... were stacked on the grill and set on fire. A more efficient method of dealing with the bodies of recently murdered prisoners was needed. In August 1942, work began at Auschwitz-Birkenau on crematoria equipped with large ovens and tall chimneys. Eventually, five crematoria were built capable of killing sixteen thousand bodies a day. The entire killing-cremation process as it ... eventually was developed in Auschwitz was a model of efficiency. Victims descended a staircase into underground changing rooms adjacent to the gas chambers. Bodies were removed through doors on the far side of th...

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... faith, Wiesel questions his faith in God in ways that most Jews would never consider. "Why, but why should I bless Him [God]? Because in His great might He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?- (Wiesel 64). Wiesel spends most of his time thinking about God. He questions whether or not God exists. Wiesel accuses God for ... ...

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