Fighting for air, Eliezer discovers that he is lying on top of Juliek, the musician who befriended him in Buna. Eliezer soon finds that he himself is in danger of being crushed to death by the man lying on top of him.
He finally gains some breathing room, and, calling out, discovers that his father is near. Eliezer falls asleep to this music, and when he wakes he finds Juliek dead, his violin smashed. After three days without bread and water, there is another selection. In the confusion that follows, both Eliezer and his father are able to sneak back over to the other side. The prisoners are taken to a field, where a train of roofless cattle cars comes to pick them up. The prisoners are herded into the cattle cars and ordered to throw out the bodies of the dead men.
The train travels for ten days and nights, and the Jews go unfed, living on snow. As they pass through German towns, some of the locals throw bread into the car in order to enjoy watching the Jews kill each other for the food. Eliezer then flashes forward to an experience he has after the Holocaust, when he sees a rich Parisian tourist in Aden a city in Yemen throwing coins to native boys. Eliezer then returns to his narration of the German townspeople throwing bread on the train.
An old man manages to grab a piece, but Eliezer watches as he is attacked and beaten to death by his own son, who in turn is beaten to death by other men. One night, someone tries to strangle Eliezer in his sleep. His own experience of genocide drove him to speak out on behalf of oppressed people throughout the world. Wiesel was 15 years old when the Nazis deported him and his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
His mother and younger sister died in the gas chambers on the night of their arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He and his father were deported to Buchenwald where his father died before the camp was liberated on April 11, Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. Liberated from Buchenwald in by advancing Allied troops, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist. In , he published his first book, La Nuit, a memoir of his experiences in the concentration camps.
His father died of starvation and dysentery in the Buchenwald camp. Two other sisters survived. After the war, Mr Wiesel lived in a French orphanage and went on to become a journalist. He also directed horrific experiments on human subjects at the camp. Maria is a fictional character in the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
Maria is shown to have a friendly relationship with Sir Toby Belch, and exhibits a witty attitude. Maria forges a letter, apparently from Olivia, declaring love for Malvolio. Who was Martha? What happened when she visited the Wiesel family in the ghetto? She offered a safe refuge in her village but their father refused and said him and his sisters could go but they refused to be seperated.
Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz. Grandfather Dodye went first, when he and his three sons and their children where taken away in Only Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists falsely claimed that Poland had been planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany and that Poles were persecuting ethnic Germans.
The Germans wanted the British government to ignore the Treaty of London and let the German army pass through Belgium. In the end, Britain refused to ignore the events of 4 August , when Germany attacked France through Belgium. At midnight on the third day of their deportation, the group looks in horror at flames rising above huge ovens and gags at the stench of burning flesh.
Guards wielding billy clubs force Elie's group through a selection of those fit to work and those who face a grim and improbable future. Elie and his father Chlomo lie about their ages and depart with other hardy men to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. Elie's mother and three sisters disappear into Birkenau, the death camp.
After viewing infants being tossed in a burning pit, Elie rebels against God, who remains silent. Every day, Elie and Chiomo struggle to keep their health so they can remain in the work force. Sadistic guards and trustees exact capricious punishments. After three weeks, Elie and his father are forced to march to Buna, a factory in the Auschwitz complex, where they sort electrical parts in an electronics warehouse.
The savagery reaches its height when the guards hang a childlike thirteen year old, who dies slowly before Elie's eyes. Despairing, Elie grows morose during Rosh Hashanah services. At the next selection, the doctor culls Chlomo from abler men. Chlomo, however, passes a second physical exam and is given another chance to live.
Elie undergoes surgery on his foot.
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