You and your family have walked over twenty miles under Nazi guards to the train stations. You had taken many train trips with your father and brother to the cities to get work supplies, but these trains do not resemble those trains. They look like the cattle cars uncle Elie used to transport his herd to the german slaughters. |
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You are shoved in the cars in large groups. There is no room to breath. You are scared and Papa tells you and Claudia (your twin sister) to be strong. "Strength is in our blood. Our people are a suffering people," Papa kept saying. You cannot breath or move. It is so tight and hot. There is no where to use the bathroom. It has been at least twelve hours now, and the train suddenly stops. The door is slightly opened and men in Nazi uniforms spray water from a hose into your car. You feel suffocated, but try to drink the water that comes through. |
Your grandmother and grandfather
are very ill. Your baby brother is hungry and crying. You are afraid
they will not make the trip to wherever it is these horrible men are taking
you. Write your feelings about your trip to the concentration camps in
your journal. Now use the
links below to conduct your own research Dachau and Auschwitz, two very
important camps. When you click on the link, go to the "camp system" and
click on it, then go to the darkened words Dachau and Auschwitz and click
on them (separately of course). Write down the information about each that
stands out at you upon reading the articles in your journal
. Describe the living quarters, the prisoners held in each camp. What did
you previously knew about the concentration camp? What facts did you find
out about the two camps? What did you find most interesting?
Now check out these two other links concerning the concentration camps.
After researching Dachau and Auschwitz and hearing personal accounts at the camps, decide which camp you will be entering.
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