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Elliezer and his family are now in a ghetto but they feel like they are not in real danger and tend to keep a positive view on the situation throughout most of their time in the ghettos.

This event is important because it shows the dramatic change and the closer Eliezer and his family are getting to death but his family's positive out look and Eliezers nonchalant reaction to the situation shows how clueless and how serious they took the danger they are in. From this moment on it would be the last time that Eliezer would experience peace and being with his family.

Eliezer's first time at a concentration camp was when he began to spiral down a deep hole of suffering and anger.

This moment is important because it is the big moment where Eliezer is introduced to the concentration camp's that would change him for the rest of his life. The horrible and evil events that were happening in front of hi face like the burning of children and babies leaves him doubting God's absolute justice.

This moment shows the suffering and desperate state of mind that Jews were all going through while in the cattle car. Eliezer is scared and is stressed out by the circumstances he finds himself in.

This moment is a big turning point in the book where Eliezer and his family are on the way to the camps. It is the beginning of what would be an eye opening, mind destroying, and heart hardening "long night" for Eliezer's as being a Jew in Europe during the 40's

During this part of the chapter Eliezer is in the barracks when their are american planes flying above dropping bombs on the camp. They drop bombs on the factory's where Eliezer's dad is working at and he is worried but still has this joy in his heart to see the camp go up in flames.

This event is important because it is a pivotal point in the book where the advancement of the red army on the eastern front is becoming more and more apparent that the Germans are losing. Liberation getting closer and closer makes Eliezer forget about the safety and health of his dad meaning he cares more about himself over his dad.

Eliezer and his father are talking about whether to stay and go to the infirmary or leave with the rest of the camp on their march to the next camp.

The people in the camp that were evacuated with the SS went on a death march to the next camp. Eliezer and his father decided to go with the people of the camp allowing them to stay together. The march there would be unbearable but as long as they are together and supporting each other, they would be able to make it through.

Eliezer and his father begin their march to Glewitz a new concentration camp deeper into Germany and are forced to run/ jog all the way there with essentially no resting time.

The pain in Eliezers foot and the fatigue that he was experiencing always reminded him about how much he hated his body. Death had seem to become a fascination of his and the thought of ceasing to exist all were making him think about killing himself but the presence of his father, the fact that he still was pushing forward and trying for him had stopped him from committing suicide.

The ride to Buchenwald was a very long and painful ride, covered in snow, crowded and starving.

Eliezer experiences a bunch of death and suffering while on the ride to Buchenwald. This is nothing new to him but he notices that humans are capable of very savage things. People threw bread at the people while in the wagons, they fought over crumbs of bread like savage animals and the people that threw the bread 10 times as more savage and evil laughing.

Eliezer's father is dying of dysentery and is really sick to the point where he could not move. Taking care of him was a really big responsiblity and one day Eliezer wakes up and goes to see that another sick person took his fathers place.

Eliezers mind immediately thought that his father must have gotten put into the crematoria. Deep in his mind he was celebrating the freedom of not having to take care of his father. No more tears could've possibly come out of his eyes and all he could think about immediately after was bread.

When Eliezer was liberated all he thought about was food as soon as he got out. People moved on and didn't even think back or have any feelings for the Holocaust. They simply put it as a dark era in their life.

Eliezer later got sick and stared at himself in the mirror only to see a lifeless corpse staring back at him. Nothing in his heart, his soul was gone, and his body was a corpse. He did not think of his family that he never saw again, he didn't think about the people that he was in the camps with, it was all just a long dark night.