Chapter 4

Chapter 4 starts out with Eliezer at a new concentration camp called Buna. They ran into a required medical check. Next they ran into a scan for gold-capped teeth and they were to be removed. He and his father were moved to the same unit, they were assigned to count electrical devices in a civilian warehouse. Soon after Eliezer was summoned to the dentist but faked to be ill and he got out of getting his gold cap pulled. He then went back to the dentist and faked being ill once more. He was planning on going back a third time but the dentist wasn't there. He had been hanged by the Germans for secretly trading the gold caps for his own benefit. The Kapo of Eliezer's unit went on a spontaneous rampage and beats him and a French girl shows little kindness and actually speaks fluent German she said, "Bite your lips, little brother... Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait..." (Wiesel 53) The narrator then sees the same women several years later on a train. then the prison foreman notices the narrators gold tooth, he is forced to give it up and his father is beaten until he does so. There is then an allied air raid on Buna, during which some of the prisoners try to steal items and most are caught and killed. "The thousands  of people who died daily in Aushwitz and Birkenau, in the crematoria, no longer troubled me. But this boy, leaning against his gallows upset me deeply." (Wiesel 62)