrow Tuesday Monday went by like a small summer cloud dream in the first hours of dawn  intent and preparing our backpacks and baking Breads and cakes I thought about anything Duluth  stud evening have a mother made us go to bed early to conserve our strength she said  it was to be the last night spent in I was up at dawn I wanted to have time to pray before leaving my father had written before all of us to see confirm in town it would turn around 8 good news we were not leaving town today we were only moving to the small girl that is where we were to for the last transport will be the last to leave at 9 the previous Sunday in scenes were repeated listen wielding clubs we're shopping we were ready  I want up first I did not want to look at parents faces I did not want to break into tears we remain sitting in the middle of the street hellish son the same first only there was no one left to bring us water  I look at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah imagining what my life would be like later did I say little sex my mind was empty get up roll call we stood we were counted we sat down we got up again over and over  we waited impatiently to be taken away what were they waiting for  finally hurricanes for March  my father was crying  that is the first time I saw him cry possible  that's why my mother she was walking her face a mask without a word I look at my little Sakura the blonde hair and the red coat over her arm on her back add to heavy for her she was clenching teeth she already knew it was useless to complain  even there the police will lasting out what clubs left the journey has just begun and I already feel so weak Hungarian Toby's was screaming  back was when I begin to hate them  and my hatred remains our only link today they would our first depressants they were the first faces of hell and death they ordered us to run who were the Salted we were so strong from behind their windows for behind the shutters our fellow citizens watched as we passed  we finally arrived at I would just a nation throwing down a bundle as we dropped to the ground oh God mixture of universe and your internet compassion have mercy the small guitar  only three days ago people were living people who owned the things we were using they've been expelled and we had already forgotten all about them  the cast was even greater in Alaska evidence evidence we have been caught by surprise  I visited the rooms that have been occupied by my uncle Mendel's family  on the table finished bowl of soup a platter of dough waiting to be everywhere on the floor they were books  Malcolm X we settled in what a word  I went looking for would my sisters live it's 15 my mother begin to prepare meal  we cannot give up we cannot give up she kept repeating morale was not so bad we were beginning to get used to the situation they were running out of time to express argued sadly for those would already been deported it'll be too late  as for us chant is where that we would be allowed to go on without a little until the end of the war the gator was not pleased shopping she begged us to come with her to her Village we should prepare to save shelter my father wouldn't hear of it he told me and my big sisters wish Google I shall stay here with your mother-in-law  naturally we refuse to be separated night  no one was praying for the night to pass quickly the stars were but Sparks of the immense country Rachel it was consuming us where this consecration to be extinguished one day nothing would be left in the sky been extinct stars and unseen eyes there was nothing else to do but to go to bed in the bed those we need to rest together  add a break the group listed the mood was more confident they were those who said who knows they may be sending us away the front is getting closer we shall soon hear the guns and then surely the civilian population. anyways  they were a lest we join the partisans as far as I'm concerned this whole business of deportation just want to steal valuables and jewellery they know that it has all been buried in that they would have to dig to find it so much easier to do when the owners are on vacation on vacation  this kind of talk that nobody believed helped pass the time  the few days we spend here pleasantly enough in relative calm people rather than  they're no longer was any distinction between rich and poor notables and the others are all people condemned to the same set still unknown  Saturday it rest was the date Chozen for our expulsion  the night before we had set down to the traditional Friday night meal when said the customary bless the bread in the wine and the food in silence we sensed that we were driving around the video table for the last time going over memories and ideas and was unable to fall asleep the dawn Weaver Industries ready to leave this time tripping agreed that the Jewish Council would handle everything by itself our Convoy headed toward the main synagogue the town scene but behind the shutters our friends of yesterday we're probably waiting for the moment when they could lose our homes the synagogue resemble the large Railroad Station tears the wall coverings shredded there were so many of us we could hardly the 24 hours we spent it with her in the men were downstairs the women of state with Saturday Sabbath  and it was as though we were there to attend services  forbidden to go outside people relieve themselves in the corner the next morning we walk toward the station with a convoy of cattle cars was waiting  the Hungarian police made us climb into persons in each water they check the window to make sure they would not come loose one person was placed in charge of every car if someone managed to escape that person would be shot  do gestapo officers stroll what's the length of the platform they were all smiles All Things Considered  a prolonged whistle pierced the air the wheel begin to grind we were on our way

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