By Adam Kazmierczak

 This is talking about when Moshe the Beadle came back. This is loss of identity because when he came back he wasn’t himself any more. Like they say he use to sing, talk about god, and he now has no joy in his eyes. What made him lose his identity was having to see all the babies and kids killed by the Nazis.

 This is definitely loss of identity because now they are forcing the Jews to give them their valuables. Now some Jews hid their valuables but others had to give them things like family aurums, rings, and many other things. And then if you didn’t give them your valuables then they would kill you.

 This is loss of identity now because they had to wear the Star of David. This might not look so bad but it is the start of their right being taken away. Also now people would start to treat you different if you were just walking down the road and a German saw the star they might spit on you or some other thing.

 This is loss of identity because they are taking away their rights. They cant go the restaurants they cant travel by train, they cant go to the synagogue to practice their religion, and they cant go out after six. And by doing this they are taking away things they might do every day.

 Now for Elie and his family they were lucky because they didn’t to have to leave their house. But for other families they had to get out of their house to go to one of the two ghettos and hope to find a nice family to let them live with them. But for most people they had to leave their house the place where their kids were raised the place where they might have spent their whole life.

 This is loss of identity because all the people are being forced out of the houses and on to a train. They are leaving their lives and almost everything they use to have they were only allowed one bag. They are being forced to leave the place and people they love to go on a train that will take them on a journey that they never could have imagined.

 This is loss of identity because the men from being treated like animals they are acting like animals. From how they are being treated they are for getting how to act civilized and good and now for most of them its every man for them self. Also they are being starved and do not have much food or water so when there is food they fight to the death for it.

 This is loss of identity because he is starting to act less like himself and not wanting to help his father. Here he is starting to become like the people on the train just looking out for him self. He starts to think that if his father is gone then he can look after him self better.

 This is loss of identity because he did not see himself as himself any more. When he looked in the mirror he didn’t look like he use to he now looked like a corpse. He is not who he use to be because he had lost almost all his family and he had to go through all the death.