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October in 1944

Each man had two results coming out from the selection: either to die or live. They were not able to make up the decision but to just follow their fate. Most of the prisoners weren’t guilty to get killed in the gas chamber. To me, there are no reasonable claims that the Germans had the right to kill the Jews because the matter of death was in the hands of God.

God was in control of the lives of these people if they had trusted in Him. It was foolish for Primo to believe that God didn’t exist among them and that having hope and praying to God had no meaning to life in Auschwitz. I felt very sorry for Primo and the other prisoners to be in that situation where they couldn’t even be thankful for passing the selection because they would have other many chances that they could end up in the gas chambers. If a man was chosen to die, the fear and the knowing that he would have to die wouldn’t even be expressed by words.