![]() ![]() However, no one in Sighet believes him, and he is taken for a lunatic. He also narrates how the Jews were forced to dig mass graves for themselves and were subsequently killed. ![]() He narrates how trains full of Jewish prisoners were handed over to the Gestapo near the border of Poland. A few months have passed Moshe escapes from the captivity and returns to Sighet to tell a grisly tale. ![]() Momentarily, this anti-Semitic act draws the anger of Jews in Sighet but soon they forget about it. Soon, the Hungarians banish all foreign Jews, including Moshe. Eliezer takes lessons from a sensitive but challenging teacher, Moshe the Beadle, a local pauper. It is unusual for a preteen and Eliezer’s father is also not very happy about it. He studies the Talmud - the Jewish oral law - and the mystical Jewish texts of Cabbala (spelled Kabbalah). Eliezer has three sisters: two older sisters, Hilda and Bee, and Tripura, the younger. Eliezer’s father is a highly respected person in Sighet’s Jewish community. The 12 year old is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family, all of whom are shopkeepers by profession. In 1941, Eliezer, the narrator of the story, is a preteen boy from Sighet, a Transylvanian town annexed by Hungary but now part of Romania. ![]()
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