1._____________ ("Eliezer" to his family) grew up in the town of Sighet Transylvania. The only son of shopkeeper parents, he was the third of four children. In 1941 when Wiesel was 12 he spent a lot of time with Moishe the Beadle, who guided him in 2.______________. One day he and all the other foreign Jews were 3.________________. When he returned several months later people refused to 4._______________. He described how the foreign Jews had been sent to Poland and systematically 5.___________. Wounded in the leg, Moishe was taken for dead and managed to escape. In the Spring of 1944, the townspeople of Sighet were optimistic that 6.___________ would soon be defeated. Wiesel failed to persuade his father to sell out and emigrate with the family to 7._______________ Then 8.___________ soldiers suddenly appeared in Sighet. A week later the leaders of the Jewish community were 9.__________ and Jews were ordered not the leave their houses. Three days later every Jew was told to wear a 10.___________ star. Next, two 11._________ were set up, surrounded by barbed wire. Finally, the Gestapo gave the deportation order and the Jews were crammed into 12._________ 13.____________, eighty people per car. Madame Schachter, a woman with a young 14.__________, lost her mind and began screaming at intervals about the 15.________ that only she could see. The train reached Birkenau, the reception center for 16. _________________ there were the flames for all to see, rising from tall 17._____________.