The first prisoners to beat Elie and the other new prisoners are veteran inmates known as "Kapos," who were assigned by the Nazis to supervise the newer arrivals and maintain order in the camps. These Kapos often abused their power and took out their frustration and cruelty on the new prisoners.
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Idek was the Kapo who beat Elie Wiesel in the warehouse in the book Night. Idel was known for his violent outbursts and unpredictable behavior towards the prisoners.
Idek beats Elie's father in the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel as an act of cruelty and abuse of power. Idek, who is a Kapo in the concentration camp, frequently lashes out at prisoners to assert his authority and relieve his own frustrations. The violence illustrates the dehumanizing conditions and brutal treatment that prisoners faced in the camp.
Prisoners were forced to run 42 miles in one night during a blizzard.
In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, Buna is a labor camp within Auschwitz where Elie and his father are sent. While at Buna, Elie and the other prisoners suffer extreme hardships, including starvation, harsh working conditions, and cruelty at the hands of the Nazis. Elie witnesses the dehumanization of the prisoners and struggles to maintain his own humanity in the face of such brutality.
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Elie was whipped in the concentration camp by a Kapo (a prisoner assigned by the Nazis to supervise other prisoners) for witnessing him committing a sexual act with a young girl. The Kapo whipped Elie to ensure his silence and prevent him from reporting the incident.
He is sent to the dentist but tells him that he is ill, for the first two visits, so that he does not have his gold crown removed. The dentist is later arrested and he keeps his crown until it is later confiscated for nothing in return.
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what was the life span of prisoners not sentenced to die in the gas chambers? (from the book night), by Elie Wiesel.
The Kaddish is a Jewish prayer recited to praise God. Elie asked his father to recite it with him while they were in the concentration camp as a way to commemorate the death of fellow prisoners and maintain a sense of connection to their faith and heritage amidst the suffering.
The Holocaust camps differed in the ways they treated prisoners after they passed the selection that degrades and dehumanizes them. Sometimes the prisoners were forced to do hard labor and other times they were killed.