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.