![]() ![]() He is unable to forget the cadaverous face that stares back at him. After two weeks of serious illness, he recovers enough to look at himself in the mirror for the first time since he left Sighet. Three days after liberation, Elie contracts food poisoning. Some young men venture into Weimar for potatoes, clothes, and sexual comfort with local girls. The prisoners, distracted from revenge by starvation, relieve their hunger with rations of bread. Fleeing SS officers abandon the camp to the rebels. The children lie on the ground while gunfire and grenades explode above them. The next morning, the resistance exerts pressure on their captors. Inmates sustain life by eating grass and discarded potato peelings foraged from the ground. No food is distributed to the twenty thousand remaining deportees for the next five days.Īn alert sounds on April 10, when the camp officials plan to discharge 20,000 prisoners and blow up the buildings. At the rate of thousands per day, the camp is systematically emptied of inmates. On April 5, an organized camp resistance refuses the Germans' orders to assemble Elie joins others in returning to the block. Rumors arise that the Germans plan a mass annihilation. Only the thought of food permeates his numbness. Desensitized to external stimulus, he joins the six hundred inmates of the children's block and lives in suspended animation as the front draws near Buchenwald. Overcome by trauma, Elie's grief-laden spirit lies beyond pain. ![]()
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