AS SURVIVORS AGE - AN OVERVIEW

You must look at them carefully. Their appearance is deceptive. ... Th ey look like the others. They eat, they laugh, they love.... But it is n't true. Anyone who has seen what they have seen cannot be like the o thers, cannot laugh, love, pray, bargain, suffer, have fun or forget l ike the others. You have to watch them carefully when they pass by an innocent-looking smokestack, or when they lift a piece of bread to the ir mouths. Something in them shudders and makes you turn your eyes awa y. These people have been amputated; they haven't lost their legs or e yes but their will and their taste for life. The thing that they have seen will come to the surface again sooner or later [Wiesel, 1970, pp. 79-80].