Caitlin Bradford, E.J. Paterline, Philip Schneider

In 1941 in a Hungarian town far from the war, A young Jewish boy Eliezer is more worried about studying the Tora, then what the Nazi's are about to do to him and his family. The spring of 1944 Eliezer finds himself face to face, with the true terror of the Nazis at Auschwitz.

Characters Eliezer Father Maimonides Mother Hilda sisters Bea sisters Tzipora baby Idek French girl at warehouse Moshe the Beadle

Eliezer was studying Cabbala with Moshe the Beadle Foreign Jews were expelled from homes by Hungarian Police After a few years the Fascists started to restrict the rights and take away all valuables from the Jews living in Hungary. Nazi’s come into Eliezer’s town and attack Jewish shops and synagogues.

On 7 th day on Passover leaders of Jewish community were arrested. All Jews were made to move into Ghettos surrounded by barbed wire fences Shortly after they were made to move to a smaller Ghetto.

They were taken out of Hungary to Auschwitz in cattle cars. A woman in the cattle car hallucinates and screams about fire and flames outside the car.(foreshadowing) When they arrived in Auschwitz, Eliezer’s family was split up. A prisoner told Eliezer and his father to lie about their ages so they could stay alive.

The Jews have to go through many inspections after arriving at the camp. Children are burned right away because they are little use to the Germans. All their belongings are taken and they are shaved head to toe. They are made to wear prisoner’s clothes. They were all given tattoos of numbers to identify them.

Elie and his father see many relatives, they are happy to know that they are still alive. They are forced to join a work detail at a warehouse for electrical equipment.

Elie has to see a dentist to remove his gold tooth because Jews were not allowed to own anything valuable. Elie and his father were beat up very badly by the leader of his block. Elie is punished by being whipped severely because he caught the block leader with a girl.

The electrical station is blown up and the blame goes to the Dutch Oberkapo. He and a child were found with an arms cache and hanged for everyone to see. They were made to look the child in the eyes even though he wasn’t dead yet.

Elie watches people die all around him Rosh Hashanah happens, Elie has lost all faith in god by now.

Winter comes and Elie’s foot swells, he has to have an operation. While recovering he gets word that the German’s are evacuating the camp, everyone in the hospital is to be left behind. Elie leaves the hospital fearing his fate would be worse there than with the others. Turns out the patients are liberated by the Russians a few days later.

They leave the camp at night and have to run through the snow, about 42 miles, many died from the cold. They meet a rabbi who was separated from his son and Elie remembers his son’s intentions to lose his father. Elie hopes he can overcome the feeling that his father is a burden to him too, but he can’t.

On their way to Buchenwald, they were crammed 100 to a cattle car, a 10 day journey, still with no food or drink. After arriving, After their journey in the snow, Gleiwitz is where they ended up. Three days without food or drink. Elie’s father was to ill\weak to live. In his sleep they had carried him off the crematory.

Elie stayed at Buchenwald three months after his father’s death. On April 10 th, the camp resistance organization decided to act to take over the camps and set the Jewish free.

Three days after the liberation Elie almost lost his life to food poisoning. Elie has had to face what he went through everyday, and still sees himself as a living corpse.