The people of Transylvania were receiving many signs that the Holocaust was coming. It was just the beginning and after being taken away, their lives were forever changed. They chose not to believe it and ended up going through it all. Moishe the Beadle also explains what is going to occur and what happened to him and little by little, edicts were placed upon them. Once they were sent to the ghettos, there was no way to escape. Chapter 2: Flames In this chapter, the prisoners were in the box cars full of 80 people, to go to their first concentration camp in Birkenau. While the car was compacted with many people, a lady kept on screaming and pointing that she saw a fire. This lady was sorrowful because she was separated from her family and …show more content…
If they would have told them their actual ages, Elie would have been considered too young and his father too old to work. Also, when they see Stein and he asks them if they remembered him, they said yes. Stein also asks if his family is alive and they told him that they were, not knowing whether they actually were. This helped to keep Stein going and a motive to keep on trying to survive the camp: to be able to see and make sure that his family was okay one day. Elie and his father lied so that they would not get hurt and die at the first selection and told Stein that so that he would still have …show more content…
They made stops to throw out the dead bodies like it meant nothing. Also, a German workman threw some bread in the train car and watched amused as the prisoners fought each other to the death to eat the bread. For a little piece of bread, the men were fighting like animals to receive it. It was also seen in the same car that a son killed his own father for the bread. It was every man for themselves. By the end of the trip, when they arrived in Buchenwald, only a dozen out of the starting train made it out alive. Chapter 8: Free at Last Elie’s father was suffering from dysentery and got beat by the SS soldier and was dying. After all they had been through, this journey through their misery; they had stuck together and been there for one another. Although Elie does not know if his father was sent before or after his death, he was sent to the crematorium. Elie no longer had to take care of him and could now focus on his survival. It was every man for himself and although he was sad, he was not able to cry which disturbed him. Chapter 9: