Before leaving for the camps,watches many of his acquaintances being led into the
ghetto for a type of forced imprisonment. He notes:
They
passed me by, like beaten dogs, with never a glance in my
direction.
This comparison shows both the humiliation and
the desperate position of these people. He notes the Chief Rabbi in the group, and even he is
powerless against these forces. They are utterly defeated as they are led away from their homes
with only tiny bundles of their lives to take with them.
Later, Wiesel finds
himself on a train en route to a concentration camp. An officer announces,
"There are eighty of you in the car. If anyone goes missing,
you will all be shot, like dogs."
This next reference to dogs shows that the Germans don't consider
their prisoners humans. And, in fact, they are not treated as such. The Germans don't allow them
any water, force them to hand over any valuable possessions at threat of being shot if
discovered later, and leave them to suffer in...
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