Explain what is meant by the last lines of this section in relation to the hanging of the young boy.

There isn't a prisoner present who doesn't feel inconsolable emotion over the execution of the pipel. "Where is God now?" is the same question people asked after the recent grade school shootings, people often ask just that question in the midst of horror. Things aren't so different now as you might believe. Elie's response simply means that for him God died that day.