Friday, March 14, 2014

Meet Moshe the Beetle

Moshe the Beetle


Moshe the Beetle was a poor man in Seghet. The people of Sighet were not particularly fond of the poor, but this poor man was well like to by the town's people. He was a "master at the art of making himself invisible" (pg. 3). He became Elizer's guide in the ways of the Cabbala. The day came when foreign Jews were "expelled" from Without warning, foreign jews were "expelled" from Sighet, by way of train. 
Moshe was the only survivor who was able to return and share they horrifying reality of brutality and death. Unfortunately, Elizer's former religious mentor was now seen as a lunatic and no one was willing to listen to the craziness of his demented stories that just cound not be true.