topics.

religion:

• "I pray to God within me to ask the real questions" p. 5


• I continues to devote myself to me studies. p. 8


• I was not denying His existence, bit I doubted His absolue justice. p. 45


• p. 3 see sheet


• p. 20 see sheet


• p. 33 see sheet


• p. 37"The student of Talmud, the child I was, was consumed by the flames
• For God's sake, where is God.
• "where is merciful God? where is he?" p 61
• p 66 where are you my god?
• p 67 why would i bless him?
• p 77 say Kaddish for me
• p 77 If only he could have kept his faith.

Silence

• p 39 My father had just been struck in front of me. I watched and kept silent.


• p 26 Her son was clinging to her, not uttering a word.


• p 37 Nobody dared raise his voice even though there was no guard around, we still whispered.


• p. 33


• p. 34 Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence.


• p. 14 Again, heavy silence
• p 71 "Tibby was silent and very pale."
• p 71 "Let's have a moment of quiet."
• p 81'"They had diffuculty opening their mouths. All they could utter was a moment of evacuation."
• p89 "Not a sound of distress, nothing but mass agony and silence."
• p 94 "A silent death, suffication, no way to scream or call for help."
• p 95 "Never before had I heard such a beautiful sound in such silence."
• p 104 "I was so weary, that the silence left me indifferent."
• p 111 All around me there was silence now.

Inhumanity

• 
  p. 6 They were forced to dig huge trenches. Infants were tossed in the air.
• p. 37 In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men.
• p. 31 You will be burned , burned to a cinder, turned to ashes.
• p. 24 there were 80 of you in the car. If any of you go missing, you will be shot like dogs.
• p 49 You You You, They pointed there fingers the way one might choose cattle or merchandise.
• p53 He threw himself on me like a wild beast
• p 54 he seemed to break in two like and old tree struck by lightning
• p 54 and began beating him with an iron bar
• p 97 the SS shoved us in, 100 per car.
• p 96 a thick layer of snow was accumulating on our blankets
• pg 101 in the wagon where the bread had landed

Father/Son relationship

• p 32 were to he t have gone to the right, I would have run after him
• p 44 My father told me, you musn't eat that all at once.
• p48 I want to stay with my father.
• p 54 he began beating him with the iron bar....i kept silent
• p 39 My father had just been struck in front of me and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent.
• p. 19 My father was crying, it was the first time i saw him cry.
• p 50 Frank the foreman...please sir, I would like to stay near my father.
• p 35 My head was buzzing...not to be seperated from my father.
• p 54 He began beating him with an iron bar and I felt angry.
• p 112 free at last
• p89 come father lets go back to the shed. we'll take turns, we won't let each other fall asleep.
• p 99 I awoke from apathy. Father, father, wake up.
• p 108 for a ration of bread i was able to exchange cots to be next to my father
• p 104 I tightened my grip on my father's hand. the old familiar fear not to lose him.
• p 113 since my father's death, nothing mattered.
• p 91 He had already gone through the door when I remembered that I had noticed his son running beside me.
• p 105 and I grabbed his arm and continued to moan.