The crematories in the concentration camp serve as factories of death. The big, fiery furnace is where those who do not make the selection are sent. The threat of being sent to the crematory is likened to being sent to the grave. As the prisoners witness the burning of babies, they begin to recite the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. Elie stated “I don’t know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves” (Wiesel 33) to indicate how the threat of death was so imminent that the Jews recited the prayer for their own souls. In hopes that someone said a prayer for Piggy’s soul as he “fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came