In the beginning of the chapter, the narrator felt astounted after
passing through the barbers ,desinfectation baths and changing clothes
to prisoner uniform. Now he was inside Aushcwitz concentration camp,
he tell us that many years after this, the only thing he would
remember clearly in detail were these first days of captivity. George
realized that the camp wasn't nothing that he expected, there was no
football pitch, seedbed, tuf, or flowers to be found anywhere. The
only thing he saw was his new house, an undecorated barn which he
couldn't go before night. The camp was sorruounded by electrified
barbed wire fences so no one could escape. A man with a red triangle
on his chest soon served a soop, or actually a dried vegetal stew with
a disgusting taste, thet the narrator threw away and stayed only with
a piece of bread and margarine. He sooned learned that apart from a
cup of coffee in the morning, this was the only food he would get, so
he never wasted the food again. A moment passed when all prisioners
noticed a weird smell coming from a chimney where dead people
supposedly where carried to be incinerated. The chief of the block
took the people to a trek where Goerge saw the Gypsies camps where he
also saw the women, by that moment completely bald as men. Three days
passed when they were taken to Buchelwald by train in a three days
journey. The system was different in Buchenwald, the Germans were more
agressive and the places were prisioners lived were tents and the food
was better. As in Auschtwitz, the prisoners were soon departed to
another concentration camp, Zeitz. Here the protagonist met Bandi
Citrom who will help him throughout the novel.