because the war was coming
It's ironic that 2 days after elie left the camp the Russians liberated everyone who stayed behind.
During the air raid in the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, the prisoners were evacuated from the camp and forced to undertake a long and difficult march to another camp. Many prisoners died during this chaotic and traumatic evacuation process, and those who survived faced even harsher conditions in the new camp.
Buchenwald was a concentration camp.
In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, the last thing the head of the block ordered the men to do before evacuating was to clean the block and leave it spotless. This was a cruel irony, as it was clear that the men were being moved to a concentration camp with little concern for their well-being.
1944.
buna
The motto of the camp in the book "Night" was "Arbeit macht frei," which translates to "work sets you free." This phrase was displayed at the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps as a cruel and deceptive message to the prisoners.
it is a death camp meant to be used to exterminate the Jew's.
they meet as a group to pray
They go from Auschwitz to Buna to Gleiwitz.
The prisoners in the book Night finally stopped their march at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
The camp (Buna aka Monowitz or Auschwitz III) was bombed by the USAAF because it was a chemicals plant.