What happens to the foreign Jews in Sighet?

The
foreign Jews living in Sighet are the first people persecuted in Elie's small town as the Nazi
influence around their village begins to grow. The Hungarian police herd the foreign Jews into
tightly packed cattle cars and transport them to Galicia. After several months pass, Moishe the
Beadle returns to Sighet and recalls what happened to the foreign Jews who were transported from
town.

Moishe the Beadle tells Elie that once the train crossed into Polish
territory, the Gestapo ordered the prisoners to get out of the cars and begin ushering them onto
trucks, which transported them to the Galician forest, near Kolomay. In the forest, the foreign
Jews were forced to dig ditches before the Gestapo ruthlessly slaughtered them in a hail of
gunfire. Elie recalls Moishe saying,

"Without passion
or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer
their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns"
(Wiesel, 31).

Moishe miraculously survived the firing
squad and managed to return to Sighet to warn the remaining Jews of their impending
fate.