camp with a sign to the entrance reading "Work is Liberty!" (Wiesel 38). They were now in Auschwitz. It is here that they were given identification numbers tattooed on their arms. This became their name. Elie had become numb to beatings by now, and had witnessed numerous hangings. Elie's father begins to get weaker, yet Elie stands by him, even giving him his rations of food to keep him alive. A few months later they were evacuated because the Russian army was aid to be approaching. So they left camp on a dark snowy night and were forced to run to their next destination over forty miles away. When they reach Gleiwitz, the prisoners are so crowded into their barracks that people are piled on top of each other. After three days, the prisoners are then crammed into cattle wagons, reminding them of their first ride to the concentration camps. Inside the car, men are !
             dying, and Elie is indifferent to life and death.
             When they arrive at Buchenwald, Elie's father is too weak to go on and begs his son to let him sleep. He takes care of his father giving him his own rations of coffee, soup, and bread.
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