Section 5 Summary-Jennifer Rodriguez 2

The Germans & Jews Celebrating Rosh Hashanah

God Is Represented In Different Symbols

Horror That Was One Of The Things Elie Had To See & Experience

Ellie knowing it's the end of the year , the Rosh Hashana.Knowing it's the time for fasting.Most people fast,but Elie's faith is completely gone for God.In the beginning of his new life at the concentration camp, he was religous becayse life was good .While days pass,his belief for god faded away .He asks himself for what reason doe she deserve this if he was good.Obeying the rules,being good ,and yet this is what god gave me.His belief in god has changed with his father as well.He thought he wasn't the man he thought he was when his father was being beaten.Elie believes that there is no point in believing in anything ,if he knows that things are bad.In my opinion ,everything that Elie believed in ,may still be in him but he will still have that feeling of not believing .All he see's is death , horror,and sadness at the camps.He thought at first things weren't going to be bad ,but as he see's he deaths and torture , he now thinks that things are becoming bad.Who knows if Elie will continue to not believe in god , his father or in anything.

Anthony Hernandez & Odalyz Abrero Period 3

In section 6 we find Elizerr being forced to run to a new camp, and the SS will shoot anyone whole falls behind. The prisoners are running to a new camp because the Russians are trying to set them free and the Germans don't want that. While Elizer is running he meets a young boy named Zalman who eventually dies because he could not run  anymore. After the prisoners finish running they find themselves in a deserted village where they decide to rest. Elizer's father wakes Elizer up because if he falls asleep in the snow he would die of hypothermia so they decide to take turn watching over each other through the night. While Elizer is in the shed were he and his father were sleeping a man named Rabbie Eliahou is asking if someone has seen his son because they had gotten separated in the running. Elizer remembers seeing Rabbie Eliahou's son running ahead of his father because he thought that his father would not survive. Elizer prays that he will never do what Rabbie Eliahou's son had done.

Jew's that got shot because they fell behind 

The next day when the Jews finally arrvive at Gleiwitz they are packed into barracks. There are so many people in the barracks that Elizer thinks that he was going to suffocate, people are being crushed to death due to the mass amount of people crowded in the barracks. While Elizer is being pushed around he find himself on top of Juliek. Juliek is the musician who he met in Buna, Sadly in the morning Elizer find Juliek dead and his violin broken.They stayed in Gleiwitz for three days without food or water. In the third day there is selection and Elizer's father is being sent to the left because he cannot walk well. Elizer runs after his dad and makes a big disturbance so that he and his father are able to move to the right. The prisoners are later waiting for the cattle cars to be transported but they are so deprived of water that they eat ice with spoons out of each other’s back. After the wait the cattle cars arrive and 100 prisoners are loaded in each cattle car.

Jews in cattle cars being ready to be transported.

Jew being over crowded in cattle cars.

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It was the last day of the year, Rosh Hashanah. The word last made Elie think if it was realy the last day for him to live. Elie doubts his faih in god and angrily thinks why he should praise god the almighty." Why but why would I bless him? Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves?" (67)  Elie says to himself why he should praise god when he has killed thousands of children. Elie thinks about everything god has done to world, only hurt, when all they have done is praise him. Eli is then transferred him to another kommando. The first selection had happened, everybody had to run very fast, everyone who did not pass the selection would be killed. Eli had passed and so had his father, but a few days passed and another selection happened. His father was chsen to be in the next selection, he asked Elie to take his spoon and knife. Eli's father passed the selection but Akiba Drumer was a victim of the selection. Winter had arrived and Elie's foot began to swell up from the cold. Elie gets his foot operated on, everything goes well, but the russians had come closer. They soon get ready to be evacuated to a new camp.


   
Forming ranks to be evacuated.                                        Jews naked for the selection.

Section 4 - Ashly Dominguez period 2

    In section four of the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, Elie goes through quite an adventure. Even though he gets away from the dealing dentist who gets locked up, he still doesn't get away with loosing his golden tooth which is valuable to him. A cruel foreman, Idek, finds his way to get Elie's tooth by torchuring his dad until the point where Elie couldn't take the pain to see his dad suffer any longer. In the book, Elie says, "It was untenable. We had to give in" (56). 

At camp Buna, Elie and his father are never seperated. They are housed to a musicians' block where Elie meets Juliek, and two brothers named Yossi and Tibi. Elie and his father both work in a civilian warehouse where they count electrical fittings. Elie and his working crew are assigned a very violent Kapo named Idek. When Idek is in a bad mood, he torchures Elie and his father for no apparent reason. He has even humiliated Elie in front of a lot of inmates at the camp. Elie says, "He took his time between the lashes. Only the first really hurt." (57). Idek is very selfish and thinks only for himself. Elie has changed toward his father because instead of getting mad at Idek for beating his father, he gets mad at his own father for not being able to dodge Idek's fury.

 One day, as Elie was resting from work, the camp Buna was bombed. All the alarms went off and all the Bloclalteste gathered the inmates in their blocks. Anyone who was to be found outside of their blocks, were to get shot by the SS. Since so many things were happening at this time, next to the kitchen were two unattended cauldrons of hot steaming soup. So many inmates desired for the soup, but fear overtoook hunger. One starving inmate was the only one who dared to try to get the soup, but once he reached it, he was immediately shot. To everyone, he was already dead once he took a step toward the soup. After the bombing was over, Elie and all the other inmates were to clean the ruins that were left of the several flattened buildings. A week or so later, Elie experienced his first hanging in camp Buna. The last hanging he experienced was horrible for him because the boy being hanged was so young and innocent. Because of all his experiences in the holocaust, Elie has lost his faith in God. He doesn't think he should serve a God who is not willing to protect such innocent people.

 I think this section was a rough stage for Elie because he went through so much at camp Buna. From his tooth, the bombings, to Idek constantly humiliating him and lastly to the hangings. Elie has changed his ways toward God and even his own father. Elie is a very strong boy but the holocaust has changed him.

Inmates in Camp Buna being observed by SS.

Camp Buna Factory

Night chapter 4, johnathan gutierrez-2

In chapter 4, Elie and his father have just arrived at a new camp: Buna. Elie describes the camp as " though it been through an epidemic: empty and dead." The head of thecamp met tem there, he was a stocky man with big shoulders, neck of a bull, thick lips, and curly hair."(47) Elie and his father then began to look for people they knew. Many inmates described the camp as " Buna is a very good camp. One can hold one's own here."(48) "A tough looking boy with shifty eyes" as Elie described him came over to him and asked him if he would like to get into a good kommando. the only thing he boy asked was for Elie's shoes and in return Elie asked for his father to stay with him. But then later Elie's shoes were later taken away. He then was sent for a medical checkup, but they hardly examined him, they just asked " are you in good health?"(48) Him and his father were then moved to the musicians block. They had a as there leader. One day Idek was venting with fury and happend to cross his path. idek then threw himself at him like a wild beast, Elie was aching all over. Idek was a Kapo and was very violent. At the end of the chapter, Elie asks himself where god is, while a child was hanged. "For God's sake, where is God."(65)

     

The Unexpected - Alondra Tamayo 3

This picture below shows Jewish people being hanged.

               The beliefs of the Jewish people faided  when they saw the hangings that occured. The prisoners were forced to see these 3 people die that day which one of them included the young boy. They were all sentence to death because the two men hanged stole two plates of soup which they weren't suppose too and they were caught. This was a message for the prisoners that ment that if you steal you will pay the price.

              A young boy was hanged because he was caught stealing when a electrical plant at Buna failed. Which they found a trail where they found important superior weapons hidden. The boy was also sentenced by law that condemned to death. Everyone was forced to see the three gallows during roll call. The three prisoners were in chains and everyone just staired at them.

            "All eyes were on them." (64) He was the last one to die the two older men right away the young boy lasted for 30 minutes still moving and breathing. "His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet estinguished"(65).

Religion ( Kaddish)

Elie's feelings toward God changed throught the book. In the beginning Elizer was very religious and wanted to know more about Kaddish. Now in Chapter 4 his feelings toward God faided. "This is where- hanging here from this gallows..." (65). This shows that Elie thinks that God is dead because since they were send from concentration camp to concetration camp God didn't help them at all. So how could he thank God if they are living in hell right now.

This picture shows how Jews were laughed at and touchered by the SS officers. Which connects to Elizer's father that was beaten up by Idek. Elizer was angry because his father did not defent himself from Idek. He knew that he could of have beaten up Idek, but he didn't. Idek (Kapo) is a very violent man and is he explodes he will tourcher the first person he sees. Elizer's feelings towards his dad changed from the beginning till now "I felt anger at the moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father" (54).

Night Section 4-Damien Munguia, David Munguia

Soon after Eliezer and the rest of Jews are sent to Buna, another concentration camp, they then wait to be asigned to their new Kommandos-the worst being the Construction Kommando. The next day began the medical examinations of all the prisoners. The physical examinations were unorthodox, while the dental examination was far from discovering tooth decay. The examinations were unorthodox because the doctors were simply asking, "Are you in good health?" Beyond that there were no other questions. Elie and his father are chosen by a Kapo to serve in a unit of prisoners who's job is to count electrical parts. They are both housed in a musicians block, led by a German Jew. After a few days in Buna, Eliezer is summoned by the dentist, when Elie asked the dentist why he had been summoned, the dentist replied with, "I shall remove you gold crown, that is all." Elie quickly reply with, "Couldn't you wait a few days sir? I don't feel well, I have a fever..." Two weeks later, the dentists office was shut down because he was trading in the gold for his own benefit. The dentist was immediately hung for his crimes. Eliezer's "Kapo," Idek, was going into a rage and Elie was unfortunate enough to come across it. The young women working next to him however, assisted Elie in both cleaning him up, and making him feel better with some kind words. "Bite your lips little brother . . . Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now . . . Wait. Clench your teeth and wait . . ." Eliezer and his father were unfortunate enough to be caught in Idek's fits. One day, his father was the one that Idek directed his anger towards. Instead of being angry with Idek, Elie was primarily mad towards his father for not simply avoiding him. Franek was another man who took advantage of Eliezer's weakness. His gold crown that he managed to keep safe from the dentist, was pried from his mouth from a rusty spoon. 

Elie had changed so much due to the cruelty of the camps; from his father, to his belief, and finally, towards his thought of death. One hanging that he witnessed involving one man that had stolen during an air raid had hardly affected him. He was actually grateful because of the statement following the ceremony. "I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever . . ." But yet another hanging occurred, but this time involving a young pipel and two other men for harboring weapons. The young pipel was beloved, no one was able to watch with dry eyes. Not even the executioner was able to do his work and denied to do his job. Once the floor was removed from their feet, the two men died, but the young boy remained alive for half an hour. This had made Eliezer taste the soup of that of corpses, as well as severely cripple his faith in God