Delivery three

Why were the prisoners marked or tattoed on their forearms? Does this has any religious implications for some groups?
Prisoners were tattoed on their forearm as means for an easier registration and identifiaction for roll calls. There are religious implications for the traditional jews that obey one of the commandments that say: "You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord."

Who were the Kapos? Why did fellowmen fear their leaders?
Kapos were authorities within concentration and extermination camps. They usually carried instructions from the supervisors from the SS. Kapos usually feared their leaders because if they didn't follow correctly instructions, and was severe towards his inmates he would suffer more severe consequences like being sent to the extermination camps as soon as possible.

When did Elie learn about the rest of his family?
Elie's father died around 1945 from dysentery, starvation and extreme fatigue. His mother and little sister were slaughtered when they arrived to Auschwitz the first days. Bea, Hilda and Elie were the only survivors.

SOS 3 47-65
In this part of the story Elie and his fahter are transferred to Buna, and they were sent to a Kommando that arranged electrical devices. Elie was requested for a visit to the dentist to remove his gold teeth. Elie avoided the removal, but later he had to give away the crown to Franek the foreman. Both Elie and his father endured Idek's rage. Elie met a French woman, who talked briefly to him in German, and he later encountered her in the subway. One day Elie's kommando was not required for work, he casually saw how Idek abused of a Pole girl. Elie soon got lashed many times unfairly.
One Sunday the place where Elie's father worked was raid by American planes, fortunately his fahter had survived unlike the poor man that crawled towards tha cauldron of boiling soup.
Many hangings were proformed during that lapse of time so as to serve as a warning for the inmates. The tragic death of the pipel could make anyone shed a tear.
Now that half of the book has already been read, the continuous feeling of hatred toward those people is unbearable. Beatings, hangings, starvation, fatigue, unfairness are starting to convince me that Elie's posture towards God is not that wrong, and still there are those who pray and trust in divinity. I cannot believe there can be anyone who thinks all these cases are a set-up form the Jews for the Wolrd to pity them.

Mr. Crow: My grandfather's witnessed the executions in Buna, and they told me the faces of the Jews who were forced to wath the corpses were unable to shed a tear, to express a feeling. They told me some of them were dead being alive.