In the opening chapter the reader learns about the narrator, Eliezer who is 12 years old and living in Sighet, a Transylvanian town. He is the only son in a jewish family with two older sisters. His father is a very respected member of the jewish community and many elders seek his advice on different things.
Eliezer wanted to study Cabbala, a study of the jewish mystical texts. He finds a teacher named Moshe the Beadle. Moshe the Beadle was a local man who was very poor and always stayed out of the way of everyone. Moshe was captured by the axis powers and he returned several months later explaining how the jews were forced to dig mass graves for themselves just before they were shot. Nazi leaders soon came to the town and take over. All of the jews were forced to wear yellow stars and their goods were confiscated. Then the Germans confided them into small areas called ghettos and had many curfews and restrictions. Then, gradually the Nazis shipped the jews off on cattle cars bound for Aushwitz.
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