Night

✦GODLevel 7 · High School TrackUS Grades 9–12Lexile 570LMemoir · First published 1956

📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Night to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Hill and Wang paperback, translated by Marion Wiesel, ISBN 9780374500016. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →

Subject Personalities

The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.

PRIMARY LENS

📜 The Holocaust in Hungary, 1940–1945

Sighet under Hungarian rule, the German occupation of March 1944, the deportations, Auschwitz and Buna, the death marches and the liberation of Buchenwald — dated history from the Holocaust memorial museums.

SUPPORTING

📖 A Memoir That Bears Witness

A memoir, not a novel: the older narrator looking back, a warning no one believes, night, fire and silence as symbols, a father and son, and an ending in a mirror.

SUPPORTING

🧬 Knowledge Behind the Pages

Hasidic Judaism and the High Holy Days, how synthetic rubber was made, the body in extreme cold, and the museums and archives that keep the record.

8-Part Novel Study

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PT1

Part 1 · Chapter 1

A boy in Sighet who studies the Kabbalah, a warning from a man who came back and was not believed, and the spring of 1944, when the town’s Jewish families are forced into ghettos.

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