It seems that your question is referring to when Elie and
his family are all still together in Sighet rather then when Elie and his father have
already been through their camp experience. If that is the case, the Wiesel family and
the other Jews from Sighet miss numerous opportunities to escape before their
deportations. Below are some of those opportunities.
1.
Moshe the Beadle narrowly escapes death when he is deported as a "foreign" Jew and
returns to Sighet to warn everyone of the Nazis' intention to kill Jews. No one takes
Moshe seriously; if the Wiesels had listened to him, they would have had plenty of time
to leave before the Germans came.
2. Chlomo Wiesel, Elie's
father, received word that he could gather his money and buy a safe escape for him and
his family. Unfortunately, he does not think events are bad enough to do
so.
3. When steps of dehumanization begin in Sighet such as
wearing the star, quartering soldiers, moving to the ghetto, being forbidden to attend
the synagogue, Elie's father does not recognize those steps for what they are. In
Chapter One, he brushes them off by saying that "it's just a yellow
star."
4. Even on the night before their deportation, a
friend knocks on the Wiesels' window to try to get them to escape to safety, but they do
not leave because they do not think that deportation to a "work" camp will be that
bad.
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