Father Son Relationship
" I decided to give my father lessons in marching in step, in keeping time" Page 55. " Still I was happy, I was near my father" Page 32. " I ran to look for my father. At the same time I was afraid of wishing him a happy year in which I no longer believed. I went to him, took his hand and kissed it" Page 68. " A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father? He had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this seperation to free himself a burden that could diminsih his own chance for survival" Page 91. " Everyday my father was getting weaker. His eyes were watery, his face the color of dead leaves. On the third day after we arrived in Buchenwald, everybody had to go to the showers. Even the sick" Page 107.