The Night opens with the story of Moshe the Beadle. It is probably one of the most painful story of the Jews refusal to believe the Nazi evil. It’s also a cautionary story about Weisel’s own account. Moshe was treated as a lunatic for warning his village about Nazi Massacre. What’s critical for Weisel is that his own evidence for surviving the holocaust not be ignored. Moshe’s example shows that the cost of ignoring the witness of evil is the recurrence of that evil.