Early in Night, Moishe the Beadle and other foreign-born Jews are deported out of Sighet on the same cattle cars that will later be used to transport Elie. At the time, the Jews of Sighet assume that the deportees have simply been returned to their home countries, and continue on with their own lives.
Moishe the Beadle is able to escape from his transport and make his way back to Sighet. There, he is desperate to communicate the horrors he has seen -- among them, the use of Jewish babies for machine gun "target practice." The Jews of Sighet cannot fathom such horrors and they assume that Moishe has gone mad. Like Madame Schachter later in the book, the Jews of Sighet largely ignore Moishe the Beadle's warnings.
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