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Im agine soldiers barging into your house you. You are forced to walk to an old wooden Life as a Jew in Auschwitz Statistics of the kids in Auschwitz
throwing you out of the front door, you are shed where there are bunks, but no beds? The
Jews were transferred to the cam p with Over 1.3 m illion people were killed at
lead to a big cattle truck and are shoved in soldiers force everyone into the shed, again
the help of carts or trucks. You cram ped in Auschwitz including 1.1 m illion Jews. 6000
along with your fam ily and m any others. there?s an outbreak, people call for their
with m any other people and had nothing to of them dying each day, just for m ore Jews to
After a 2 hour drive and a cram ped truck parents, and parents call for their children. For
eat. M oshe, aged 17, from H ungary, then arrive in the cattle truck and die. (Killing
all you know you could be in a shed with your
explains that: ?the doors were shut, leaving Centers: In Depth) Other people died as well
fam ily or a sibling. Luckily for you, you find
us alm ost in darkness. The grills, too, were such as Gypsies also called Rom as who
your m om , and your sister. You hug each other
closed to prevent escape. Air entered only were im m igrants from the east who lived
tightly not wanting to let go. You wonder
through the cracks. So we traveled for 24 from seasonal work and fortune telling.
where your dad is, you then rem em ber he was
hours, without food or water. W e were Poles were also killed in large num bers
separated from everyone else and lead into
hungry and thirsty. But the desire and hope (Auschwitz). Of the am ount of people at the
another room . As you settle down, you ask, ?
to see our fam ilies m ade us forget cam p, there was over 700 youth, 500 of
M om why are we forced into this shed, and
everything else.?(Daily Life) After being them being under 15. M ajority of the kids
pushed around by soldiers.? You m om replies
transferred from the cam p, people were suffered from diseases com ing from the
slowly, as tears fall down her cheek, ?Because
separated, but the children stayed with the cam p, and 60 percent of them vitam in
we?re Jewish.?
m others. They then went into separate deficiency and weakening of the organism .
room s and all their hair was shaved off. 40 percent of them had tuberculosis (pop
Background of Auschwitz the death Anna an 11 year old said, ?when the cold up of definition). And m any were
A picture of a transportation cart Courtesy
of study.com cam p scissors touch m y scalp and m y hair slowly underweight from 5-17 kilogram s. (The Fate
falls down, I can?t help it, m y tears fall down,
Auschwitz was built during 1941 and 1942
with 300 people. You are forced out of the m ixed with m y black curls.? Then they are
by the Soviet Union. Auschwitz is the largest
truck by soldiers, with guns pointed at your m oved into another room where they are
and m ost historically significant
chest. You can barely m ake out m any given striped shirts, pants, wood shoes, and
concentration cam p of all tim e. Auschwitz was
wooden sheds, you see a old m an wearing cloth caps. Som e people traded clothes
used to keep the Jews in captivity during
pajam as. You are so confused. Before you depending on if they got the incorrect size.
W W II and the H olocaust. This awful place
can get a closer look you are shoved into a For lunch they would get watery soup and if
killed over 1.1 m illion people, including 1
room and separated from your fam ily. You lucky a potato scrap (Daily Life).
m illion Jews. Over the course of 2-3 years, this
hear scream ing, ? M om !? ?Dad! Com e back.?
awful place resides in present day Poland
The soldiers scream over top of everyone
(Auschwitz).
telling them to shut up or there will be
trouble. Slowly the room gets quiet, and A picture of the Gas Cham bers at
Auschwitz Courtesy of Im gur
they start passing out clothes, the sam e
ones you saw the old m an wearing. Up

close you realize the clothes are blue and
white striped. A pair gets shoved into your
hands and are im m ediately told to change
into them . You do as you?re told not daring
to not listen. After everyone has changed,

the soldiers are yelling again, ordering
everyone out of the room . Again you are Picture of clothing at Auschwitz
struggling to walk on the m uddy floor Courtesy of Freedom Center
A M ap of Auschwitz Courtesy of ISurvived
while m any other people are surrounding