Chapter 3

This chapter starts right when everyone arrives to the concentration camp and SS man orders all of the Jews to separate, women to the right men to left. An inmate tells Eli not to tell his real age to the SS officer. The man tells him to say he is eighteen and not fifteen. The man also tells Eli's dad not to tell him he is 50 but tell him he is 40. The SS man seems to treat the people horribly, giving them commands and verbal abusing them. The SS guard yells to them " You will be burned!
Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!" They heard whispers of revolt being muttered through the prisoners voices.

When the SS man asks how old Eli is, Eli listens to the man and says he is 18. The SS man then yells to the group of men that they were heading to the crematorium. Eli saw through his own eyes children being thrown into the crematorium. Eli says he rather die by being electrocuted by the barb wire than be thrown into the crematorium. Eli walks to what he believes is his death. He recites a prayer for the dead that he would only thought he recite for someone else's death, not his own death. He counts the footsteps until his death. A poem from the forward is in this chapter. Eli ended up not dieing in the crematorium. Eli's head is shaved and he is told to put on a outfit for the sole purpose to look like everyone else. An SS officer gave an introduction to the camp he said if you don' work you will be killed. Eli's dad asks were the toilets were. He was then hit by a Gypsy man. Eli was shocked but did not blink. The SS men were armed with machine guns and had dogs

The Jews had to have black coffee and a midday soup everyday. Eli was tatooted a name A-7713. He runs into a guy from his neighborhood names Stein.

The reconditions at the concentration camp are horrible. They men are treated like dirt. People are killed right in front of their eyes. They are given no much to eat and there identity is taken away. The motif 'night" seems to come up, like nightmares. It is horrible that people are recting a prayer for their own death. These are the worst conditions.