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"Outside, the SS walked by, shouting:"Throw out all the dead! Outside, all the corpses!" The living were glad

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In this chapter the only major historical event that took place was the "final solution", this plan was to export millions of Jews to extermination camps, they his this fact by stating that they were being moved further east to other labor camps while in reality they were being sent to their deaths, because of the giant scale of the event they had to have multiple ministries in the government coordinating the movement, the Reich Security Main Office directed the deportations, the Transport Ministry organised train schedules and the Foreign Office negotiated with other states for the prisoner transfer.

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Cattle Cart:
at the start of the chapter the cattle cart is filled to the brim with one hundred ro more people so they had to pile on top of each other to fit in but as the train journey continued there was more room to move because of the dead bodies being thrown of the side when they would stop. The carts probably smelt of death as the inmates would die and decay, the carts would have been covered in a thick layer of snow as the  weather would not let up but this allowed the inmates to have a never ending source of 'food'. after the event of when the workers were throwing bread to the starving inmates the snow would've been stained with blood as many men were injured or killed over the scraps of food.

Buchenwald:
At the end of Part 7, they arrived at Buchenwald.

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The two major themes shown in part 7 of Night is family and survival as Elie and his father rely on one another during the trip to survive and other examples of people surviving are shown.

The first example of these themes being shown is when Elie' father is huddled with him but when Elie calls out to him he doesn't get a response, this fact sussenly opens Elie's eyes as he realises that they had no reason to live anymore or to keep on fighting.

Some gravediggers go to throw Elie's father outside because they think he is dead, Elie does anything he can to wake his father up, this shows how he still doesn't resent his father and he doesn't want to abandon him like others have done with their fathers.

When the train stops at a town some passersby throw in scraps of bread and this sets the inmates into a frenzy, men are ripping into each other just to get a mere scrap of food, in a certain instance a son kills his own father who is offering food to him, this shows how some people's survival instinct has taken over and they give pay no attention to what they are doing and how it is affecting others, it truly becomes a dog eat dog world.

One night on the train Elie wakes to find that another inmate is strangling him, he calls for his father to help him and then Mier Katz shows unto help as well, If Elie had abandoned his father before this point in time he would've died to this stranger and if Elie had called to anyone else they most likely wouldn't have come to help him as family is the only people Elie can rely on in this situation.

Meir Katz had lost his son in one of the first selections and only on the train did he start to mourn for his son, Mier Katz was one of the most fit to live but because he had lost the last of his family he fell apart and couldn't go on while Elie and his father still could even though they were considerably weaker than Katz.

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Volunteers:
At the beginning of the chapter the living inside of the cattle carts are ordered to throw out the dead and so some of the inmates volunteered to do this, they were happy to do this as it gave the living more space and the clothes from the corpses could be used on the inmates that were still alive, whenever they stopped for the disposal the inmates would start shouting "Come on! Here's another! My neighbour. He's not moving", it was clear that they did not mourn the dead anymore but celebrated in a certain way instead.

German workers:
These men and women would throw bread into the carts out of amusement as the prisoners fought over them, there were only a few passersby at first but when the fights broke out a crowd started to form and with this more bread was thrown into the carts for more amusement. These men and women did not care for the wellbeing of the people they were throwing food to as the ones who were 'lucky' enough to get a scrap would be instantly buried under a pile of bodies who would be fighting until the last man would scurry away only to be ambushed by other ravenous inmates.

Hungry Inmates:
There were two inmates in particular that should to be focused on, this is an old man and his son, it starts off when the old man separates himself from the mob of starving inmates who were fighting for food, the old man has his hand to his chest as he hides a piece of bread, he shoves this piece of bread with lightning speed into his mouth but a shadow that had lain next to him quickly threw itself upon the old man, this shadow was the old mans own son as is clearly stated when he calls out "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognise me... Your killing your father... I have bread... for you too... for you too..." these are the old mans last words as he dies and soon after his son comes to the same fate. This example shows how the will to survive overcomes the bonds of family as the son his own blood.

Mier Katz:
Meir Katz worked as a gardener in Buna. He was the strongest out of all the prisoners so he was put in charge of the wagon. His son was picked in the first selection and he started to lose hope. One night Elie woke to two hands around his throat, he calls for his father but even he is too weak so Mier Katz comes over to save Elie, after this the train comes to the final stop but Mier Katz just doesn't have the drive to keep on going, he never leaves the train.

Elie and his father:
In this chapter we find that Elie and his father has given up hope on living as they thought there is no reason to live anymore, but the one thing that does keep them alive is their bond with each other, if it weren't for the bond Elie would've died and so would his father as Elie stop the gravediggers from throwing him off the train, and Elie was saved from the unknown inmate who tried his best to strangle Eliezer in the middle of the night.

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In the cold night. Elie and his father were on the cattle cars. They huddled together to keep warm. At dawn, the cattle car stopped at an empty field and the SS ordered the prisoners to throw out all the people who died on the journey, they almost threw Elie's father off the cattle car because he was not moving but luckily he started to open his eyes before they threw him out, the train resumed its journey leaving a field of hundreds of naked corpses.

During the journey, the SS gave the prisoners no food so they ate snow instead. They would occasionally pass through German towns. The German workers threw bread at the Jews to see them fight over it for their own entertainment. Soon, a crowd of workers joined in and started to throw bread at the wagon as they observed the prisoners who were ready to kill for just a crust of bread. Elie didn't fight for the bread because he knew he wasn't strong enough. He witnessed an old man hiding a piece of bread and quickly devouring it. Suddenly, he was tackled to the ground by his own son. As the father begs him to stop and promised to share the bread, the son threw himself onto the old man. He had collapsed and died. The son took the bread but other people killed him before he managed to eat it. Elie was beside the corpse of the old man and his son.

During one night of the train journey, Elie suddenly woke up and discovered someone was strangling him. His father tried to pull the stranger away from his son but he wasn't strong enough. He called to his friend, Mier Katz to help fight the stranger. After that, he never found out why the stranger tried to strangle him.

Later on, Mier Katz told Elie's father that he could not go anymore. He said, "Shlomo, I am getting weak. My strength is gone. I won't make it..."

"Don't give in!" Elie's father tried to encourage him. "You must resist. Don't lose faith in yourself." Meir Katz groaned, "I can't go on, Shlomo!... I can't help it... I can go on..."

Towards the end of the trip the winds became stronger and colder so someone yells "We must not remain sitting. We shall freeze to death! let's get up and move", suddenly their was a feral cry that rose within the wagon, someone had just died, others close to death started to imitate this cry, the cry was contagious and spread from wagon to wagon.

On the last day of the journey, they arrived at the concentration camp Buchenwald, those who were strong enough to stand could leave, only twelve people left Elie's cart, at the start there had been one hundred or so. Meir Katz never left the cart.