1. “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. 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.” 6 The Nazis wanted the Jews to feel empty, intimidate them, make them feel like there wasn’t hope in the world, scared towards them. The Nazis also probably just wanted to kill them all for everything to go fast because of how Hitler brainwashed them on everything to Germans being the best to Jews being the cause of all bad in the world.
2. “I wanted to return to Sighet to describe to you my death so that you might ready yourselves
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“The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.” 12 It was ruled by no one, the simply believed that no one was taking over anyone no more. That nothing that was going around them was real just an illusion to the eye.
8. “Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. It was there for the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun” 17 I think Wiesel in this quote was trying to show death in a way, emptiness. All the Jews were taken from their homes and was left to one but to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. Its saying that Jews weren’t going to return back home, that were ever they were taking the Jews from Sighet they weren’t going to return.
9. “The train stopped in Kaschau, a small town on the Czechoslovakian border. We realized then that we were not staying in Hungary. Our eyes opened. Too late” 23 The Jews of Sighet wanted to maintain with hope and optimistic about where they were going that they ignored Mrs. Schechter’s warnings. But that’s what led them there in the first place for not listening to Moishe and to others. The illusions they created for themselves were dangerous. They kept themselves ignorant of what was to come until it was too