A Picture is Worth 55 Words

I finally found my long lost money under the sofa,

So I went to the mall and got some things,

Earings, clothes, I've found what I wanted.

I Haven't missed breakfast during this week,

I felt great in the morning,

I did not fall asleep

In any class today,

My eyes finally

Fully opened

AWAKE!

“The Last Word of the Invalid”

I choose the title "The Last Word of the Invalid", because it really connects to the important, yet sad happening in this chapter of the memoir. My title works for this chapter because it gives the reader an insight to what might happen. Usually a reader thinks of a death when they see the "Last word”. And that is exactly how the title I have given to my chapter gives an insight to the events about to be known.

Eliezer and his father have finally reached at their final destination, but Eliezer’s father is terribly ill, and the chances of survival are the minimum. Eliezer knows that his father can no longer go on, but he still battles with his conscience in order to not abandon his father. With this Elie’s father seems to be constantly abused by his neighbors making him grow even weaker day by day. One day right after roll call Eliezer decides to stay with his father as an “invalid”, and his father keeps calling his name for water due to his high fever. Because of this Elie’s father receives a blow from the officer but he still continues to call Elie’s name, “His last word was my name” (Wiesel 106).After Elie’s father’s death in the crematory Elie says “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears” (Wiesel 106), this quote means that Elie was overwhelmed with sadness to a point where he wanted to burst into tears but he did not have any strength left for doing so, which caused him even more pain. This quote links to the title “The Last Word of the Invalid”, because the last word of the invalid was the last word of Elie’s father, and the last word was the last thing Elie ever heard of his father, and the last word was only the beginning of Elie’s sorrow to the death of his father.

"Found Poem"

Let the world learn (29)

A-7713(39) I had no other name (39)
The (37) Angel of Death(31) entered my soul and devoured it (34)
Ten gypsies (37) indifferent to (25) Humanity (30) with(36) whips and truncheons(37)
Came to find you (40)
You (40) were (37) struck (37) flesh and bone (36)
Mockery: (37) you're going to the crematory (30) that's your grave (28)
The sun was setting in (37)the(8) unimaginable nightmare(28) Hell (38)
My heart (30) from (31) the depths of (31) the (31) universe(31) whisper (31) His name (31).

Here are questions I would like to ask to the survivors of the Holocaust:

1.Did it ever come to mind that you would rather be gassed than to survive through the misery you experienced in the labor camps?
2. Did liberty seem real?

Auschwitz sign stolen by 'neo-Nazis'

The famous 'Arbeit macht frei', Work Sets You Free sign was stolen by 'neo nazis'. The ones responsable for the act of theft were still not found, and person that has any clue leading to those criminals will be recompensed. Those criminals seem that they did not steal the sign for its "scrap value" but to demostrate Anti-Semitism to the Jews.

I agree with the fact that 'Anti-Semitism' is most likely to be involved with the case, because the act of stealing such a memorable sign, a solid evidence that told the world what happened in Auchwitz, is like erasing a gigantic chunk of horrible memories that must be remebered so it could ever repeat itself.