Compare the way Wiesel describes the “pit for adults” to the scene with his description of the babies

The pit for babies contains Hell imagery, A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes … children thrown into the flames.

The pit of adults is dark, the stuff of nightmares. A little farther on, there was another, larger pit for adults. I pinched myself: