Night: Section 6

The section begins with the all the prisoners on a run. The SS shoot all of those prisoners that cannot keep up and fall behind. Eli keeps himself motivated to run, by the thought of his father. When they come to a deserted village for a rest stop, Eli father takes Eli to ruined brick factory and keeps him awake, so he wouldn't suffer from being frozen. A rabbi comes into the factory to search for his son, eli doesn't tell the kind man that his son tried to save himself by outrunning his parent. At the thought of this Eli is disturbed and he prays that he will never do that to his father.

The next day even the SS are getting tired of this fight against the cold and snow. When the arrive at Gleiwitz, Kapos assigns the prisoners to brracks. In the mist of things Eli is almost crush by the marauding horde of people rushing into it. Yet, he see his friend Juliek, who is carrying a violin with him. Juliek plays a part of Beethovens concerto, but the next morning sadly Juliek lay dead next to his crushed violin.

For 3 days the prisoners are given no food or water, but at the dawn of the 3rd day Eli rushes to get his father from one of the SS selections. Not long after the prisoners are marched to the rail lines and are given a little piece of bread. The SS solidiers laugh at the prisoners when they eat the snow to quench their thirst. Later in the day, a train arrives with roofless cattle wagons. The SS take the prisoners and pack a 100 of them into each of the cars.

Night: Section 5

The section starts off with the arrival of the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah, which celebrates the coming of the new year, and Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement. Even though they are imprisioned the Jews of Buna come together and celebrate, but Eli's religious beliefs have seemed to have dissappeared. He connot fund a good enough reason to bless God in the presence of all this suffering. He later mocks the Jewish peoples idea of them being God's chosen people and that same God deciding to massacre all these people. Finally he comes to the decision that man has a stronger will than God. Feeling alone in the crowd Eli finds comfort in his fathers face because he sees a great dispair of his dads face. So on Yom Kippur, a day which Jews traditionally fast, he decided to eat.

Soon after the holiday is over another round of selections is made and Eli is separated from his father to work in the building unti. Yet he worries greatly about his father, whom he doesnt know will pass the selection. Days later he finds out his father did not pass the selection and he will executed. Eli's father comes to him a gives him his knife and spoon, Eli's only inheiritance. Thinking that he will never see him again, Eli is overjoyed when he see that there was another selection and his father had survived, but their friend Akiba Drumer isnt so lucky and looses faith and he later dies. Eli confides in a Rabbi and tells him that he can no longer believe in God because of what he has seen at these camps.

Winter comes along, but for Eli this isnt good, His foot begins to sweel and he goes into operation for it. While recovering a rumor of the Russion army gives the prisoners new hope. The Germans catch wind of the rumor and decide to evacuate the camps before the Russians arrive. Eli and his father make a fatal mistake of leaving the infirmary because they think the would be put to death, but they later learn that all those that stayed in the infirmary were freed days later by the russians.

Night: Section 4

When we last left of Eli and his dad they were going in to be inspected by the Nazi's to make sure they were clean and tidy. Going through inspection Eli is chosen by a Kapo to serve in this unit that counts the eletrical fittings for the civilian warehouse, luckily his father turns out to serve in the same exact unit. ELi and his father are housed in the "musicians block" were he meets a fellow named Juliek and his two brothers.
Eli is summoned to a dentist to get his gold corwn removed but says that he is sick and has the procedure delayed. It turns out that the dentist was making shady deals and tradeing off the gold teeth, but he is found out and is hanged for it. Eli would be sorry for the man but other problems arise for young eli. Idek, the man in charge of Eli's group, randomly beats Eli because of a french girl who offers Eli a small act of kindness and comfort. Then Eli's dad becomes a victim of Idek's rampages, and Eli becomes mad at him for his inability to dodge his attacks.
Then the prison foreman, Franek, notices that Eli still has his gold crown and he must have it. The only problem is that Franek has a lust for gold and it makes him vicious, mean, and cruel. Eli's dad tells him to not give him the tooth, but Franek takes his dad and beats him until Eli gives in. Not long after this incident Eli's group is moved to another camp, but Eli makes a accidental mistake and see's Idek having sex, so his punishment Eli is whipped until he finally looses consciousness.
The story then goes on to explain numerous accounts of people during air raids attempting to steal something. On one account a man tries to go to the unattended soup pot and get something to eat but as he nears the soup and is about to take a bite to eat he is shot in the back. After all these stories are told it goes to Eli and him questioning God yet again.

Night: Section 3

Now when we last left off the Jews were being taken to Birkenau, when they arrived there they found that some of the weaker individuals are going to be weeded out to be killed, Yet Eli and his dad remain together at this point. Sadly Eli's mother and younger sister are never seen again by Eli and his dad. As the weeding out is taking place, a prisoner tells them to lie about their age saying that Eli, who is almost 15, to say he is 18 and his dad, who is 50, to say he is 40. When the head officer asks him he takes the advice saying he is 18 and that he is a farmsmen. His dad takes the advice also and thankfully they are motioned in the same direction and are still together.
Traveling through the camp the find several huge pits full of adults, children, and babies all being burned. Eli and many other cant accept how people can be doing this, but someone in the group starts saying a prayer, called the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, yet Eli begins to question God and asking what to thank God for. When Eli and his dads group are near the edge of a empty pit they are the switched to move into the barracks. The barracks was a really nice place, while in there the Jews were stripped of their clothes, heads were shaved, disinfected with gasoline, showered, and clothed in prison uniforms.
Coming out of the barracks they were given two options: very hard work or death. Eli and his dad chose hard work and are marched to Auschwitz, where they are quartered for three weeks. They then recieve their prison number tattooed on their arms. While there Eli meets a distant relative from a neighboring town. His name is Stein and he tells them new of his family. In return ELi tries to comfort him by saying that his family is alive and well, but he soon fines this out to be a lie.