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“ “Mother is still a young woman," my father once said. "She must be in a labor camp. And Tzipora, she is a big girl now. She too must be in a c a m p ... "

How we would have liked to believe that. We pretended, for what if one of us still did believe?” (Wiesel 46).

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"Ten more steps. Eight.
Seven. We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse, our own
funeral procession." (Wiesel 33)

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“In one terrifying moment of lucidity, I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either.” (Wiesel 36).

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“In one terrifying moment of lucidity, I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either.” (Wiesel 36).

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“So many events had taken place in just a few hours that I had completely lost notion of time. When had we left our homes? And the ghetto? And the train? Only a week ago? One night? One single night? How long had we been standing in the freezing wind? One hour? A single hour? Sixty minutes? It must be a dream.” (Pg 37)

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Elie's initial reaction after soldier strikes his father

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Elie's initial reaction after soldier strikes his father

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"Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal's flesh," (Weisel 39).

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"What irony. Was there here a single place where one was NOT in danger of death?" 40

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"What irony. Was there here a single place where one was NOT in danger of death?" 40

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"Here, you must work. If you don't you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or  crematorium--choice is yours." (Wiesel 39)

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"Here, you must work. If you don't you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or  crematorium--choice is yours." (Wiesel 39)

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“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”page 109

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“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”page 109

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May His name be celebrated and sanctified..." whispered my father. For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

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May His name be celebrated and sanctified..." whispered my father. For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

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page 33

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"How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?"

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"How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?"

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(Wiesel 32)

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“Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast? Remorse began to gnaw at me. All I could think was: I shall never forgive them for this.” (Wiesel 39)

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“Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast? Remorse began to gnaw at me. All I could think was: I shall never forgive them for this.” (Wiesel 39)

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“The student of

Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All

that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been

invaded—and devoured—by a black flame.

” (Wiesel #37).

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“The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain.”

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“The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain.”

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“Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (Pg 34)

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“Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.” (Wiesel 34)

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“How we would have liked to believe that. We pretended, for what if one of us still did believe?” (Wiesel #46)

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“How we would have liked to believe that. We pretended, for what if one of us still did believe?” (Wiesel #46)

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"I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake?...No. All this could not be real” (Wiesel 32)

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“I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe.” (Wiesel 38)

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“I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe.” (Wiesel 38)

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“Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast?” (Wiesel 39).

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"Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God
and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes." (Wiesel 34)

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“That SS officer in the muddy barrack must have been lying: Auschwitz was, after all, a convalescent home…” (Wiesel 42)

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“I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was itpossible that men, women, and children were being burned andthat the world kept silent? No. All this could not be real. A night-mare perhaps…” (Wiesel 32)

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“I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was itpossible that men, women, and children were being burned andthat the world kept silent? No. All this could not be real. A night-mare perhaps…” (Wiesel 32)

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Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky

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“Our one goal was to avoid the transports, to stay here as long as possible.” (Wiesel #44).

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“Our one goal was to avoid the transports, to stay here as long as possible.” (Wiesel #44).

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Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever

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"I watched darkness fade through the bluish skylights in the
roof. I no longer was afraid. I was overcome by fatigue." (Wiesel 36)

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"Then, as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours.  I stood petrified." (Wiesel 39)

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"Then, as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours.  I stood petrified." (Wiesel 39)

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"For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?" (Wiesel 33)

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Take care of your son. He is very weak, very dehydrated.Take care of yourselves, you must avoid selection. Eat! Anything,anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don't last very long aroundhere... "

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Take care of your son. He is very weak, very dehydrated.Take care of yourselves, you must avoid selection. Eat! Anything,anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don't last very long aroundhere... "

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Ivan

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“Men to the left! Women to the right. Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight short, simple words. Yet that was the moment when I was parted from my mother.” (Wiesel 40).

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“Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live” (Wiesel 34).

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"Never shall i forget those things even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself."(Wiesel 34)