Response 3

Dear Elie Weisel,
 

  While reading the part three of your novel from pages 85 to 120,  I felt astonished that you were able to survive the journey from Buna to Buchenwald. Also, I was stunned when you said " These words of

encouragement, even coming from our assassins, were of great help"(92). If I were in that position I would still be mad at the Nazis, because they were the ones that told me to run in the first place. In

addition I would have given up since I would be running to jail, not away from it. This contradicted my views of the world because it is not human to be driven like cattle by the SS. I would not want to be

treated like an animal.
     While I was reading, I wondered why you put in "They had orders to shoot anyone who could not

sustain the pace. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure"(85). Did you add the quote to the memoir to show that many people died on the way to Buhenwald, or did you

want to emphasize how brainwashed the Nazi soldiers were during the holocaust? I then wondered how many Jewish people were killed by the SS. I did some research and found this website Number of Jews 

that died.

                         Alexander Ho