She’s gone mad! Shut her up! She’s not the only one. She can keep her mouth shut.” A few days more, everybody was screaming until they entered Auschwitz, all people could see was jumping flames. Everywhere they looked they had seen flames, then they arrived at Birkenau,( the reception center for Auschwitz). Once they got out of the wagon, the SS men was separating the men by their age. One prisoner came to Elie and said, “ Here, kid, how old are you?” Then Elie said,” I’m not quite fifteen yet.” The prisoner said, “No. Eighteen”. Then Elie said, “But I’m not Fifteen.” Then with the prisoner’s tense and weary voice he said, “ Fool. Listen to what I say.” Then the prisoner asked the same question to Eile’s father which replied, “ Fifty”. Somehow the other grew more furious than ever and said, “No, not fifty. Forty.” Then out of nowhere, he disappeared into the