Night final project by Daniel Larios

Spring of 1944: Elie and his family had to live in the ghetto

dlarios31 — 2024-05-29 21:03:47 UTC

They were not removed from their house because there house was already in the first ghetto that was built in Sighet. They had to share some of the room to relatives because there relatives were being moved from there home's. " The street we lived on, Serpent Street, was in the first ghetto. We therefore could remain in our house. But, as it occupied a corner, the windows facing the street outside the ghetto had to be sealed. We gave some of our rooms to relatives who had been driven out of their homes" (Wiesel 11).

Spring of 1944: they are taken to Auschwitz concentration camps.

dlarios31 — 2024-05-29 21:19:18 UTC

Elie and his family had leave there home, pack what ever they could carry. They were taken to the concentration camps by cattle carts on a train. When they got there they were separated in groups men on the left side and women on the right. They were asked for there age to know who is going to the concentration camp and who is going to the crematorium. " The next morning, we walked toward the station, were a convoy of cattle cars was waiting" (Wiesel 22).

June 1944: Transfer to Buna

dlarios31 — 2024-05-31 20:54:51 UTC

Elie and his father were transferred to the Buna labor camp which is a subcamp of Auschwitz. "After four hours, we arrived at the new camp: Buna. The iron gate closed behind us" (Wiesel 46). At Buna they had to endure grueling labor, malnutrition, and brutality which made Elie think that he wasn't gonna survive.

January 1945: Elie and his father arrive at Buchenwald concetration camp

dlarios31 — 2024-05-31 21:12:25 UTC

Elie and his father arrived to Buchenwald on January 1945 when they arrived they were put in ranks of five and were told by a veteran of Buchenwald that they would be taking a shower. " A veteran of Buchenwald told us that we would be taking a shower and afterward be sent to different blocks" (Wiesel 104). Elie's father wanted to rest on a pile of snow where there were a lot of dead bodies. His father said that he should die here on the pile of snow but Elie didn't let him.

April 1945: Elie gets liberated form Buchenwald

dlarios31 — 2024-05-31 21:27:11 UTC

Elie and the other prisoners didn't think about revenge they just thougt about the food even after they eat they still didn't think about revenge. Elie three days after being liberated from Buchenwald became very ill and had to stay in a hospital between life and death. When he was able to stand up and walk he looked at him self in the mirror and saw a corpse that was contemplating himself which was him when he was in the concentration camp. " One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he glazed me has never left me" ( Wiesel 115).