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Moishe
Eliezer listens to Moishe the Beadle tell of the horrors he witnessed and experienced at the hands of the Germans. -
Germans
Eliezer, along with his family and all of the other Jews in Sighet, is banished to a ghetto just outside of Sighet. With his family and many other Sighet Jews, Eliezer is packed into a cattle car and sent to Birkenau. -
Birkenau
Waiting through the first long night at Birkenau, seeing death all around them, Eliezer loses his faith in God’s justice. -
Buna warehouse
Eliezer and his father are moved to a new camp, Buna, where they work in a warehouse. -
Rosh Hashanah
On Rosh Hashanah, Eliezer decides man is stronger than God. -
Selections
Eliezer passes "selection" (for the crematoria) and Eliezer’s father mistakenly thinks he’s passed as well. When Eliezer’s dad realizes that he hasn’t passed and needs to go through a second round of selection. Eliezer’s father thinks he might die and gives Eliezer the inheritance—a knife and a spoon. Eliezer tries to refuse it but at last he takes it. -
Death March
When Eliezer realizes that Rabbi Eliahou’s son had deliberately left his father behind, to rid himself of the burden, he prays to the God for the strength not to do that to his own father. -
Father's death
As his father gets sicker and weaker, Eliezer’s strength and will are tested. He keeps his father alive until they arrive at the next camp, Buchenwald. Even there, he keeps him alive for several days.
When his father is dying, from the of dysentery and a blow to the head given by an SS officer, he is calling Eliezer’s name.
When Eliezer awakens in the morning, his father’s body is gone. Eliezer feels guilty, but he also feels relieved that his father is dead, and free, at last. -
Food poisoning
His first act as a free man is to eat like crazy. After his feasting, he gets food poisoning and goes to the hospital, where he almost dies.
When he is at last released from the hospital, Eliezer looks in the mirror and sees a corpse. He says he has never forgotten the look in his eyes that day. -
Resistance movement
On 5 April 1945 the inmates are told the camp is to be liquidated and they are to be moved, another death march. On 11 April, with 20,000 other inmates still inside, a resistance movement inside the camp against the remaining SS officers occurs and takes control. At six o'clock that evening, an American tank arrives at the gates, and behind it the Sixth Armored Division of the United States Third Army.