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A sunny spring day, people strolled seemingly carefree through the crowded streets (12).

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Night fell. . .Despite the growing darkness, I could see my father turn pale (12).

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"It was close to midnight. Nobody felt like going to sleep. . .he appeared. His face was drained of color" (13).

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"They must get ready. . .The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction" (14).

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"Time went by quickly. It was already four o'clock in the morning. My father running left and right. . .women were boiling eggs. . .our backyard looked like a marketplace. . .pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky" (15).

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"At last. . .came the signal to leave. There was joy, yes, joy. People. . .stranded here. . .under a blazing sun" (16).

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"They were beyond the ghetto walls. . .open rooms everywhere. . .it was there for the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun" (17).

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"Night had fallen. That evening we went to bed early. Sleep peacefully, children. Nothing will happen until the day after tomorrow, Tuesday" (18).

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¨it was to be the last night spent in our house.¨ page 18

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"Night. No one was praying for night to pass quickly."
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"The same hellish sun. The same thirst," (pg.19).

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Night. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. . .At daybreak, the gloom had lifted. . .There were those who said: 'Who knows, they may be sending us away for our own good'" (21).

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"Fire!. . .Some pressed against the bars to see. There was nothing. Only the darkness of night" (25).

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"the night seemed endless"26

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In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh. It must have been around midnight. We had arrived. In Birkenau. (28)

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"Were this confligeration to be extingushied one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes."

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"At daybreak, the gloom had lifted. The mood was more confident."
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"I shall never forget that night that turned my life into one long night 7 times sealed."34

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The night had passed completely. The morning star shone inthe sky. I too had become a different person. The student ofTalmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. Allthat was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had beeninvaded—and devoured—by a black flame.So many events had taken place in just a few hours that I hadcompletely lost all notion of time. When had we left our homes?And the ghetto? And the train? Only a week ago? One night? Onesingle night?How long had we been standing in the freezing wind? Onehour? A single hour? Sixty minutes?Surely it was a dream. 37

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The night had passed completely. The morning star shone inthe sky. I too had become a different person. The student ofTalmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. Allthat was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had beeninvaded—and devoured—by a black flame.So many events had taken place in just a few hours that I hadcompletely lost all notion of time. When had we left our homes?And the ghetto? And the train? Only a week ago? One night? Onesingle night?How long had we been standing in the freezing wind? Onehour? A single hour? Sixty minutes?Surely it was a dream. 37

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Never shall I forget that night;the first night in camp.
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And as the train stopped, this time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky.
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on the third night as we were sleeping some of us sitting heard a piecing cry shouting fire! I see a fire!

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"Sleep peacefully children. Nothing will happen until after tomorrow, Tuesday."