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¨ We drank, we ate , we sang. The Bible commands us to rejoice during the 8 days of celebration, but our hearts were not in it. We wished the holiday would end so as no to have to pretend.¨

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These words from Elie are explaining how they were forced to be in their religion , because that´s what was expected to be. This might've also been a reason they didn't fight back to the Germans, because b=they wanted to get away from that or it would've been a reason to change.

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¨From time to time in the middle of all that talk , a thought crossed my mind: Where is mother right now.. and Tzipora (sister).¨

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At this time and point a lot of families had been separated maybe some haven't but the ones that were suffered a lot from not seeing their loved one but made them stronger in order to be able to survive to live to see them one day.

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¨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.. I dragged myself to my corner. I was aching all over.¨

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As direct that this quote these words of pain are explaining what he was doing through he couldn't do anything about it. He had to keep on going with whatever he was doing.

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¨I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent. In fact, I thought of stealing away in order to not suffer the blows. ¨

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This could be used as another example on more about why Elie couldn't do anything and why he preferred not to even when it was his father getting beaten there was nothing he could possibly do but to move on.