Elie opens this chapter with a devastating recount of what happened to his friend and confidant, Moshe. Hungarians shipped out foreign Jews from Sighet, including Moshe, to the border of Poland. Once at the border, the Jews were handed over to the Germans to be killed and buried in mass graves.
Marullus points out that if the Commoner is a carpenter, as he reports in line 6, he should not be out on the streets.
