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Train transport takes 10 days with no food or drink

Elie's father gets sick

He dies between January 28th and 29th, 1945

His body is taken away while Elie is sleeping

Buchenwald is liquidated

No food for six days

Liberation of the camp on April 11th by the Americans

"I have nothing to say of my life during this period. It no longer mattered. After my father's death, nothing could touch me anymore." (p.117)

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About a two day walk from Buna

Losses on the way caused by ice cold weather, snow and exhaustion

Men are cramped into Barracks

No food or drink

Stay lasts three days

Elie almost gets separated from his father

Jews wait for the train to be deported into the center of Germay

"I felt that I was crushing him. I was stopping his breath.I wanted to get up. I struggled to disengage myself, so that he could breathe." (p.99)

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Subcamp of Ausschwitz

Four hour walk from Ausschwitz

Doctors look for golden theeth

Elie works in different units and makes some friends (Yossi and Tibi from cechzslovakia)

Hangings to intimidate Jews

Elie's foot is injured

Russian army comes closer, Buna is evacuted

"Then the whole camp, block after block, had to march past the hanged man and stare at the dimmed eyes, the lolling tongue of death." (p.70)

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Elie's hometown

lives there with his parents and three sisters

Jews do not belive in "rumors" they hear about what the German do to the Jews

Eventually, rights are taken away from the Jewish citizien

Loss of freedom, home and valuables

Elie and his family are transported out of town

"From that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun." (p. 20)

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30 minutes walk from Birkenau

Prisoners get numbers engraved

Meeting with Stein of Antwerp, relative of Elie

Elie and his father stay at Ausschwitz for three weeks

"First impression: this was better than Birkenau." (p.49)

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Reception center for Ausschwitz

Selection: if unable to work examination

Elie and his father are separated from his mother and little sister

Prisoners/Jews are shaved

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp,which has turned my life into one long night." (p.43)