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BackgroundDespite warnings about Germans capturing Jews, Elie’s family and the other Jews in the small town of Sighet, Transylvania, decide not to flee the country when they have the chance. Because of their choice to stay, they and the other Jews are sent to concentration camps. They were brought to the camp called Auschwitz, Elie is separated from his mother and younger sister, but stays with his father.
As Elie struggles to survive against starvation and beatings, he also struggles with his faith in God. Elie feels a conflict between supporting his weakening father and giving himself the best chance of survival. Over the course of the book, Elie and his father are sent from Auschwitz to a new concentration camp called Buna and then, as the Allies approach, deeper into Germany, to Buchenwald. A few months before the concentration camps are liberated by Allied soldiers, Elie’s father dies. Though Elie survives the concentration camps, he is haunted by the death and violence he has witnessed. |
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Connections
- Prejudice against the Jewish
- Disappearance of Shylock's daughter and Elie's father