An Intentional Hell In this tragic book, Eliezer Wiesel is a young almost teenage Jewish boy. He lives in Sighet with his three sisters, his mother, and his father. Eliezer enjoys studying Talmud and the Kabbalah. There was a poor man called Moishe the Beadle who helped him study these. One day Moishe the Beadle got taken away because he was a foreign Jew. When he escaped he came back and warned everyone about what happened. He told them that at the point where the Gestapo were in charge of the train, all of the Jews there had to dig graves for themselves and then be killed. Nobody in the town believed him and they all just thought he was going crazy. Even when Hungary was full of German Armies the Jews of Sighet thought that it would all …show more content…
Because of the Germans, they all had to wear yellow stars and their valuables were taken. They were moved into two different ghettos before they were taken into cattle cars thinking that they are just being relocated. The cattle cars were torture. A woman named Madame Schächter started shouting about a fire. It frightened everyone including her son. Nobody could see a fire. This went on for days until they finally got to Birkenau. They saw huge furnaces and there was a terrible smell of burning people. Now they realized what Madame Schächter was yelling about. There was their first selection. First, they were split between male and female. After this Eliezer never sees any of his sisters or his mother ever again. They met a prisoner who told them each to lie about their age. Eliezer was to say he was eighteen, and his father that he was forty. Next, they were put into two other groups; in one group you would die in the furnace and in the other group you would live to work. Eliezer and his father both were able to live for …show more content…
It was very harsh considering that they haven’t eaten in three days. When Eliezer’s father is put in the line that will not live Eliezer confuses everybody and they are both able to go in the line for the ones that will live. They then all have to go into cattle cars and throw out all of the dead men. Eliezer’s father was almost mistaken as dead because he was unconscious. Thankfully, Eliezer was able to wake him. The continued staying in the cars for ten days as they moved to Buchenwald. Since the cattle cars were roofless so some people outside of the cars would throw bread in to see people viciously fight for it until death. When the horrifying trip was finally over only twelve men were still alive in Eliezer’s cattle car out of one