What were Elie's first impressions of Birkenau-Auschwitz? (7) by Kimberlee Bent https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15 Directions: Review pages 28-38 in Night. What does Elie Wiesel see as he arrives at Birkenau-Auschwitz? What does he hear? What does he smell? How does Elie feel? en-us 2020-12-15 00:16:26 UTC 2020-12-16 17:35:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2620.png kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1018322726 "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed..." p. 34]]> 2020-12-15 00:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1018322726 "Hey, kid, how old are you?" (page 30) cayemittekee https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020982862 The prisoners are telling Eli and his father to lie about their ages to hopefully save them from being killed.
- K.C.]]> 2020-12-15 17:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020982862 gutierrezjay https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020987772 "In front of us, those flames" (28).
Elie recognizes the large pillars of fire and smoke that Mrs. Schäcter was mentioning. J.G]]> 2020-12-15 17:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020987772 Burning flesh N.E https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020989268 2020-12-15 17:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020989268 "Was I still alive? Was I awake?" (page 32) cayemittekee https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020990823 Eli is in shock and is in denial that these events are actually happening.
- K.C.]]> 2020-12-15 17:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020990823 "If I was going to kill myself, this was the time." https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020992813 N.E]]> 2020-12-15 17:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020992813 gutierrezjay https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020993888 "In the air, the smell of burning flesh" (28). Here, Elie gets hit by the smell of burning people as soon as he leaves the cattle car. J.G]]> 2020-12-15 17:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020993888 He gets asked his age and he lies about it W.H https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020994731 2020-12-15 17:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020994731 " Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent." https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020995474 Elie is losing hope in religion because the god he believed in was not helping them in their time of need. JT]]> 2020-12-15 17:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020995474 bunshaftqui https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020995593 The first thing he sees when he arrives is the flames coming from the building]]> 2020-12-15 17:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020995593 cusajac https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020998213 The first thing Elie sees when arriving at the camp is the smoke and flames that came from the building. ]]> 2020-12-15 17:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020998213 He smells burning flesh when he arrives. W.H https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020999186 2020-12-15 17:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020999186 The flames xiehar https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020999679 2020-12-15 17:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1020999679 awatramanidev https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021000354 As soon as he steps off the cattle car, Elie smells burning flesh.]]> 2020-12-15 17:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021000354 "Every few yards, there stood an SS man, his machine gun trained on us." N.E https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021002130 2020-12-15 17:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021002130 He feels hopeless and considers giving up and running into the fence. W.H https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021002279 2020-12-15 17:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021002279 He is being interrogated about his age https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021003279 D.P]]> 2020-12-15 17:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021003279 awatramanidev https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021004772 Elie sees the fire coming from the crematorium and smoke from the chimney.]]> 2020-12-15 17:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021004772 He is losing faith and considering suicide by electric fence https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021005394 D.P]]> 2020-12-15 17:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021005394 He first see flames coming from the buildings. W.H https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021005821 2020-12-15 17:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021005821 cusajac https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021006414 The first thing he hears is someone asking about his age and then telling him to lie about it. ]]> 2020-12-15 17:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021006414 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021006946 As Elie approaches the pit of fire that he believes he will have to walk into, he sees soldiers throwing live babies in the air and into the pit of fire.  A memory that Weisel said he would NEVER forget.

]]> 2020-12-15 17:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021006946 awatramanidev https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021008702 He was suicidal, and was thinking about running into the electric fence to end the terror. He also began to lose faith in god because how could he let this happen? ]]> 2020-12-15 17:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021008702 Elie sees prisoners working, some digging and other carrying sand. None of them looked at him. JT https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021009285 2020-12-15 17:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021009285 gutierrezjay https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021009892 Elie feels like the entire thing is just an unimaginable nightmare, especially after an inmate looks down upon them and yells about them getting sent into the crematorium if they do something wrong. He doesn't want to accept that this is reality. "Don't you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes" (31)! J.G]]> 2020-12-15 17:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021009892 "Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there A truck drew close and unloaded its its hold: small children." (P.32) youmen https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021010225 2020-12-15 17:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021010225 cusajac https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021010415 The first thing he smells is burning flesh. ]]> 2020-12-15 17:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021010415 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021012518 Elie sees his mother and little sister Tzipora for the last time, without saying goodbye.  He sees his little sister walk away, hand in hand with is mother, in her new little red coat for the holidays.


]]> 2020-12-15 17:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021012518 bunshaftqui https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021013307 When he arrives he is asked about his age and he is told to lie to help his chances of survival]]> 2020-12-15 17:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021013307 cusajac https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021014786 Elie feels like there is no more hope for him and his dad and he  considered committing suicide because he was losing his faith. ]]> 2020-12-15 17:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021014786 bunshaftqui https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021016206 The first thing he smells is burning flesh]]> 2020-12-15 17:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021016206 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021020023 Elie hears people weeping, praying for the dead, screaming in pain or terror, dog's barking, gun shots from soldier's submachine guns, sirens, his father's wish that he had let Elie go with his mother, not knowing that Elie would be dead had he gone with his mother.

]]> 2020-12-15 17:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021020023 "An SS officer had come in and, with him, the smell of the Angel of Death" JT https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021020202 2020-12-15 17:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021020202 " A barrel of foul-smelling liquid stood by the door." (page 36) cayemittekee https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021020598 It was disinfection and everybody had to be soaked in it. 
- K.C.]]> 2020-12-15 17:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021020598 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021026697 Elie smells the human bodies of those prisoners around him.  No one can wash, change their clothes, clean up and it is cold.   Some people have been in the camp for many months and as their bodies start to decay with starvation, beatings, loss of hope, we can imagine the smell...

]]> 2020-12-15 17:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021026697 "On the roof, a few bluish skylights." (page 34) cayemittekee https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021030993 This was when Eli was in the barrack. He said that it was probably how the antechambers of hell looked like because there were so many brutality and craziness.
- K.C.]]> 2020-12-15 17:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021030993 He sees the flaming camp, the smoke coming out of it, the guards, and he sees his family for the last time https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021034659 D.P]]> 2020-12-15 17:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021034659 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021035980 Elie feels desperate. As he approaches the pit of fire, he starts saying a prayer for the dead for himself! He thinks his father will die with him, so no one will be left to say the prayer for the dead for him or his father.]]> 2020-12-15 17:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021035980 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021040499 Elie feels a lack of hope in his faith.  Young people in the line to the pit of fire want to revolt, die letting the world know who they are.  The older people, the rabbis convince them to be patient, that God will save them.  Elie feels sad because for the first time in his life, he is questioning his beliefs.

]]> 2020-12-15 17:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021040499 Elie feels that he is going to die and doesn't have any hope. DM https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021046804 2020-12-15 17:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021046804 Eli smells burning flesh when he first arrives. LS https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021048642 2020-12-15 17:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021048642 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021048671 Elie sees fire and ashes coming form the chimneys, not yet understanding that the ashes that look like snow are in fact the bodies of the dead. I'm sure when you breathe in these circumstances, you can taste the ashes... Elie will learn soon enough.]]> 2020-12-15 17:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021048671 The first thing Eli sees is the smoke from the building. LS https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021052828 2020-12-15 17:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021052828 awatramanidev https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021052930 When Elie and his father are separated from his mother and sister, they hear people crying and singing prayers. He is also told by someone to lie about their age.]]> 2020-12-15 17:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021052930 "My soul had been been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame." (page 37) cayemittekee https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021052944 Eli no longer feels like himself or ike the child he used to be. All that is left is a body that looks like him.
- K.C.]]> 2020-12-15 17:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021052944 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021054751 Elie sees his arm and others arms being tatooed with a number:  A-7713 his new name, his new identity. He sees people's hair being shaved, gasoline being poured on them to kill any lice, or other scourges, he sees the marching dead. He sees his father who keeps him going. Without him Elie would have given up at the electric fence.]]> 2020-12-15 17:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021054751 Eli feels hopeless and wants give up and run into the fence but he stops himself because of his father. LS https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021058670 2020-12-15 17:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021058670 "How changed he looked!" (page 36) cayemittekee https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021064399 Eli looked at his father and his father looked different and his eyes looked expressionless.
- K.C.]]> 2020-12-15 17:40:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021064399 kbent1 https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021068196 Elie feels a loss of identity.  He is no longer Elie Wiesel, a human being, but a number A-7713, a number to the Germans which takes away his humanity and makes him easier to kill.

]]> 2020-12-15 17:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021068196 He smells the burning bodies of former prisoners https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021072711 D.P]]> 2020-12-15 17:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1021072711 He saw his father being slapped on the face because he asked where to toilet was. youmen https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1022289022 2020-12-15 23:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1022289022 Elie was angry when he saw his father being slapped on the face but he couldn't do anything to help. youmen https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1022290415 2020-12-15 23:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1022290415 Elie feels hopeless and feels like god betrayed him. solimanbas https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1024818837 2020-12-16 17:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1024818837 people with guns and fire DM https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1024820504 2020-12-16 17:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/5tczm1wm1xzisa15/wish/1024820504