We must make sure that democracy does not perish.► see thesaurus at die 2 especially British English DAMAGE if rubber or leather perishes, it decays 3 → perish the thought! → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus perish And then I thought maybe it means the end of times.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Death perish per‧ish / ˈperɪʃ / verb 1 formal or literary MX DIE to die, especially in a terrible or sudden way Hundreds perished when the ship went down. I was thinking that maybe it's the end of history, and I thought maybe it's the end of Jewish history. "And we didn't listen," Professor Wiesel says. And what did they achieve? Death and more death. "Every step was programmed," Professor Wiesel says. The building now lies in ruins-destroyed by the Nazis on the eve of liberation, in a vain attempt to hide the evidence of their atrocities. It is likely that his mother and younger sister, Tzipora, were murdered inside. Professor Wiesel and Oprah walk to the site of crematorium number three. Forced into this horrific job, they temporarily evaded their own death. The grisly task of burning the dead bodies in underground ovens was left to Jewish prisoners. Proud of their efficiency, SS officers witnessed the gassing as it happened through special peepholes. Death took about 15 minutes to come and felt like suffocation. As the toxic pellets mixed with air, cyanide gas was released. Canisters of the deadly chemical Zyklon B were dropped in. Those selected to die were told they were getting showers, then packed into the chambers by the thousands. All others were sent immediately and unknowingly down the path to Auschwitz's four gas chambers. Those deemed capable of hard labor, like 15-year-old Elie Wiesel and his father, went into the work camp. The systematic process of determining who would live and who would die was known as "selection." SS officers briefly sized up each new arrival. And then I thought maybe it means the end of times."
24–25) Days later, as young Elie Wiesel stepped off the cattle car at the Auschwitz subcamp Birkenau, also known as Auschwitz II, he smelled the stench of burning human flesh and saw the crematorium throwing its flames into the sky.
Later, her sobs and screams became hysterical. On the first day of our journey, she had already begun to moan. There was a woman among us, a certain Mrs. In Night, Professor Wiesel remembers his own journey. Up to 100 people were packed into a single car, with no food, no water, no toilet and little air. "It is right here, on this railroad track, leading into the camp," she says, "that a young teenage boy arrived in a cattle car with his family, friends and neighbors." At the entrance to Auschwitz, Oprah stands in the spot Elie Wiesel began his dark journey into Night.
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