Journal Entery

Date: 1 January 2008

ENtery Number: 8

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 78

Elie and his father should have stayed in the hospital as sick people. They would have finally been freed from concentration life. They did not know this at the time but they should have stayed and if they were worried that the SS and others were going to kill the sick, they could have hidden. Or they could have stayed in the hospital till almost everyone was evacuated and then escaped into one of the blocks that had already been evacuated. After the war Elie found out what had happened to those that had stayed in the hospital. "They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation." In the hospital, Elie met this really doubtful guy that told him that Hitler was going to kill all the Jews by midnight and that the Russian army would not save them. So Elie made his decision partially based on fear and doubt and was evacuated with all the rest not to be liberated till much later. He was so stupid for believing that guy. That same guy believed Hitler was the only true prophet because he had kept his word so far which is completely insane. Elie should have stuck with his hospital plan and he and his father would have been liberated.