Jasmine Esquivel: 2nd Delivery Night

Summary
On the cars only some people could seat down and the thirst and the hungry were intolerable, alter three days the arived to Kaschau and everybody had to give the Germanb army gold, silver or watches.
There was a woman named Mrs. Schachter who was there only with her 10 year old boy, her older two sons and his husband were deported with the first transport, since the first day in the car she was like histerical and then in he third day she Stara yelling that she saw a FIRE and verybody tried to calm here, and so it was many times alter, she continue saying that she saw a fire.
They were ordered to divide, to the left the men and to the right the woman, and so he went with his father holding him of his hand.
An inmate appeared telling them that the fire they saw was because there they burned all the jews and he told them that they will also be burned there.
Elie wanted to think that the hole thing was just a dream and that someday he would wake up in his bedroom, but the truth was that everything was real and he had to lead with it.
There were many inmates to recieved them, they were told to take their clothes off, their clothes were going to be throw on the floor at the back of the Barrack, they also tore out their hear.
At five o’clock they were expelled from the barrack and ordered to run, they had to take a hot shower for desinfectation and then they recieved pants and jackets.
They were herded into another Barrack, inside the Gipsy camp.
An SS officer arrived and told them that they were in a concentration camp in Auschwitz, he tried to scare them by telling them that they had to work and if not they will be send to the crematorium.
The Kapos asked for specialists and the other one were send to another barrack, one of stone.
Elie felt that he had changad a lot when a Gipsy slapped his father and he didn’t do anything, he felt really bad that day.
They left the camp, walking for around half an hour, and as the last time they had to take the hot shower , and also they were orderes to run, the arrived to another block.
The next day at noon they were given some soup but he didin’t want it although he was very hungry, in the afternoon they get tattooed numbers on their left arms, and from that day on they were called by their numbers not by their names.
They had been in Auschwitz for 8 days and one day, a man asked for his father, he was his relatives Stein and they started tallking, and he continued Visiting them during the next days, until one day he left.
Their turn came and they had to leave Auschwitz and after foru hours teh arrived to the new camp named Buna.

Questions

1. ¿What is a ghetto? Where did the Nazi Army settle tose ghettos?

An area of a city in which Jews were forced to live until they were transported to a concentration camp or killing center.

www.elpasoholocaustmuseum.org/glossary.sstg

Jewish ghettos were established in Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Czech Republic, France,Hungary,Italy, Polan, Spain, The Netherlands, Turkey and United Kingdom. Some of them are he ghettos of:

Biala Podlaska Bialystok Bochnia Brody Czestochowa Grodno Izbica Jozefow Kielce Krakow Krasnystaw Kovno Lodz Lubartow Lublin Lvov Miedzyrzec Minsk Piaski Prague Przemysl Radom Riga Rzeszow Siedlce Tarnow Terezin Tluszcz Vilnius Warsaw Zamosc Zwolen

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/index.html

2. What is the difference between a concentration camp anda n extermination camp?

The differnce between a concentration camp and an extermination camp is that in the concentration camp Jewish people were sent because nazis considered by them that they were dangerous, these camps were officially considered labor camps but the people in them were not expected to survive because prisoners were worked or starved to death. These camps were meant just to work, on the other hand extermination camps were created by the Nazis for the killing of millions of jewish people, in there the Jewish people were cremated and they were entended to facility genocide.

http://www.elpasoholocaustmuseum.org/glossary.sstg

3. Locate the following camps in a map and explain if they are concentration or extermination.

Bergen-belzen : Concentration camp