Elie and his father have successfully made it through the first part of their stay in Auschwitz, which is making sure he looks useful. No longer do you hear of optimism from the group and a few days in the camp, Elie has already become less humane. The first thing he saw was corpses of young children being thrown into fires and after seeing that he becomes far more emotionless.
The people are losing track of time. They do jobs all day for their captors and simply try to stay alive during all of this. They meet a relative from Antwerp named Stein. Elie told him that his family was fine to make him feel better. After this, Stein watched over him and gave him some of his portions to keep him alive. When an transport from Antwerp comes though, Stein hears the real news and is never seen from again.
This is awful treatment and demoralizing for the Jews undergoing these kinds of conditions. This is probably one reason the Germans did this. No one in their right minds could do this kind of stuff to another human. The germans would try and Dehumanize them. Then they weren't killing humans. This was probably the only way they could do such crimes. Even through all of this they still have faith in God. Akiba Drumer says "God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves." (pg. 45) This shows strong faith.
3 comments:
Good summary brian, i like the picture. i think you should have added how elie dads was beaten for asking for the bathroom. other than that, i would say that it was a very good sumamary, and you explained everything well.
Chap,
when you say that they are no longer optimistic, i know exactly what you mean. I find it ironic that originally they were happy at going to Auschwitz. I found this hard to read and understand because it dealt with the emotions that are lacking from my personality. But you explained yours very well. Good job. See ya around
Chap #2
Good summary Brian, I thought it was a good length. Also, I like how you put a picture in it.
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