He keeps telling the dentist that he’s sick and puts off the tooth removal. At last, the dentist is punished because he’s been pocketing some of the gold crowns. One day, Idek (the crazy Kapo) gets angry and beats Eliezer.Īt the warehouse, Eliezer works near a young French girl who seems to him to be Jewish although she passes herself off as Aryan.Eliezer’s tooth is, for the moment, safe. Many years later, Eliezer sees the French girl (now a woman) on a train in Paris.The French girl is kind to him and gives him a little bit of bread. Back in Buna in 1944, Idek goes crazy again and beats Eliezer’s dad this time.She remembers him too, and he discovers that she is indeed from a religious Jewish family but she managed to hide her identity to keep herself alive. Franek, the foreman, decides he wants Eliezer’s gold crown.Eliezer reflects on how inhumane the concentration camps made him as his father is being beaten, rather than being mad at Idek, Eliezer is mad at his father for not avoiding the Kapo. Eliezer goes exploring and discovers why Idek didn’t want anyone in the camp: he’s sleeping with this young Polish girl.Idek marches them to work one Sunday (when working isn’t required) and leaves them in Franek’s care, saying he doesn’t care what they do he just doesn’t want them in the camp.At last, Eliezer gives in and his tooth is extracted with a rusty spoon in the bathroom.Franek begins to torment Eliezer’s father during their marches.But, Franek discovers Eliezer’s weakness-his father. Idek discovers Eliezer and gets angry.Eliezer laughs, thinking about the absurdity of moving 100 prisoners to the warehouse just so he can get laid. Some Sunday (time seems to blend) there’s an air raid.He gives Eliezer 25 lashes with the whip in front of the whole block and tells him he’ll get five times that if he tells anyone what he saw. The SS officers take cover, while the prisoners remain in their bunks.
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