7. death or survival
Quote: "The train stopped in an empty field. The abrupt halt had awakened a few sleepers. They stood looking around startled.
Outside, the SS walked by, shouting:
'Throw out all the dead! Outside all the corpses!'" (Wiesel, 99)
I chose this quote because this quote depicts that, when the SS came to check on the Jews and throw away all the dead bodies,
some of them were lucky that they were awake when the SS came. Therefore, their body wasn't thrown out. But the SS threw away most of the bodies.
It was whether death or survival.
I chose 'Death or Survival' to be the name of the chapter because when the SS checked on the Jews (didn't matter if they were sleeping), they would throw them out. Therefore, they had to be awake for the SS not to throw them out.
This picture depicts how the Jews were dressed during winter. They had all become so lean that they could fit 100 Jews in one cattle car. They were evacuating all the Jews during Winter. Hence I chose this picture.