How did Elie save his father from the selection when Gleiwitz was evacuated?
In Chapter 6, after Elie first saves his father by staying by his side and pushing him on as they were forced to run nonstop from their camp in Buna to the new Gleiwitz Camp, he again saves his father when the next selection is made. This is how Elie is able to save his father.
What was in store for the father and son at Auschwitz?
Significance: If WWII hadn’t happened, Elie would receive the shop and his father’s gold if his father died because everything goes to the son. But now all his father has to give him is a knife and a spoon.
How has the relationship between Eliezer and his father changed during their time at Auschwitz?
As seen in Night, the relationship between Elie and his father changes during their time in Auschwitz from one of closeness to estrangement. As Elie’s father Shlomo grows weaker, Elie comes to feel that he’s becoming a burden to him. When Sholom finally dies, Elie feels the burden finally lift.
What are Elie and his family told as they pull into Auschwitz?
They are told that they have arrived at a labor camp where they will be treated well and kept together as families. This news comes as a relief, and the prisoners let themselves believe, again, that all will be well.
What choice does each man have at Auschwitz?
What choice does each man have at Auschwitz? They have the option to work or go to the crematorium.
What happens to Elie’s family when they arrive at Auschwitz?
What happens to Elie’s family when they arrive? When the family arrives at Auschwitz, the men and women are separated, and Eliezer sees his mother and sisters vanishing in the distance. He holds onto his father and is determined not to lose him.
WHO recognizes Elie’s father?
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What did Mrs Schachter foreshadow?
Madame Schachter’s nightmare foreshadowed the annihilation of many of Elie’s Jewish family and neighbors in the crematoriums at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps during World War two.
Did Mrs Schachter die?
Does Madame Schachter die? She dies, along with Elie’s mother at Birkenau. Madame Schachter: A woman of about fifty with a ten year old child. On the train ride to Auschwitz, she starts to lose her mind.
What was wrong with Mrs Schachter?
Why has Mrs. Schachter gone crazy? She was separated from her husband and two older sons. They were deported accidentally.
Why did Mrs Schachter scream fire?
Madame Schachter screams because she is going mad scared. She is put in a cattle car with her son after accidentally being seperated from the rest of her family. She “kept” screaming “FIRE!” because she was seeing visions of the Holocaust.
Why was Mrs Schachter crazy?
Mrs. Schächter, like Moishe, is another prophet-like character. She is a middle-aged woman who goes crazy after she’s separated from her husband and packed into a cattle car headed to Auschwitz.
How do the other people get Mrs Schachter to stop yelling?
I see a fire!” (Wiesel, 49). Mrs. Schächter startles the other prisoners, who beg her to stop screaming and place a damp rag on her forehead in an attempt to calm her nerves. Elie then watches as the young men bound and gag her again before physically assaulting her to make her stop screaming.
What did the passengers do to quiet Madame Schachter?
What did some of the passengers do to quiet Madame Schachter? The passengers hit her, gagged her, and tied her up.
What did the passengers actually see in Birkenau?
How do the passengers react to her? The passengers believed Madame Schächter saw this because she was an insane person ever since the rest of her family got separated from her and her ten year-old child. Madame Schächter may have seen this as a way of foreshadowing what the appearance of Auschwitz would be.
How does Elie’s family get separated?
When the family arrives at Auschwitz, Elie and his father are separated from his mother in the sorting. Right away, the men are separated from the women and children. Since Elie is old enough to work, he goes with his father and the men. Everyone forms two lines, and the women and children are marched off.
What whispers does Elie hear as the Jews realize they are facing an unimaginable nightmare?
An unimaginable nightmare? I heard whispers around me: “We must do something. We can’t let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse.
What actually happened to his mother and Tzipora?
Tzipora and his mother Sarah were murdered in Auschwitz, and he and his father were transferred to the Buna labor camp. With the advance of the Red Army, the two of them were forced on a death march to the Buchenwald concentration camp.