In Night by Elie Wiesel, Zalman is suddenly seized with stomach cramps. The prisoners had been evacuated because the Allied Army was closing in on Buna. They started out marching in the freezing weather, but soon the Nazis were making them run. If someone could not keep up the pace, the Nazi guards shot him on the spot. Zalman had worked with Elie at the electrical warehouse when they were still in Buna. As they...
In Night by Elie Wiesel, Zalman is suddenly seized with stomach cramps. The prisoners had been evacuated because the Allied Army was closing in on Buna. They started out marching in the freezing weather, but soon the Nazis were making them run. If someone could not keep up the pace, the Nazi guards shot him on the spot. Zalman had worked with Elie at the electrical warehouse when they were still in Buna. As they were running, Zalman's stomach began to hurt badly, and he had to go to the bathroom, but of course there was nowhere to go. Elie tried to convince him to keep going--that they would be stopping soon if Zalman could just hold on a little longer. Zalman could not, so he lowered his pants to relieve himself, and that was the last Elie ever saw of him.
"That is the last picture I have of him. I do not think it can have been the SS who finished him, because no one had noticed. He must have been trampled to death beneath the feet of the thousands of men who followed us" (Wiesel 82).
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