<P> As the Allies prepared for the liberation of Europe, the mass deportations began at a rate of four trains a day from Hungary to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi - occupied Poland, each train carrying around 3,000 people . Between 15 May and 8 July 1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews are recorded as having been sent there on 147 trains, most gassed on arrival . The transports comprised most of the Jewish population outside Budapest, the Hungarian capital . </P> <P> Between 16 May and 27 June, 131,641 Jews were deported from northern Transylvania . Wiesel, his parents and sisters--older sisters Hilda and Beatrice and seven - year - old Tzipora--were among them . On arrival Jews were "selected" for the gas chamber or forced labour; to be sent to the left meant work, to the right, the gas chamber . Sarah and Tzipora were sent to the gas chamber . Hilda and Beatrice survived, separated from the rest of the family . Wiesel and Chlomo managed to stay together, surviving forced labour and a death march to another concentration camp, Buchenwald, near Weimar in Thuringia . Chlomo died there in January 1945, three months before the 6th Armored Division of the United States Army arrived to liberate the camp . </P> <P> Night opens in Sighet in 1941 . The book's narrator is Eliezer, an Orthodox Jewish teenager who studies the Talmud by day, and by night "weep (s) over the destruction of the Temple". To the disapproval of his father, Eliezer spends time discussing the Kabbalah with Moshe the Beadle, caretaker of the Hasidic shtiebel (house of prayer). </P> <P> In June 1941 the Hungarian government expelled Jews unable to prove their citizenship . Moshe is crammed onto a cattle train and taken to Poland . He manages to escape, saved by God, he believes, so that he might save the Jews of Sighet . He returns to the village to tell what he calls the "story of his own death," running from one house to the next: "Jews, listen to me! It's all I ask of you . No money . No pity . Just listen to me!" </P>

What was the boy's name in night by elie wiesel