Night- Chapter 2

All of the Jews are trapped in a cattle car. They are in serious pain and agony. There are so many of them that there is little air to get to everyone. They are starting to lose their minds and start to flirt and exchange conversation as if they were all single. As many are not crazy yet, they ignore the others actions.

When the train arrives at the Czechoslovakian border, a German soldier takes charge of the train. The Jews are threatened with the chance of death if there were less people on the train later and there is now. As a prevention of this, the doors are nailed shut. Madame Schachter, a middle-aged woman who is on the train with her ten-year- old son, is the first to go completely crazy. On the third night she begins to scream that she sees a fire in the darkness outside the car. To stop her from waking the soldiers, the men tie her and get her to stop screaming. They find out that they are going to Auschwitz. The locals tell them that they will be treated good and fed. This brings hope to the people.

This was the way these people were treated just on the trains. They were even being treated like nothing even on the trains to get to the concentration camps. This is not how humans should be and they should treat other people.

Websites:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/Holocaust/chelmno1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Umschlagplatz

http://www.aish.com/holocaust/overview/he05n21.htm

P.3-22 NIGHT

As I was reading this book about the victims of the holocaust, I realized the amount of pain and suffering just one family had to go through. This family consists of a father, mother, boy, and a girl. They live in Sighet, a little town in Transylvania. The Jewish community in this town was like one big family and would do anything to help someone in need.

As a war began, the town became a ghetto and the government of the Germans entered without the consent of the people. The Germans lived in the houses of the Jews and they expect to be fed and housed without pay. The Jews had to work for the Germans to keep their heads. The Germans had closed down the churches and synagogues to stop the worship of the Jewish religion. The Jews were transported to a place where they didn’t know what was going to happen to them and if they would stay together. They tried to prepare, but they can not prepare for what is in their future. In the book it says, "Each of us will be allowed to bring his personal belongings. A backpack, some food, a few items of clothing. Nothing else.” This is the Jews’ mind set and they are telling themselves that it will be not as terrible as they think. The Hungarian police had a different plan. “The Hungarians police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one.” The Jews were in the worst condition possible.

These people were in a place that they must live day by day. I think this was the worst place a person could be in and the worst way treated. These people have had to be the bravest in the world because they had to face their challenges face on.

Websites:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust


2. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html


3. http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm


4. http://www.holocaust-history.org/

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