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All foreign Jews are expelled from Sighet, including Elie's friend, Moshe the Beadle
"He was the jack-of-all-trades in a Hasidic house of prayer...His presence bothered no one. He had mastered the art of rendering himself insignificant, invisible."Moshe returns to warn Elie of deportation and being handed over to the Gestapo
"Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners."They are being deported to Auschwitz with other people in a railway cattle car.
"There was nothing there; only the darkness"Elie and his father are sent to Auschwitz
"My hand shifted on my father’s arm. I had one thought– not to lose him. Not to be left alone""Elie witnesses the hanging of a small boy
To hang a young boy in front of thousands of spectators was no light matter."Elie got a number tattooed onto his arm: A-7713.Elie and his father choose to be evacuated along side with the rest of the prisonersThey are being sent to Buchenwald.Elies father dies.Liberation by the Americans
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