Analysis: The other man who said this was a rebel but only to a certain extent. What is saying is that to whom of those who could escape to spread the word of the cruelty and death that is occurring at Auschwitz. I believe by the man using 'existence' he really meant by the truth of it. He is saying that people don't really know the truths of concentration camps and they go to the extent of being recalled as death camps.
Quote: "Yitgadal veyitkadach shme raba . . . . May His Name be blessed and magnified . . . ." (Wiesel 42).
Analysis: Elie's father seems to know what this man is feeling and what is mostly likely going to happen to him. 'May His Name be blessed and magnified' is almost the same meaning as 'May His Soul rest in peace'. Elie's father knows that in the near future he, along with hundreds and thousands others, will be killed and burned in the crematorium. He knows what the man that is praying is feeling because he is feeling the same at that very moment. I think what Elie's father did was the respectful thing to do and is a sign of strength at this low point in time.