Date: 13 December 2007
Entery Number: 4
Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 38-39
In the concentration camps there were many cruel men and SS members but luckily for Eliezer the prisoner who was in charge of his block was semi-nice. "Comrades, you're in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation..." and he goes on. With so much cruelity and harshness all around, I bet is was nice to have someone to give them words of strength and courage. These first real human words and a good nights rest greatly improved the Jew's morale of Elie's block and that day was not as hard to bare as the day before had been. Nice "leaders" were probably hard to come by so Elie was pretty lucky.
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