Elie tell us about how when he was moved to Auschwitz they tattooed a number onto his forearm. Elie's number was A-7713 and only was known as that from then on, even later on his life if someone said that number, he would answer to it. The SS had already done so many horrific things at this point in time and the survivors of those things still had to witness those things and it changed them forver. For people like Elie, they may have survived physically but they would never be entally/emotionally the same or okay ever again. Like Elie lots probably started to question God and if he really exists. Most o f the Jewish women who were captured has been killed, except for rare instances. Anyone who was in a camp and started to not do their work, they would be sent straight to a crematory. These absolutley terrible things happneing quivkly and in large ways left a dent in history and the Nazis treid to cover it up but the Holocaust now is learned abut it almost every school.
The Nazis giving the remaining Jews numbers to go by dehumanizes them even further, instead of a name attached to the person it is just a number, a simple number. This in a way helps the S.S. and Nazis rationalize what they were doing, it didn't mean as much because they were only a number. One night in a concentration camp and seeing all the things that Elie did, would change anyone. When Elie saw his own father get slapped to the ground just for asking where the bathroom was, and he didn't even flinch, he was scared. The day before he would've fought back and would let his father get pushed around right in front of him. He had only been there a shot ammount of time but was already scared to fight for himself and stand up to anyone, he was just instincvily trying to survive just himself.
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