Chapter Seven

In chapter 7, the prisoners are crammed together in the train car. Then the train stops and the SS officers make the prisoners throw the dead bodies off the train.  Elie’s father, who looks like hes dead, is almost thrown out, but Elie manages to revive him in time. There is no food, but there is snow. They travel for ten days, sometimes going through German villages. A German worker by the train tracks throws some bread into the train car, and watches as the men fight each other for the bread. One boy kills his own father for a piece of bread. The German workers are amused, so they start tossing more bread into the train. At night, somebody tries to strangle Elie, but the man in charge of the wagon, who who is a friend of Elie's dad, Meir Katz, manages to save him.

 On the last day of this journey, an icy wind blows through, it seems like nobody can possibly survive, and when somebody cries out as they die, everybody starts to cry. The train finally arrives at Buchenwald, one hundred prisoners had gotten on the train, and only a dozen prisoners get off, including Elie and his father. This chapter shows how desperate the Jews really got after all they had to go through, it also shows the horrible suffering the Jews had to go through.

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