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in 1941 Eliezer is a twelve-year-old boy living in Sighet
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the Hungarians expel all foreign Jews
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Moshe returns acter being captured and tells how the deportation trains were handed over to the Gestapo
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he explains the Jews were forced to dig their own graves and then killed by the Gestapo
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1944 germany overtakes and forces the jews into ghettos
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the jews were soon deported
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the Jews were tormented in unbearable conditions
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no air, intense heat,no room to sit, and everyone is hungry and thirsty.
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train arrives at the Czechoslovakian border and there the jews realize that they are not being relocated
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one lady begins to scream that she sees a fire in the darkness outside the car
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when the train stops they reached Auschwitz
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Through the windows everybody sees the chimneys of furnaces and smell the burning flesh
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At the first selection Eliezer and his dad are together. but they never sees his mom or sister again
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Jews were stripped and shaven also disinfected with gasoline then showered and given prison uniforms
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through this all they still express their faith in God
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Eliezer is chosen for a job counting electrical fittings
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Eliezer is chosen to have his gold crown pulled. but is able to postpone it
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during the allied air raid while soup was left unattended a man risks his life to crawl to the soup
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even though they were imprisoned the Jews came together to celebrate Rosh Hashanah
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Soon after the Jewish New Year another selection where Eliezer is seperated from his father
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When Eliezer returns from work his father is still alive
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the prisoners begin to suffer in the cold of the winter
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in the middle of a snowstorm they begin their evacuation
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anyone who stops running is shot
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they kept each other awake for falling asleep in the cold would be deadly
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After running all night and more than 42 miles they arrive at a deserted village
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The jews were herded into the cattle cars again and were told to throw out the bodies of the dead
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someone tries to strangle Eliezer in his sleep
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only 12 of the 100 were alive when the car stopped
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Eliezer’s father continued to approach death
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The doctors will not treat the old man
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Eliezer woke up to find that his father has been taken to the crematory
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about 20,000 people remained in the camp the Nazis decided to kill everyone left
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American army arrived at Buchenwald and freed the ones left in the camp