Primo Levi was taken from Italy to Monowitz, also known as Auschwitz 3, in the early spring of 1944 at the age of twenty-four. Unlike Eliezer, Primo Levi had a vague idea of ​​what transportation meant for those captured by the Germans: “Only a minority of naive and deluded souls continued to hope; the rest of us had often spoken with the Polish and Croatian refugees and knew what the departure meant." (Levi, 3) One reason Eliezer did not know what was happening during the war before his deportation can be attributed to his young age and the fact that adults wanted to keep him in the dark about the ongoing tragedies. Even the rounding up of prisoners inside the camp where Primo Levi was in Italy took place in a very organized way: "With the absurd precision to which we then had to get used, the Germans made the roll call." (Levi, 4) Once the night had given way to dawn, the horrors of what would happen in the concentration camp had already begun in the ways of roll call and being crammed into the cattle carriages. Another similarity between the opening chapters of the two memoirs is the fact that once again no one knew anything about what happened in the camp they were headed to. As mentioned in Primo Levi's memoirs, "Auschwitz: a name without meaning for us at that time, but implied at least some place on this earth." (6) The events that led to the entry of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel into Auschwitz were very parallel experiences, the main difference lying in their backgrounds. Once through those barbed wire gates, their lives would never be the same after witnessing the atrocities of what was to be known