Saturday, April 26, 2008

Part 2:


In this part of the book the Jews are on the cattle car and are headed to an unnown place. The heat, lack of food and drink, and the lack of a bathroom make the train ride unbearable. They travel for two days in these conditions.

Madamae Schaechter who is on the train with her ten year old son begins to lose her mind as she experinces a prophetic like experince. Madamae Schaechter begins to scream about a large fire, and a furnance. The men are forced to beat her inorder for er to stop screaming, but this does not last long as she begins to scream again. Little did the Jews know but their fate was going to be "the large fire and the furnace".

The train finally pulls up to te reception gates at Auschwitz were the Jews are told that the conditions are much better than on the train. To their dismay they step out into a world the reeks of burning flesh, and in the center of it all large clouds of smoke that emerge from a large chimney that is connected to a furnance. Madamae Schaechter suddently stops her screaming when she sees that her vision has turned into reality.



Saturday, April 19, 2008

The story Night is written by Elie Wiesel and it recounts the struggle that he faced in the German consitration camps during World War II. At the beginning of the book the main character Eliezer is described as being a person who enjoys studying Jewish works.Eliezer is the only son in his family but he has two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, he also has a younger sister named Tzipora. They all live in

One day
Eliezer's spiritual advisor Moche and the non-Hungarian Jews are removed from the town by the Hungarian police, and the towns people soon forget about them missing. A few months later Moche escapes from a German concentration camp and returns to the town inorder to warn the people about the oncomming terror. The people in the town dismiss his warnings and continnue with their everyday lives.

Soon German troops begin to inhabit the town and they are polite to the people. During the passover celebration the full force of the German troops is used, and they force the jews to remain in their homes, give up teir valubles, and they all must wear yellow stars. The people are all then forced out of their homes and moved into two seperate ghettos, one small ghetto, and one larger ghetto. everybody lives in te ghetto for the holiday and they are then packed into the synagogue for a whole day. The next day the people are packed into cattle cars with one person in charge per car. That person is givin the order to shoot if anything occurs on the train.



Thursday, April 10, 2008