Moishe the Beadle is a homeless man in the book Night. He is described as living in a life of penancece. He is a man of the church that spends his time on the steps of the synagogue. He is well mannered and does not often beg. Elizer askes him for his teaching but he says every person must walk through their own door ce. He doesnt teach Eliezer, but they often have biblical conversations on the steps of the synagogue.
That he doesn t know why he prays when Moishe asks him. He also says he is unsure of the reason he cries, but he simply feels something inside of him that wants to cry. He is moved by his faith emotionally.When Moishe returns he tells of the train ride, then the trucks going into the forest before they (the Jews) were ordered to dig trenches before they were shot one by one. He says he escaped because he was only injured. He also talks of a little girl who was slowly dieing and a father requesting to be killed before his sons.
The Jewish people didn t believe him because they thought he was looking for sympathy and money. Also many people had thought he had gone mad as he was crying, rambling, etc.5. Curfew was put into place. Jews were not allowed to posses gold or silver. Curfew was put into place. German officers move into Hungary (and soon into Jewish homes) Jews are forced to wear the yellow star. Two ghettos were created. Germans enslave Jewish men to load coal into their trains.
Germans move Jews from large ghetto into the smaller ghetto before deporting them.6. Ghetto a part of some cities where Jews were required to live. (Webster dictionary 2004)7. The Jews ignored the truth due to their hope. They thought the red army would get to them or defeat Germany before the Nazis could try and eliminate them.The train is packed with people, there no where to sit. The windows are sealed and it almost impossible to move.
The phrase was used to explain how the Jews of sighet had realized their fate only after they had been rounded up, put in cattle cars and sent off. The train had crossed the Hungarian border. Madame Schacter a,cs vision foreshadows the crematorium. Madame Schacter had begun to scream about a fire. Many found it frightening and began to beat her until she was silenced. The soon bound and gagged her to stop her seemingly pointless banter.
The train stops in Auschwitz, though Elie is transferred to Birkenau almost immediately. Chapter 31. Elie was told by an older inmate to lie about his age, he also lies about his job so he seems stronger. He lies because he knows people who are too young, old, or weak will be sent to death.2. The first event that made Elie doubt the accuracy of his eyes was a truck with a cargo of babies that were being thrown into a fire.
When Elie said this he means that the holocaust, especially the crematorium, killed his belief in a Go. Elie notices changes in himself over a short period of time. His father is slapped by a guard, and he doesn et so much as blink. Where as, before he had the will to defend him practically to his death Better than Birkenau. Cement buildings with two stories rather than wooden barracks. Little gardens here and there Elie first impression of Auschwitz. The compulsory formalityce at the entrance to all camps was all had to go through the showers.
The only identification used for prisoners was the numbers tattooed on their forearms. One bowl of thick soup is their first ration but later theyre also given bread with it. Bela Katz was forced to work in the crematorium, leading to him putting his own father in the furnace. The purpose of the exams were to find gold fillings in the mouths of the Jewish prisoners.2. Beethoven was German, and thus it was disgraceful for Jewish musicians to play German music.
Idek is prone to sudden outbursts of rage. When Elie crosses his path, Idek beats him mercilessly, but he soon ceases and moves on. To avoid having his gold crown stolen from him, Elie tells the dentist he is sick with fever, and that he Ill return when he healthy. Elie meets the French woman who comforted him after Ideks beating, in Paris metro years later. During an alert, one man crawls to two unattended soup cauldrons. He gets to them, with other prisoners watching. He screams before diving face first into them, before getting shot by an SS guard. Juliek asks Elie when the hanging will be over, because he hungry, it suggests he really doest care for the boy being hanged, or the though of death itself.
The prisoners cried at one hanging because of a pipel with angel eyes who was too light to die, so he was left hanging for a half hour, slowly choking to death.Chapter 51. Elie didnt fast for multiple reasons. First being, they were already starving and fasting would only make them starve quicker. Second being, his father had forbidden it. Third was that Elie saw it pointless as he had lost his faith in God.2. Elie and the others were advised that passing selection was to pass the SS, not to fear them, and put color back in their bodies.3. Elie father begins to give him everything he had to his son.
A spoon and knife as inheritance to help him survive. Akiba Drumer had asked Elie and others to say Kaddish for him, but they forgot him entirelyts right foot was swelling with puss from the cold, he goes to the infirmary because the pain soon becomes unbearable.6. The camp was evacuated due to the approaching Allies. The SS intended to leave no evidence and destroyed the camp after it had been evacuated. Those left in the infirmary were liberated 2 days after the evacuation.Chapter 61. Anyone who could not keep up with the march was trampled or shot.2.
Zalmn began to suffer from cramps and pulled out of line to relieve himself. Elie guesses he was killed in the shuffle, because he didnDD,A,et hear any gunshots. Rabbi Elihou comes to Elie searching for his son. Elie remembers noticing the rabbi son trying to escape his father during the march, to be free of the burden. Elie hopes to never do that to his father.
Juliek last act was to play a piece of Beethoven concerto. He was found dead the next morning. When Elie Da,cs father had been selected for death Elie causes enough commotion to drag his father to the other side unnoticed. Elie once again saves his father,a,cs life on the train as several men were throwing the dead out. When they wanted to do the same to Elie father Elie proved that he was still alive and kept him from freezing to death on the train.
Elie watched a son murder his father for a piece of bread, who then in turn was killed by others for the same piece of bread.3. When they were put on the wagon there was 100 of them, 12 got off the wagon at Buchenwald. Upon arriving in Buchenwald, Elie father becomes weak and defenceless and Elie was the only one to protect him. Elie had taken his father role.Elie father was being beaten by other prisoners because he could no longer get up to relieve himselfElie agreed with the advice he was given and felt guilty for his thoughts almost immediately.
On April 5th the SS were unusually late followed by an announcement for everyone to go to the Appleplatz. After a warning from a prisoner the children stay in their blocks, an underground resistance was planning a revolt on the Kommandant, who began evacuating the camp The resistance movement was a group of prisoners that had gathered weapons and explosives and attacked the SS, liberating the camp.
