"Night" Section 3- Hilary Duarte per.2 & Jennifer Hernandez per.1

In this section 3 of "Night" Elie and his family arrive at Birkenau and are separated. They were told "Men to the left! Women to the  right!"(29).  Here they were given advice from another inmate to lie about his age in order to survive. Elie was told to be 18 and his father 40. Then they were marched to the crematoria where they were foced to think this would be the end of their lives. This is the first time Elie witnessed the horrors of  Auschwitz. Just as they were about to reach their doom they were ordered to march into barracks. Here they were stripped of their clothing, had their hair shaved, and foced to endure the cold. Then they were taken to Auschwitz. Here is where Elie hears his first human words spoken to him since arriving at Auschwitz. Days later they were tattooed numbers. From here on out Elie was known as A-7713. While at Auschwitz they encounter a relative from Antwerp, Stein. He syas that the only reason he is still alive is because he is clinging to the hope that his wife and children might still be alive. One day he hears that more deportees were brought in from Antwerp and he went to go find out if his wife and children were among them. After this they never saw him again. Days later they were deported to another part of Auschwitz: Buna.