Images of Auschwitz
- Removed clothing and prisoners ran around naked.
- Smoke from the crematoriums.
- Babies thrown into pits.
- Showers.
- Prisoners stood in mud.
- Barracks.
- SS officers every few yards with machine guns.
- Stripped pajamas/uniforms.
- Selection
Dehumanization
- Walk in a straight line.
- Separate from families.
- Make Jews take off clothes.
- Made Jews take group showers.
- Forced Jews to run naked in the cold night.
- Provided clothes that don’t fit.
- Forced them to do labor.
- Threatened the prisoners with their life.
- Send people to the crematorium.
- Nazis would beat or shoot.
- Starve the prisoners.
- Brand numbers on them.
Stein of Antewarp is a relative of Elie’s mom. The mom was the aunt of Stein’s wife Reizel and Stein’s wife wrote a lot to them. Stein visited when he could and he would always bring food to them like so that they would survive and he helps them along the way with advice. Elie lied to Stein and said that his wife and two kids are still alive so that he wouldn’t be sad and give up on life. I think Elie was morally right to lie to him because later on in the story Stein admits that “The only thing that keeps me alive, is to know that Reizel and the little ones are alive” “Were if not for them, I would give up”. so i think it was right for Elie to have lied.
