Night: Section 3 summary

This section contains very graphic details. It is in this section that the illusions of a "work camp" come to an abrupt end for the Jews coming off the trains. "Men to the left! Women to the right!" begins the ordeal that separates Elie from his mother ans sister forever.

Elie and his father lie about their ages in order to "pass inspection." For the first time, Elie becomes angry with God for allowing them to be in such a horrible place. Elie and the others in his line begin to move toward what they think will be their own cremation and begin the solemn prayer of Kaddish. Elie realises that the Nazis are throwing babies and children into the fiery pits and says, "Never shall I forget those moments which murderered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust."

Elie and his father do not enter the crematorium but are initiated instead into the hostile and meager existence of the concentration camp.