In Elie Wiesel's Night, how did Elie survive?

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is an autobiographical story of his experience during the Holocaust. This
small book is book is a favorite among high school teachers and students because of its honest,
straightforward, and stark portrayal of Elies experiences.

As an earlier post
noted, Wiesel attributes his survival of the Holocaust to chance more than anything else.
However, there are several points in his story that suggest that his survival is also due to the
help of others he encountered along the way.

When Elie and his father first
arrive in Auschwitz, they are herded with the other prisoners toward an incinerator. They are
still innocent of the knowledge of their fate, it is too terrible to imagine. On the way, they
encounter other prisoners, veterans, who know what life in the camps is like. At one point in
the story, Elie notes that they are not veterans for nothing; they know how to
survive.

On their first night, as they are marched toward the smokestacks of
the inferno, they encounter...