This is a picture of one of the selection process that is held when prisoners first arrive at a concentration camp. And, at Auschwitz they are usually headed by Joseph Mengele an infamous Nazi doctor. The woman and children are sent straight to the crematory and males younger than 18 and older than 50 are also sent there. This relates to Elie’s story because he went through the same selection process as well he and his father being questioned by Dr. Mengele in which he said he was 18 and his father said he was 30. This photo shows the prisoners of the concentration carrying lorries and working hard like automatons. Auschwitz was a place you had to work hard or you die, it was basically a crucible. When Ellie entered Auschwitz-one he saw prisoners at …show more content…
The way this relates to a part of Elie’s experience is when one day Idek the kapo of Elie’s Komando orders everyone out of the camp and Elie goes to explore why. He discovered that he’s sleeping with a young Polish girl, Elie laughs thinking about the absurdity of moving 100 prisoners to the warehouse just so he can get laid. Idek discovers Elie and gets angry. He gives Elie 25 clouts with the whip in front of the whole block and tells him he will get five times that if he tells anyone what he saw. This is a picture of a prisoner of a concentration camp being hanged for a crime against the Nazi’s with all of the prisoners watching. Elie had a first hand experience of seeing this happen in the work camp Buna. One day the gallows had been set up in the middle of the camp,and all the prisoners were called there. There were many hangings, but Elie described the worst as the hanging of a young boy who is involved in resistance activities. Because he is very light, the hanging doesn’t result in instant death, the prisoners watch the boy as he struggles for some time before he