Night: Section 7

Inside the train bodies, both dead and alive, are tangled up in each other. Eli feels indifferent to everything. Eli's father does not respond to his call and seems dead. When the train stops SS officers order that corpses be thrown out of the car. Two men begin to throw Eliezer's father out of the train, but Eliezer revives him by slapping him viciously and screaming desperately in his face. Twenty bodies are thrown out of the wagon. The prisoners travel for ten days, eating only snow.
Once, some German workmen begin throwing bread into the car and stand around watching as the prisoners tear each other to death for scraps. Eli resolves not to fight for the food and notices one man who kills his own father for a piece of bread. Then the son is killed for the same bread and both father and son lie dead side by side. Eli notes at this point in the narrative that he is fifteen years old.
On the third night of the journey Eli is awakened when someone randomly tries to strangle him. He calls his father at the last minute and is saved by a man named Meir Katz, who had been a gardener at the Buna camp. However, a few days later Meir Katz begins to cry, having finally lost his will to live.
On the last day of the journey, there is a bitter wind, and everyone gets up in order to try to keep warm. All the prisoners begin imitating the death cry of a fellow prisoner, and Meir Katz wonders out loud why the SS guards don't just shoot them all right away. Finally, they reach the camp, and only twelve people have the strength to leave the wagon. The others, including Meir Katz, remain on the train to die. They are at Buchenwald.