It seems for a while that death is imminent.Eliezer comments, as the narrator, "Is it any wonder that ever since then, sleep tends to elude me?".Near Eliezer, there’s a pit of fire into which small children are being dumped-alive.When Eliezer is questioned, he lies and says that he’s 18 and a farmer, rather than 15 and a student.Josef Mengele was an infamous Nazi doctor who selected which prisoners would be sent to labor and which would die.) Mengele and divided into two groups: one group, presumably, is going to be working the other group will head straight to the crematorium.
The male prisoners are in a line being questioned by Dr.The prisoner points to the smokestacks and asks if they know what’s being burned there? Basically he says: that’s where you’re going to die.Hadn’t they heard of Auschwitz in 1944? The new prisoners all have to admit that no, they hadn’t heard about Auschwitz. Another prisoner tells them they would have been better off hanging themselves than to come here.Age can mean the difference between life and death. On hearing that Eliezer is 15 and his father is 50, the prisoner tells them they should be 18 and 40. A kind prisoner comes up to Eliezer and his father, asking them their ages.
Already, some Jews are being beaten and shot.Eliezer’s one thought is not to lose his father.Although he does not know it at the moment, this is the last time Eliezer will ever see his mother and youngest sister Tzipora.
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