Chapter 3 - Carolina Leal , Denise Ruvalcaba p. 2

         In chapter 3, Elie and his family were being escorted from place to place. Once they got there, the women and the men were being separated by one of the SS men. When they were being separated, Elie's mother and sister went a different way from Elie and his father. As they went their own way, Elie held his fathers hand tightly to not lose him. An SS officer was giving orders and asked Ellie and his father for their age. When they answered, the inmate gave them a different age which was 18 and 40 and they were really 15 and 50. They kept walking and they get asked questions by an SS officer then they were told " Poor devils, you are heading for the crematorium."(32) When they were told that, they saw flames and a truck unloading babies and throwing then into the flames. Elie couldn't believe what he was seeing, he thought it was a dream. They were looking at the people being thrown into the flames and they were praying. As they were watching, they got closer to being thrown into the flames. When they were two steps away they were asked to turn left and got saved from the flames. They were ordered to strip and keep only their belt and their shoes. Once they were naked, they were ordered to go to the barber.The next day at five in  the morning, they were ordered to run because they were expelled from their barrack. They were soaked in disinfection, and took a hot shower. They were ordered to run once again., but this time they were throwing clothes at them. An SS officer came in and said "You are in a concentration camp. In Auschwitz.''As he told them that "Remember it always, let it be graven in your memories. You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you dont you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium-the choice is yours. "(39) Suddenly, Elie's father got a colic attack. The father asked a gypsy where the toilets were and then gypsy slapped him. One day in the afternoon, they were made to line up. As they lined up, three prisoners had a table with medical instruments. They were tattooed with a number. "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name."(42) As days passed, they had a daily routine which was black coffee in the mornings, soup in the middays, afternoon roll call, bread with something, and at nine o'clock was bedtime. One day, someone came up to Ellie's dad, saying if they remember him and it was a relative but the dad did not recognize him. Then they never saw him again. Days later they arrived to a new camp, Buna.