The prisoners were being evacuated because
the Russians where get close and they would not let the jews at work free
. People who transport the dead bodies to their graves. … Other passengers would fight to the death for a nibble of food.
Why were the prisoners evacuated from Auschwitz in the book night?
In chapter 5 of Night, the camp is evacuated
because the Red Army is fast approaching
. Those who stayed behind in the hospital are liberated by the Russians.
What were the prisoners forced to do during the evacuation night?
The prisoners are evacuated at night in the snow. They are forced
to run- the penalty for slowing down was death
! At the first rest stop, Elie and his father take refuge in a shed. Elie learns Rabbi Eliahou’s son has purposely abandoned his own father.
What happened to the prisoners in the night?
If so, those prisoners who
did not evacuate were liberated by the Russians two
days later. However, Elie and his father choose to leave with the officers and other healthy prisoners, & so end up at two more camps, Gleiwitz and Buchenwald.
Why did Elie decide to evacuate and not stay in hospital?
They
wanted to stay together
and also believed they had better chances of survival if they joined the evacuation out of Buna. Eliezer established after the war that their decision was a mistake because those left behind were simply liberated. I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went.
What was Elie’s father’s last words?
At dawn on January 29, Elie wakes and discovers that another invalid occupies his father’s bunk. He assumes that his father has been taken to the crematory and recalls that his father’s final word was “
Eliezer
.” Too weary for tears, Elie realizes that death has liberated him from a doomed, irretrievable burden.
What happened to the SS after World War 2?
Though members of the
SS continued to stand in defendant’s docks in the Federal Republic of Germany
and elsewhere after the end of World War II—even up to the present day—the vast majority of SS and police were never called to account for their crimes.
What did prisoners do when they were free?
At the end of Night, the prisoners were not concerned about anything but food. … Once the liberation took place, all the
prisoners wanted was to eat
. Elie recounts the events that happened after they were freed. Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions.
Why do the prisoners use spoons to eat snow off of each other’s backs?
The SS men were watching the prisoners eat the snow off of their neighbors back with spoons
so that they would not be thirsty since they could not bend down
.
What stares back at Elie at the end of the novel?
What stares back at Elie at the end of the novel?
Elie’s reflection on a mirror stares
back at him, he describes the image as a living corpse.
What is the last thing Juliek does before dying?
Overall, Juliek’s last act was
to play Beethoven on his violin for the malnourished
, exhausted Jewish prisoners before he passed away later that night. Juliek’s last act was to play his violin “to an audience of dying and dead men”.
Do the released prisoners think of revenge?
Wiesel comments that none of the
prisoners think of revenge
when they are first
freed
. His tone in this passage suggests that he
thinks
that
revenge
should be sought, but in the very next paragraph, he describes how he became ill with food poisoning, and talk of
revenge
disappears from the narrative.
What happened in section 7 of night?
During the night,
somebody tries to strangle Eliezer
. The man in charge of the wagon (who also happens to be a friend of Eliezer’s dad), Meir Katz, manages to save him. On the last day of the journey, an icy wind blows through them. It seems that they can’t possibly survive such a cold wind.
Did Elie Wiesel lose his foot?
No,
Elie Wiesel did not lose his leg
. After walking for almost 42 miles in the snow, on the way to Gleiwitz concentration camp, Wiesel’s foot became…
What is ironic about Elie’s foot surgery?
You don’t die of it…” The statement is ironic because that is
precisely how Elie’s father dies
. Elie has just had foot surgery and is recovering in the hospital. He is told that he and his father can stay behind at the hospital while the rest of the prisoners are deported: The choice was in our hands.
What did Akiba Drumer ask the others to do when he died?
Akiba Drumer makes a simple request to his fellow inmates: that they
say the Kaddish for him
after his death. In Judaism, the Kaddish is a hymn of praise often sung after someone has died. … Even so, he still asks the other inmates to say Kaddish for him when he dies.
