Night, quote analysis part

" I heard a jew behind me heave a sigh 'What can we expect? ' he said ' It's war..."(Wiesel 16)
When the Jew talks about war it is an example of foreshadowing, because its leading to the fact that the Jewish community knows that bad things are going to happen to them and that safety isn't in their near future. 
This relates to the big picture of the story because it shows hold the older, and wiser of the Jewish Community already knew that it wasn't going tp get better for them. This also kind of like what Wiesel is trying to get across to his readers, that even though the Jewish Community has hope, most of them know that it is false hope. This is important because it helps show how the Jewish Community was treated.
"To the very last moment, a germ of hope stayed alive in our heads" (Weisel 25)
This shows how the members of the Jewish Community, held on to hope, even if they knew that clouds would never clear up for them. The author uses the word Germ to stress the point that hope was fighting to stay in themselves and infecting them to pray and wish things would turn out alright.
This relates to the bigger picture, because it shows how the strength the Jewish people had.