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Post by abigail j. on Feb 4, 2014 19:47:19 GMT
Pg.29 "'Men to the left! Women to the right' 8 words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. 8 simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine: we were alone."
This quote best describes the new place of family in Auschwitz because it shows that families were separated from the very beginning. It shows that right away families were split apart and weren't even given a chance. After a while the Germans get exactly what they want though and the Jews eventually forget about their families as their identities are stripped away. Elie doesn't mention his other family after they are separated because he knows that he will never see them again and their is a chance that they might even be dead. After what the Jews go through family doesn't really matter to them anymore. Elie and his father were extremely lucky to be kept together though, because most people didn't have anyone. He mentions that him and his father were alone but atleast he had his father.
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Post by Sydney W. on Feb 4, 2014 19:48:06 GMT
"Yossi and Tibi, two brothers from Czechoslovakia whose parents had been exterminated in Birkenau. They lived for each other, body and soul."
When in a terrible situation, one of the only things you can turn to for comfort is your family. When in Auschwitz, very few people get to remain with their family and feel they have nothing to live for. Although physical pain from the German officers is bad, the mental pain of being alone can be much worse. You do not know the fate of your relatives when you get separated or your own. Especially as a child, when you get scared you will want someone close to you to turn to.
I think that all of the Jews somewhat consider each other as "family". They are all going through the same thing, and know how to be there for each other. They can relate to what is happening, and the strong can be there for the weak.
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Post by Juliet A. on Feb 4, 2014 19:48:32 GMT
"Please, sir... I'd like to be near my father." "All right. Your father will work here, next to you." We were lucky"
"And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever. I went on walking. My father held onto my hand"
ran out of time...
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Post by Omar C on Feb 4, 2014 19:49:28 GMT
The quote I choose was..."And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever. I went on walking. My father held onto my hand." This quote was located on page 29. I felt like this quote basically summoned up families felt in the concentration camps, separation. I could see how almost everyone there could feel this way except the lucky ones that were able to stick together. This could be hard for the people at the camp because you had lived, spent your whole life, and loved these people for many years to just be separated into different lines. Also it should that these families had no choice. This shown at the end of the quote ". I went on walking. My father held onto my hand." this shows that the the families felt both without choice and separation.
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Post by Sam T. on Feb 4, 2014 21:45:40 GMT
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Post by sam T on Feb 4, 2014 21:46:34 GMT
did not mean to do this wrote in wrong box |
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Post by Nate A on Feb 5, 2014 0:35:45 GMT
" I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever. I kept walking, my father holding my hand."
This quote shows the families leaving each other forever and splitting up. His family was gone and would part ways forever except for his father. This quote shows that there would be new people around him that would act as his family but would never truly have a complete family again. It also shows that he would never leave the only member of his family left because that is all he would ever know.
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Post by Kendall P. on Feb 5, 2014 4:59:58 GMT
"I knew nothing about them... Since 1940 my mother had not received a single letter from them. But I lied: 'Yes, my mother did hear from them. Reizel is fine. So are the children...'" "How we would have liked to believe that. We pretended, for what if one of us still did believe?"
These two quotes represent the Auschwitz family, portrayed in Night. They both display the compassion for each other and the need to keep one another's hopes up. They knew that although lies, these statements would help them get through the horrors of the camp and become hopeful once again. Hope drives people to keep pushing forward and going one day further and without that, humans would not come as far as we have. |
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Post by Kendall P. on Feb 5, 2014 5:05:02 GMT
" I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever. I kept walking, my father holding my hand." This quote shows the families leaving each other forever and splitting up. His family was gone and would part ways forever except for his father. This quote shows that there would be new people around him that would act as his family but would never truly have a complete family again. It also shows that he would never leave the only member of his family left because that is all he would ever know. At first I didn't see how this fit, but its quite insightful. It does not relate to the situation posed by the problem, but rather the foreshadowing of events. The final comment about 'all he would ever know' is also quite powerful, it really leaves you thinking about the children whose families were killed early on, of didn't make it past the cattle carts. |
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Post by Kendall P. on Feb 5, 2014 5:08:33 GMT
The quote I choose was..."And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever. I went on walking. My father held onto my hand." This quote was located on page 29. I felt like this quote basically summoned up families felt in the concentration camps, separation. I could see how almost everyone there could feel this way except the lucky ones that were able to stick together. This could be hard for the people at the camp because you had lived, spent your whole life, and loved these people for many years to just be separated into different lines. Also it should that these families had no choice. This shown at the end of the quote ". I went on walking. My father held onto my hand." this shows that the the families felt both without choice and separation. I see a majority of the people have used this quote to answer to question at hand, but you added a good sense of empathy to it. I also like how you include the bit about 'out witting the system' when you mention that the families had no choice. |
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