Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.
We arrived at the station, where the cattle cars were waiting. Ever since my book Night I have pursued those nocturnal trains that crossed the devastated continent. Their shadow haunts my writing. They symbolize solitude, distress, and the relentless march of Jewish multitudes toward agony and death. I freeze every time I hear a train whistle.
Read the text and study the image from Spiegelman’s Maus.
Which is an accurate statement about the excerpt and panel?
A. Both support the fact that millions of innocent Jews were rounded up and taken to concentration camps.
B. Both support the idea that Wiesel and Spiegelman’s father continue to be haunted by their memories of the Holocaust.
C. Both detail an account of Wiesel and Spiegelman’s fathers being transported to Auschwitz.
D. Both depict the emotional impact of what it was like to be sorted and separated by the Nazis and then shipped to the unknown.
