r undergoes an operation for a foot injury. While he is in the infirmary, however, the Nazis decide to evacuate the camp because the Russians are advancing and are on the verge of liberating Buna. In the middle of a snowstorm, the prisoners begin a death march to another concentration camp, Gleiwitz. Many die of exposure and exhaustion during the 50 mile run. At Gleiwitz, the prisoners are herded into cattle cars once again. There is another deadly journey: 100 Jews board the car, but only twelve remain alive by trip’s end. Throughout the ordeal, Eliezer and his father kept each other alive through mutual concern. Yet noe, in Buchenwald, Eliezer’s father dies from suffacation amid thousands of dieing bodies. Eliezer survives, an empty shell of a man until April 11, 1945, when the American army liberates the camp.Dawn, though with a different character, is mainly a continuation of Night except it takes place after the war. Held in Palestine, the main character Elisha is a member of a terrorist group referred to as the “movement.” He was recruited into the movement by a man named Gad when he was living in Paris. He moved to Paris after being liberated from a concentration camp in Buchenwald. In Paris he was planning to study philosophy in hopes of understanding the meaning of events that held him victim during the war. Yet, he agrees to follow Gad to Paris out of his interest and lack of a better life.Elisha has been involved in numerous terrorist acts, but nothing like the one he is about to commit.After, the English have been after the terrorist group for quite some time, they managed to arrest two members during a terrorist operation. One was immediately hanged, the other remaining hostage. Outradged the leader of “the movement” named the “Old Man” called for the execution of a English officer if the English did go through with hanging the other terrorist. They took the English Captain Jo...
