Other settings to consider include Auchwitz or Buchenwald. These are concentration camp locations that left significant marks on the main character's physical and emotional states. Upon pulling into the first one, Eliezer recalls the woman's constant references to the great fire images she was imagining because a great fire burns with a stench that is entirely distinguishable: human flesh. I cannot think of a more impressionable aspect of setting that would impact the author. This was disgusting and nauseating. To consider what was happening to the humanity around him considerably hurt, but prior to their arrival, the thought of the war and the Jewish removal felt surreal.
Part of his belief system was not to fight back. This felt counter-human to him, but he went along with what he was told and did not fight at that point.
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