After the German forces invaded the small Transylvanian town of Sighet, they started imposing restrictions on the Jewish people in this town. They also set up town Ghettos. All the Jews in this town were forced to leave everything behind, and to live within these few city blocks. Instead of the Jews feeling that there lives were over, they actually felt good about living there. They though of it as a little Jewish Republic. They appointed Jewish Council, a Jewish police, a office for social assistance, a labor committee, a hygiene department, and a whole government machinery. A lot of the Jews figured that they would remain in this ghetto until the war was over. Well they were wrong. A couple of days later, all the Jews were moved out the Ghett

After the Red Army came within firing range of Auschwitz, the SS moved all the prisoners. After running for hours “Wee were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything-Death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die”(83). They did not care what was going on as long as they kept on living. They forgot about the snow, the cold, hungry, and their bodies telling them to die. All they thought about were their feet moving and the endless road ahead of them. No matter what was going on, they were never going to give up. At the end when Eliezer’s father was on his death bed, his father begged him for some water. “I brought him some water. Then I left the block for roll call. But I turned around and came back again. I lay down on the top bunk. Invalids were allowed to stay in the block. So I would be a invalid myself. I would not leave my father”(105). He is not going to leave his father. He feels that if he leaves him now, he might give up on life, and he might not be there when he returned. He wants to stay till the end so he can keep his father going. No matter what all these Jewish pe

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