Chapter 3 notes

Concentration camps:

• threw babies into the flames
• wearing bad uniforms
• prisoners being forced to run
• food rationed--soup, bread
• giants flames and firepits
• the smoke
• families being separated

Dehumanization:

• possesions siezed
• had to wear the yellow stars
• tattooed numbers onto bodies
• shaved bodies/removed clothing and given shower
• make prisoners start to run--overcome by fatigue/lose sanity
• never called by name

Stein of Antwerp:

• family friend
• wanted to know about family
• elie lies and says the families okay
• eventually he finds out the truth--he dies

description of concentration camps

• separated into 2 different lines
• saw a large chimney and crematorium
• large fire pit that they were throwing people in
• put in empty barracks where they had to strip and give up their clothes
• taken to rough barbers that shaved them
• were given uniforms they had to wear even if they werent their size
• barbed wire all around the camp