This excerpt explains the torture meted to the Jews.
Step-by-step explanation:
- Madame Schachter begins to scream when she sees a fire in the darkness outside the car. She terrifies the Jews in the car, but others console themselves saying Madame Schächter is crazy.
- Finally, she is tied up and gagged so that she cannot scream. Her child, sitting next to her, watches and cries. When Madame Schächter breaks out of her bonds and continues to scream about the furnace that awaits them,
- Madame Schachter who is able to foresee the future is considered crazy. Wiesel says sanity and insanity become confused when they face atrocities.