Franek, the foreman, assigned me to a corner.
"Don't kill yourself. There’s no hurry. But watch out. Don’t let an SS catch you."
"Please sir ... I’d like to be near my father."
"All right. Your father will work here, next to you."
We were lucky.
Two boys came to join our group: Yossi and Tibi, two brothers from Czechoslovakia whose parents had been exterminated in Birkenau. They lived for each other, body and soul. (4.36-41)
Eliezer and his father, like the two Czech brothers, are lucky that they receive the same labor assignment. It allows them to stay together, watch out for each other, and live for each other.