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When Elie woke up he went to see his father's cell only to find out that he was gone. The guards must've took him before day-break and took him to the crematorium to kill him since he was so weak and brittle. While he was sad he could not show emotions because he was out of tears and felt empty inside.

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When the Nazi guards were literally throwing bread at the prisoner Jews and making them act like wild animals was very disturbing to me because these guards were treating these people like objects and they did this to the Jews for entertainment. "A piece fell into our wagon. I decided not to move. Anyway, I knew that I would not be strong  enough to fight off dozens of violent men! I saw, not far from me, an old man  dragging himself on all fours. He had just detached himself from the struggling

mob. He was holding one hand to his heart. At first I thought he had received a blow to his chest. Then I understood: he was hiding a piece of bread under his shirt." (101)

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"I woke from my apathy only when two men approached

my father. I threw myself on his body. He was cold. I slapped him.  I rubbed his hands, crying: "Father! Father!

Wake up. They're going to throw you outside..." His body remained inert. The two "gravediggers" had grabbed me by the neck: "Leave him alone. Can't you see that he's dead?"

"No!" I yelled. "He's not dead! Not yet!" And I started to hit him harder and harder. At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy. He was breathing faintly. "You see," I cried. The two men went away." (99) This entire section of page 99 of the novel stand out to me because Elie was persistent to make sure his father did not get thrown off the train and for his father to stay with him. If Elie could not get his father to wake up then he would have been tossed onto the side of the road and they would have left him there to die and Elie would most likely lose motivation to survive.

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For most of chapter 7 we see the Jews being transported in a train car to be taken to a new camp. For most of the trip to the new camp it was snowing heavily and the temperatures were severe.

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What did Elie see in the mirror the first time he looked at himself? How is this symbolic to why he tells his story?

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What did Elie see in the mirror the first time he looked at himself? How is this symbolic to why he tells his story?

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What happened to each of them at the end of this chapter?

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What happened to each of them at the end of this chapter?

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What did Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block? 

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What did Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block? 

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How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived?

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How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived?

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Describe the scene Elie witnessed between the father and son.

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Describe the scene Elie witnessed between the father and son.

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How did Elie again help his father when they were on the train? 

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How did Elie again help his father when they were on the train? 

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Quote that shows a character trait & explanation

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"And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to

this God in whom I no longer believed.  "Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done." (91) Throughout the last few chapters of the story we have seen Elie go through some serious doubt and loss of faith in the Jewish God and now even after all of the attempts at rebelling against his religion he is still trying to have hope that his God will keep him from being like the Rabbi's son and abandoning his father.

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How did Elie help his father when the selection was made? 

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How did Elie help his father when the selection was made? 

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Juiek's last act was him playing Betthoven on his violin in the train car and after his performance he was killed.

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What horrible realization did Elie come to concerning Rabbi Eliahou and his son? How did Elie respond to this?

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What horrible realization did Elie come to concerning Rabbi Eliahou and his son? How did Elie respond to this?

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Elie realized that the Rabbi's son had left him and has probably been killed by the Nazi's when he was alone. Elie responds to this by praying to God to never let him do that to his father and to lead him to stay on the right path.

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Zalman was trying his hardest to keep running as far as he could but eventually while they were running Zalman gave up and fell to the ground.

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What did the prisoners do when they were freed?

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What did the prisoners do when they were freed?

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What was the resistance movement? What were they trying to accomplish?

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What was the resistance movement? What were they trying to accomplish?

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Why does he say, "I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered" (113).

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Why does he say, "I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered" (113).

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Explain how the father/son roles have been reversed in the case of Elie and his father.

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Explain how the father/son roles have been reversed in the case of Elie and his father.

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Doodle of something you find important or interesting.

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Doodle of something you find important or interesting.

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Elie was given the option to either stay in the infirmary and potentially be saved by the Russians or escape and find someone that will help them get home and survive. On the other hand if they stayed they could possibly be invaded and killed and if they escaped they could be found by German soldiers and shot on the spot.

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Elie goes to the infirmary because his foot is swollen and he is faced with the potential of having to have his foot amputated due to the severity of his situation but for now he must have a surgery done to get rid of the swelling so he can heal and be able to walk normally again.

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Doodle of a character facing a conflict.

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Doodle of a character facing a conflict.

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In this chapter, Elie is facing an internal conflict of whether his religion is right and if he should believe in his God because it seems as though God is torturing these innocent people who praise him and he is saying that their God has betrayed them.

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After Elie was brutally attacked by Idek the sweet French woman came over to try to calm Elie and I believe she helped give him the courage to keep going and to not give up against the anti-semitic Germans by telling him to hold in his anger and to clench his teeth and wait.

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"One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground, and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood. As I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have mistaken my silence for defiance and so he continued to hit me harder and harder." (53) The descriptive and brutal word choice in this quote shows how cruel and unforgiving the character of Idek truly is. Even when Elie was on the ground bleeding immensely he continued to hit him just because he was silent. But if Elie would have talked he would have been hit and if Elie retaliated he most likely would have been shot so there was nothing he could do but wait it out.

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The prisoners are forced to watch other prisoners be hung by a noose for disobeying the SS. One prisoner, in particular, was a young boy who was so lightweight that he struggled to die because he didn't weigh enough for gravity to hang him and he struggled for at least 30 mins before finally dying. Seeing the young boy be hung was so harsh and deep for Elie it made him cry for the first time in a long while.

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"I knew nothing about them ... Since 1940, my mother had not

received a single letter from them. But I lied: "Yes, my mother did hear from them. Reizel is fine. So are the children..." (45) Throughout the story we see characters surviving through these labor camps and their secret is that they never give up hope and focus on taking everything day by day rather than thinking about how long this is going to last for them and how much pain they are going to have to endure. When Elie is confronted by a distant family member who is worried about his family and if they are still alive he has to lie to give him hope and give him a reason to keep fighting to be free from the German camps.

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When the author describes the gate with the overhead sign that says Arbeit Macht Frei which means "Work makes you free" in English is ironic because the Jews are prisoners in a German slave labor camp and no amount of work will let them be free from the Germans.

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Doodle of something you find important or interesting.

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Elie was told to lie about his age and what he does for work by one of the prisoners and this quick lie probably save Elie from being separated from his father and he would have most likely been experimented on by Dr. Mengele and lying about his occupation most likely saved him from working in the dreadful construction job at the camp for now.

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During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from others?

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During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from others?

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A small child was being hung but he was so light weight that he struggled to die for a long time.

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During one of the preliminary "ceremonies" for a hanging, what did Juliek whisper to Elie?

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During one of the preliminary "ceremonies" for a hanging, what did Juliek whisper to Elie?

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Juliek asked Elie when the hanging was going to end because they were so hungry.

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Describe the scene with the soup cauldrons.

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Describe the scene with the soup cauldrons.

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Jealousy

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It was taken from him by a different dentist but this time he got nothing in return.

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Whom did Elie meet years later on the Paris metro?

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Whom did Elie meet years later on the Paris metro?

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The French woman from the concentration camp.

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How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?

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How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?

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He faked being ill and would build trust by coming back to the dentist.

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Describe one of Idek's bouts of madness.

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Describe one of Idek's bouts of madness.

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The father was beaten because he could not march correctly.

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Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play music by Beethoven?

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Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play music by Beethoven?

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Because Beethoven was German and they were Jews.

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What were the objectives of the medical examinations?

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What were the objectives of the medical examinations?

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If they are healthy they will be good for working, the dentists were checking for gold crowns

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What is the irony of the gate that says Arbeit Mach Frei?

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What is the irony of the gate that says Arbeit Mach Frei?

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It translates into "Work sets you free" which is ironic because they are prisoners in a concentration camp where they are never going to be free there.

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What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?

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What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?

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At breakfast they got black coffee, at lunch they got a mystery soup, at dinner they got a hard piece of bread.

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Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from his position?

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Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from his position?

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He was too polite and was giving them advice to survive.

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How did the guards identify the prisoners?

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How did the guards identify the prisoners?

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They tattooed numbers onto the prisoners.

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What formalities did the prisoners have to go through at the entrance to the camps?

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What formalities did the prisoners have to go through at the entrance to the camps?

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The prisoners would have to shower and stand in the mud for a long time while the officers took roll.

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What was Bela Katz forced to do after he was chosen for his strength?

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What was Bela Katz forced to do after he was chosen for his strength?

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He was forced to burn his own father alive.

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What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?

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What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?

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He thought that Auschwitz was at least better than where he was before.

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He saw babies being thrown into a fire and being burned alive.

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When questioned by the S.S. officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?

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When questioned by the S.S. officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?

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Elie lied about his age and occupation to be spared from Dr. Mengele, who experimented on children.

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The train stopped in Kaschau on the Czechoslovakian border.

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What did some of the passengers do to quiet Mrs.Shachter? What would you have done?

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What did some of the passengers do to quiet Mrs.Shachter? What would you have done?

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To quiet Mrs. Shachter the passengers gagged her and covered her mouth so she couldn't talk and when she managed to talk they would beat her over the head til she passed out. I would have consulted her and tried to reason with her and what she meant by the fire she was seeing.

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What was foreshadowed by Mrs.Shachter's vision?

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What was foreshadowed by Mrs.Shachter's vision?

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Mrs. Shachter's vision is foreshadowing the burning of the Jews in the crematory and the gas chambers.

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What does it mean 'our eyes were opened too late'?

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What does it mean 'our eyes were opened too late'?

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When the text says "our eyes were opened too late" it is referring to the blindness of the passengers not realizing that they were being taken away from where they thought they would be going originally and now it was too late for them.

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When the people in the train car tied up and knocked out the woman for screaming that there was a fire I believe that it was a bit of an overreaction but if they didn't stop her from being loud they probably would have all been killed by the guards but also if they would have listened to her and let her explain that she was seeing the fire from the crematory she probably would have stopped talking on her own and it wouldn't need to result in violence.

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"There was a woman among us, a certain Mrs. Schächter. She was in her fifties and her ten-year-old son was with her, crouched in a corner. Her husband and two older sons had been deported with the first transport, by mistake. The separation had totally shattered her." (24) The depiction of the woman having lost her husband and two older sons after they were deported shows how the people could think that she's just gone insane when she consistently shouts out that she sees a fire.

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Mrs. Schächter yells about how she sees a fire but the people in the train didn't believe her and tied her up.

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After escaping the Gestapo in the Galician forest near Kolomay Moishe went house to house telling people his story to let people know the trauma he endured and to let people know that the German's are not people to be trusted. After trying to let people know what had happened to him in the forest the Jewish people ignored him and called him crazy and I believe that if those people would've listened to what Moishe had said instead of pushing him aside they would've been more enlightened on what was going to happen in the near future.

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Moishe the Beadle is a poor Jewish man that lives in the town of Sighet, Transylvania in 1941 during World War II.

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"Even Moishe the Beadle had fallen silent. He was weary of

talking. He would drift through synagogue or through the streets, hunched over, eyes cast down, avoiding people's gaze." (8) The mention of eyes, specifically Moishes', throughout the chapter helps set a tone because at the start of the chapter Moishe is depicted having wide, dreamy eyes showing his happiness and his joy of life. Towards the end of the chapter his eyes are glued to the ground and he would avoid people's gaze depicting his disappointment for the Jewish people who ignored him and his warnings when he escaped the German slave camp.

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The conditions were very tight and there is little to no space. They were given sparce amounts of bread and water.

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Why and how did they stay so optimistic? What truths did they ignore?

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Why and how did they stay so optimistic? What truths did they ignore?

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They ignored the meetings saying how Jews were being treated in other places. They stayed so optimistic simply to have a way to overcome adversity.

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How did Elie and the other Jews lose their rights?

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How did Elie and the other Jews lose their rights?

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Were not allowed to travel, lost all their belongings, moved into the ghettos

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The Germans arrived in Hungary in 1944.

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People ignored him and called him crazy.

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He was deported out of Hungary and was left for dead after being shot in the leg by a firing squad.

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Moishe is a poor man and was a mentor towards Elie Wiesel

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Why is it important to remember and tell stories of conflict and adversity?

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Why is it important to remember and tell stories of conflict and adversity?

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How can learning about multiple viewpoints and perspectives help face and overcome adversity?

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How can learning about multiple viewpoints and perspectives help face and overcome adversity?

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What happened to anyone who could not keep up with the march?

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What happened to anyone who could not keep up with the march?

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If a prisoner could not keep up with the march they would be shot on the spot by an SS officer.