How many got out of the wagon night

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Chapter 2. Chapter 3. When somebody cries out as they die, everybody begins to wail. It would be more merciful. The train at last arrives at Buchenwald. A hundred prisoners had gotten on the train—only a dozen get off. Eliezer and his father are among that dozen. Tired of ads? Finally, she is tied up and gagged so that she cannot scream. Her child, sitting next to her, watches and cries. The prisoners on the train find out, when the train eventually stops, that they have reached Auschwitz station.

This name means nothing to them, and they bribe some locals to get news. They are told that they have arrived at a labor camp where they will be treated well and kept together as families. This news comes as a relief, and the prisoners let themselves believe, again, that all will be well. The train moves slowly and at midnight passes into an area enclosed by barbed wire. Through the windows, everybody sees the chimneys of vast furnaces.

There is a terrible, but undefined, odor in the air—what they soon discover is the odor of burning human flesh. He finally gains some breathing room, and, calling out, discovers that his father is near. Eliezer falls asleep to this music, and when he wakes he finds Juliek dead, his violin smashed. After three days without bread and water, there is another selection. In the confusion that follows, both Eliezer and his father are able to sneak back over to the other side.

The prisoners are taken to a field, where a train of roofless cattle cars comes to pick them up. The prisoners are herded into the cattle cars and ordered to throw out the bodies of the dead men. The train travels for ten days and nights, and the Jews go unfed, living on snow. As they pass through German towns, some of the locals throw bread into the car in order to enjoy watching the Jews kill each other for the food. Eliezer then flashes forward to an experience he has after the Holocaust, when he sees a rich Parisian tourist in Aden a city in Yemen throwing coins to native boys.

Eliezer then returns to his narration of the German townspeople throwing bread on the train.