![]() ![]() A few more days and all of us would have started to scream.Įliezer narrates that all the Jews are piled up in a train where a lady, Madame Schachter, starts screaming. Yet all that was nothing compared to her screams, which tore us apart. The heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocating us. ![]() ![]() His father Shlomo says that this is not a deadly sign as it is only a yellow star. Perhaps it was because he did not want to worry others about the yellow signs asked by the Germans that the Jews should display. The narrator, Eliezer, is stating that his father was not depressed at all. My father’s view was that it was not all bleak, or perhaps he just did not want to discourage the others, to throw salt on their wounds: “The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal…” Moishe then meets Eliezer and repeats his warning. There is a first-order from the German that Jews cannot leave their homes or face the death penalty. Moishe the Beadle meets Eliezer and tells him that he had already warned the people of Sighet that they would be killed. Moishe the Beadle came running to our house. First edict: Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days, under penalty of death. He tells him that a question has its own power. Then when he cannot find answers, Moishe the Beadle tells him the importance of asking a question and finding its answer. At this stage, these questions seem strange. He even questions himself why he prays, and why he lives. He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer…Įliezer speaks about his religious knowledge. “I don’t know.” From that day on, I saw him often. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? “I don’t know,” I told him, even more troubled and ill at ease. ![]()
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