Question

Describe the thought that creeps into Eliezer's mind and causes him to feel

Answer 1

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Explanation:

At Buchenwald, Eliezer and his father go to take a hot shower. But there are so many prisoners crowding around the baths that his father goes to lie down in some snow. He says he’s tired and Eliezer can wake him when it’s their turn.

Eliezer refuses to let his father sit down and rest because he sees the ground covered in corpses who tried to do just what his dad wants—to rest and give in to death.

They are sent to the barracks to sleep. When Eliezer wakes up, he realizes he lost his dad in the confusion to enter the blocks.

Momentarily Eliezer wishes that his father would die so Eliezer would only have to look over himself (this is just like Rabbi Eliahu’s son), but he immediately feels ashamed.

Eliezer searches for his father for hours but can’t find him. He prays for a minute: "Don’t let me find him." Then he feels guilty.

At last Eliezer finds his father at the block where they are giving out coffee. He’s burning with fever and he just wants a drop of coffee. He’s calling out his son’s name.