Night Questions for Literature by Rachael Rios https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz hi guys good luck :) en-us 2021-04-26 18:35:00 UTC 2021-06-08 05:32:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Alejandro Aguirre (one's self) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475490929 "I tried to protect myself ... by hiding" (40).]]> 2021-04-29 19:04:31 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475490929 Makaiya Prince (choices we make) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475491667 - "walk or cremation, the choice is yours" (39).
- "I tried to protect myself from the blows by hiding behind others" (40).
- "I was terribly hungry, yet I refused to touch it" (42).
- "It was enough to never sign up as a skilled worker... until the end" (44).
- "He was not moving...there was no longer any reason to live any reason to fight" (98)

]]> 2021-04-29 19:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475491667 Cameron Pachman (one another) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475491926 "Don't lose hope...have faith in life, a thousand times faith... Help each other. That is the only way to survive" (41). ]]> 2021-04-29 19:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475491926 Katrina Khoury (preserving one's life) 67658 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475494140 "I was terribly hungry and swallowed my ration on the spot... there was nothing left of my ration, he didn't even start his own" (44).]]> 2021-04-29 19:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475494140 Shalynn Myles (weaken) 291398 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475495432 "I was leaving my mother and tzipora forever" (29).]]> 2021-04-29 19:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475495432 Alejandro Aguirre (one another) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475495969 "We immediately started to switch" (37).]]> 2021-04-29 19:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475495969 Grace Wheat (strengthen) 3072316 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475496578 "The only thing that keeps me alive," he kept saying, "is to
know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. (45)]]> 2021-04-29 19:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475496578 Rachael Rios (Strengthen) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475497160 I kept walking, my father holding my hand. Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Nearby, an SS man replaced his revolver in its holster. My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone" (29 to 30).]]> 2021-04-29 19:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475497160 Alejandro Aguirre (one's life) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475500028 "His eyes were shining with greed" (55).]]> 2021-04-29 19:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475500028 Cameron Pachman (choices we make) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475501512 "I could use all of my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of only myself" (106). ]]> 2021-04-29 19:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475501512 Isaac Jimenez https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475501920 “we were ordered to turn left” (34)
through chance and luck Elie and his father
are not walked towards the crematorium to be 
incinerated.]]> 2021-04-29 19:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475501920 Rachael Rios (Strengtehn) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475501990 "For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?" (33)]]> 2021-04-29 19:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475501990 Alejandro Aguirre (our choices) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475503833 "I thought of pretending to be sick" (52).]]> 2021-04-29 19:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475503833 Cameron Pachman (choices we make) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475504404 "But deep inside I knew that to sleep meant to die. And something in me rebelled against that death" (89). ]]> 2021-04-29 19:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475504404 Rachael Rios (Weaken) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475504958 "I had new shoes myself. But as they were covered with a thick coat of mud, they had not been noticed. I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe" (38).]]> 2021-04-29 19:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475504958 Grace Wheat (Yes) 3072316 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475504968 We are all brothers and share the same fate...Help each other. (41)]]> 2021-04-29 19:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475504968 Cameron Pachman (No) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475506413 "In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men" (36).]]> 2021-04-29 19:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475506413 Kylie Weber (one another) 68433 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475506616 "Hey, kid, how old are you?...Do you hear? Eighteen and forty." (30)]]> 2021-04-29 19:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475506616 Shalynn Myles (dignity) 291398 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475506835 "I was terribly hungry, yet I refused to touch it " (42).]]> 2021-04-29 19:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475506835 Cameron Pachman (No) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475507457 "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (42).]]> 2021-04-29 19:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475507457 Rachael Rios (Strengthen) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475508340 "Behind me, I heard the same man asking: "For God's sake, where is God?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows… " (65)]]> 2021-04-29 19:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475508340 Cameron Pachman (No) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475508465 "All that mattered to me was my daily bowl of soup, my crust of stale bread. The bread, the soup-those were my entire life. I was nothing but a body" (52).]]> 2021-04-29 19:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475508465 Alejandro Aguirre (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475509311 "I had ceased to pray" (45).]]> 2021-04-29 19:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475509311 Joey Perez ( preserving one's life) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475509483 “We were naked, holding our shoes and belts… And we ran” (36).]]> 2021-04-29 19:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475509483 Cameron Pachman (Weaken) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475510730 "He was not moving...there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight" (98).]]> 2021-04-29 19:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475510730 Shalynn Myles (one's life) 291398 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475512508 "The third day, I was eagerly eating any kind of soup" (43). ]]> 2021-04-29 19:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475512508 Rachael Rios (Strengthen) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475512578 "Two boys came to join our group: Yossi and Tibi, two brothers
from Czechoslovakia whose parents had been exterminated in
Birkenau. They lived for each other, body and soul" (50)]]> 2021-04-29 19:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475512578 Grace Wheat (Weaken) 3072316 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475512958 "He had been given the news. The
real news" (45).]]> 2021-04-29 19:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475512958 Makaiya Prince (fate/coincidence) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475513998 - "The beloved objects...my hand" (29).
- "could this be a nightmare" (31)
- " We did not know yet...which to crematoria" (32).
- "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (42).
- "What a shame, what a shame...with their mothers" (33)]]> 2021-04-29 19:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475513998 Cameron Pachman (one another) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475516746 "These words oof encouragement, even coming at they did from the mouths of our assassins, were of great help. Nobody wanted to give up now, just before the end; so close to our destination" (92).]]> 2021-04-29 19:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475516746 Rachael Rios (Weaken) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475518073 "Still lost in his Kabbalistic dreams, Akiba Drumer had discovered a verse from the Bible which, translated into numbers, made it possible for him to predict Redemption in the weeks to come" (51)]]> 2021-04-29 19:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475518073 Grace Wheat (yes) 3072316 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475518906 "Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever" (34).]]> 2021-04-29 19:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475518906 Joey Perez (one another) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475520179 “Stein, our relative from Antwerp… from time to time, he would bring a half portion of bread” (44).]]> 2021-04-29 19:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475520179 Cameron Pachman (oneself) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475520282 "And he began beating him with an iron bar...I had watched it all happening without moving" (54)]]> 2021-04-29 19:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475520282 Rachael Rios (one another) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475522336 "I knew nothing about them… Since 1940, my mother had not received a single letter from them. But I lied: "Yes, my mother did hear from them. Reizel is fine. So are the children…" He was weeping with joy" (44)]]> 2021-04-29 19:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475522336 Shalynn Myles (strengthen) 291398 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475523062 "Thank god! You are still alive!" (35). ]]> 2021-04-29 19:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475523062 Grace Wheat (no) 3072316 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475524538 "I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe" (38).]]> 2021-04-29 19:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475524538 Rachael Rios (Fate) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475529887 "One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood" (53) ]]> 2021-04-29 19:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475529887 Grace Wheat (Yes) 3072316 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475530028 "he would bring a half portion of bread" (44).]]> 2021-04-29 19:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475530028 Joey Perez (strengthen) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475530631 “we began to wander about the crowd, finding friends, acquaintances. Every encounter filled us with joy” (35).]]> 2021-04-29 19:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475530631 Makaiya Prince (one's life) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475532094 - "Farmer I heard myself saying"(32)
- "perhaps one should try to appear sturdy...though the opposite" (35).
- "It was enough to never sign up as a skilled worker...until the end" (44).]]> 2021-04-29 19:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475532094 Katrina Khoury (no) 67658 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475535915 "Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shouted their approval" (26).]]> 2021-04-29 19:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475535915 Joey Perez (weaken) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475538155 "What a shame, a shame that you did not go with your mother ...His voice was terribly sad” (33).]]> 2021-04-29 19:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475538155 Grace Wheat (life) 3072316 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475538225 "he had been forced to place his own father's body into the furnace" (35).]]> 2021-04-29 19:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475538225 Tyler Izadi (One's life) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475538569 "Strip! Hurry up! Raus! Hold on only to your belt and your shoes..." (35). ]]> 2021-04-29 19:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475538569 Rachael Rios (Fate) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475539439 "The baton was moving
constantly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left" (31)]]> 2021-04-29 19:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475539439 Rachael Rios (oneself) 277411 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475543846 Then, as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours. I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. (39)]]> 2021-04-29 19:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475543846 Makaiya Prince (dignity) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475544530 - "we must do something...we must revolt" (31).

]]> 2021-04-29 19:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475544530 Tyler Izadi (No) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475548822 "Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. 
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. 
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live" (34).
]]> 2021-04-29 19:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475548822 Joey Perez (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475551303 “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… You’re killing your father… I have bread… for you too… His son searched him, took the crust of bread, and began to devour it” (101).]]> 2021-04-29 19:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475551303 Grace Wheat (oneself) 3072316 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475551990 "but their fate was
not on our minds" (36).]]> 2021-04-29 19:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475551990 Tyler Izadi (Yes) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475557925 "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes" (34)]]> 2021-04-29 19:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475557925 Joey Perez (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475572297 “Therefore, muster your strength and keep your faith. We shall all see the day of liberation… Help each other. That is the only way to survive... Those were the first human words” (41).]]> 2021-04-29 19:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475572297 Tyler Izadi (One's life) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475574204 "In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men" (37)]]> 2021-04-29 19:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475574204 Tyler Izadi (Yes) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475576915 "My soul had been invaded—and devoured—by a black flame" (37).]]> 2021-04-29 19:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475576915 Tyler Izadi (One's life) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475581736 "Are you crazy? We were told to stand. Do you want to get us all in trouble?" (38).]]> 2021-04-29 19:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475581736 Tyler Izadi (Oneself) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475587719 "My feet were running on their own. I tried to protect myself from the blows by hiding behind others" (40).]]> 2021-04-29 19:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475587719 Joey Perez (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475588459 “Dozens of inmates were there to receive us, sticks in hand, striking anywhere, anyone, without reason” (35).]]> 2021-04-29 19:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475588459 Joey Perez (fate) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475592884 “At the start of the third week, our Blockälteste was removed; he was judged too humane” (44). ]]> 2021-04-29 19:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475592884 Tyler Izadi (No) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475594851 "Ahead of you lies a long road paved with suffering. Don't lose hope. You have already eluded the worst danger: the selection. Therefore, muster your strength and keep your faith" (41).]]> 2021-04-29 19:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475594851 Tyler Izadi (Strengthen) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475598984 "The same smoke hovers over all our heads. Help each other. That is the only way to survive" (41).]]> 2021-04-29 19:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475598984 Tyler Izadi (Strengthen) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475608631 "He was weeping with joy. He would have liked to stay longer, to learn more details, to soak up the good news" (44).]]> 2021-04-29 19:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475608631 Tyler Izadi (Yes) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475615375 "I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice" (45).]]> 2021-04-29 19:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475615375 Tyler Izadi (No) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475617228 "Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come" (45).]]> 2021-04-29 19:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475617228 Tyler Izadi (No) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475619561 "God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of 
overcoming our base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if He punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more..." (45).
]]> 2021-04-29 19:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475619561 Joey Perez (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475620322 “The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames” (37). ]]> 2021-04-29 19:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475620322 Joey Perez (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475625811 "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba... May His name be celebrated and sanctified..." (33).]]> 2021-04-29 19:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475625811 Tyler Izadi (Preserving one's dignity) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475629265 "My father suddenly had a colic attack. He got up and asked politely, in German,"Excuse m e ... Could you tell me where the toilets are located?" (39).]]> 2021-04-29 19:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475629265 Tyler Izadi (One's life) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475638316 "Nobody dared raise his voice, even though there was no guard around" (37).]]> 2021-04-29 19:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475638316 Tyler Izadi (Yes) 281234 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475645789 "I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void, souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either" (36).]]> 2021-04-29 19:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1475645789 Shalynn Myles (one another) 291398 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480445489 “Bite your lips…Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later” (53).]]> 2021-05-01 03:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480445489 Shalynn Myles (strengthen) 291398 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480446808 "They lived for each other, body and soul" (50).]]> 2021-05-01 03:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480446808 Noah Vega (one's self) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480556056 "Take care of yourselves, you must avoid selection. Eat! Anything, anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don't last very long around here..." (45).]]> 2021-05-01 06:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480556056 Noah Vega (one's dignity) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480565128  "In fact, I was pleased with what was happening to him: my gold crown was safe. It could be useful to me one day, to buy something, some bread or even time to live" (52).  ]]> 2021-05-01 07:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480565128 Noah Vega (one's life) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480567905 "I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent. In fact, I thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows" (54).  ]]> 2021-05-01 07:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480567905 Noah Vega (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480576463 "Every bomb that hit filled us with joy, gave us renewed confidence" (60). ]]> 2021-05-01 07:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480576463 Noah Vega (strengthen) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480579919 "Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later" (53). ]]> 2021-05-01 07:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480579919 Katrina Khoury (no) 67658 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480664365 - “He didn’t answer. He was weeping. His body shaking. Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead… men have never before recited Kaddish for themselves” (33).

- "Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself" (34).

- "Have faith in life, a thousand times faith. By driving out despair, you will move away from death" (41).

- "Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done" (91).

- "if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test..." (77).

- "And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed" (91).]]> 2021-05-01 09:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480664365 Katrina Khoury (weaken) 67658 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480669033 - "His voice was terribly sad. I understood that he did not wish to see what they would do to me. He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames" (33).

- "My head was buzzing; the same thought surfacing over and over: not to be separated from my father" (35).]]> 2021-05-01 09:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480669033 Katrina Khoury (one another) 67658 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480682857 - "I was terribly hungry, yet I refused to touch it...My father swallowed my ration" (42).

- "Take care of your son. He is very weak, very dehydrated" (45).

- "I had watched it all happening without moving... In fact, I thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows" (54). 

- "But seeing that his advice had come too late, and that there was nothing left of my ration, he didn't even start his own" (44).]]> 2021-05-01 09:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1480682857 Noah Vega (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483127517 "Where is merciful God, where is He?" (64).]]> 2021-05-02 21:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483127517 Noah Vega (No) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483145670 "You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!" (68). ]]> 2021-05-02 21:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483145670 Noah Vega (one's self) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483169884 "At that moment, the others did not matter! They had not written me down" (72). ]]> 2021-05-02 21:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483169884 Noah Vega (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483233377 "He was not alone in having lost his faith during those days of selection" (76). ]]> 2021-05-02 22:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483233377 Noah Vega (Yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483235700 "It's over. God is no longer with us" (76).

]]> 2021-05-02 22:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483235700 Noah Vega (one's self) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483737517 "He must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us. 
I soon forgot him. I began to think of myself again" (86). 
]]> 2021-05-03 03:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483737517 Noah Vega (No) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483741361  "The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot" (86). ]]> 2021-05-03 03:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483741361 Noah Vega (strengthen) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483742675 "My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me" (86). ]]> 2021-05-03 03:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483742675 Noah Vega (Yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483767534 "Sons abandoned the remains of their fathers without a tear" (92). ]]> 2021-05-03 04:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1483767534 Lillian Wills (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1494783175 "Suddenly, we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God" (27).]]> 2021-05-05 16:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1494783175 Lillian Wills (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1494868289 "The instincts of self-preservation, of self defense, of pride, had all deserted us" (36).]]> 2021-05-05 17:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1494868289 Lillian Wills (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1494886790 "The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me" (37).]]> 2021-05-05 17:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1494886790 Lillian Wills (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1494928543 "My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. . . . Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal's flesh" (39).]]> 2021-05-05 17:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1494928543 Alyssa Elston (choices we make) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1496701675 "The choice was in our hands. For once. We could decide our fate for ourselves. To stay, both of us, in the infirmary, where, thanks to my doctor, he could enter as either a patient or a medic. I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went" (82). ]]> 2021-05-06 04:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1496701675 Alyssa Elston (choices we make) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1496707685 "After the war, I learned the fate of those who had remained at the infirmary. They were, quite simply, liberated by the Russians, two days after the evacuation" (82).]]> 2021-05-06 05:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1496707685 Alyssa Elston (weaken) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1496751951 "Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. No even your father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone" (110).]]> 2021-05-06 05:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1496751951 Alyssa Elston (weaken) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1496756892 "You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations . . . " (110-111).]]> 2021-05-06 05:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1496756892 Alyssa Elston (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499555746 "How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?” (67) ]]> 2021-05-06 18:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499555746 Alyssa Elston (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499560553 “I did not fast. . . I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned to act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him” (69). ]]> 2021-05-06 18:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499560553 Alyssa Elston (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499566797 “I suffer hell in my soul and my flesh. I also have eyes and I see what is being done here. Where is God’s mercy? Where’s God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?” (77). ]]> 2021-05-06 18:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499566797 Alyssa Elston (yes) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499568694 “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people” (81). ]]> 2021-05-06 18:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499568694 Alyssa Elston (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499574736 “Deep down, I was saying good-bye to my father, to the whole universe, and, against my will, I found myself whispering the words: “Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba . . . May His name be exalted and sanctified . . . “ (34). ]]> 2021-05-06 18:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499574736 Alyssa Elston (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499581172 “Blessed be God’s name . . . “ Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in storm” (67).]]> 2021-05-06 18:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1499581172 Isabel Stepanian (no) https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1533673170 "At the sign of the Lageralteste, the lagerkapo stepped up to the condemned youth. He was assisted by two prisoners. In exchange for two bowls of soup. "(62)]]> 2021-05-18 01:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1533673170 Daisy Combs-Ng: One's self https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1591937843 “I’ll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in the flames” (33)

“But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!…” (112)

”In fact, I was pleased with what was happening to him: my gold crown was safe. It could be useful to me one day, to buy something, some bread or even time to live" (52)]]> 2021-06-08 05:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1591937843 Daisy Combs-Ng: One Another https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1591941644 “For a ration of bread, I was able to exchange cots to be next to my father” (108)

"'Don't give in!"' my father tried to encourage him. "'You must resit! Don't lose faith in yourself!"' (102)]]> 2021-06-08 05:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1591941644 Katrina Khoury (choices we make) 67658 https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1591988697 "We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die..." (87). ]]> 2021-06-08 05:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/277411/ipxk97267quk93nz/wish/1591988697