Chlomo, however, passes a second physical exam and is spared from the furnaces. At the next selection, the doctor chooses his father. Elie watches as he dies in a torturously slow manner.ĭespairing, Elie becomes increasingly depressed during Rosh Hashanah services. The cruelty culminates with the guards hanging an adolescent.
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. Cruel guards impose sadistic and erratic punishments. After viewing infants being tossed in a fiery pit, Elie abandons his faith in a God he accuses of remaining silent and indifferent to the atrocities.Įvery day, Elie and his father struggle to maintain their strength in order to remain in the “Fit to work” group. Elie's mother and three sisters disappear into Birkenau, the death camp. Elie and his father, Chlomo, lie about their ages and are moved to the concentration camp at Auschwitz with other able-bodied men. Guards armed with clubs and guns separate Elie's group in to two groups: those fit for labor camps and those damned to the furnaces. Late into day three of the deportation, the group of captives sees terrifying flames rising above huge furnaces and recoils at the stench of burning flesh. Madame Schächter, one of the deportees, becomes hysterical with (prophetic) visions of flames and furnaces. Scores of villagers are crammed together into boxcars with scarcely any food and water to share between them. Elie and his family are shipped as part of the final convoy. The following spring, German and Hungarian authorities begin shipping Jews via cramped trains to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex. Nevertheless, Jewish leaders in Sighet remain relaxed and ambivalent, even after the Jewish people are shuffled into supervised ghettos. After being expelled by the Hungarian police because he was a foreigner, Moché the Beadle returns to the village, narrowly escaping an ambush by the Gestapo, to warn his Jewish brethren of the grave threat posed to them by the coming Nazi invaders. In 1944, Elie Wiesel is a Jewish adolescent who devotes much time and emotion to studying the Talmud and Jewish mysticism under the tutelage of Moché the Beadle in the tiny village of Sighet, Transylvania (Romania).
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