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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

Brief Love

1. The poem is very blunt and forward about the conditions on the cattle car. It doesnt mask over what went on in the car just because its a poem explaining an intimate encounter.
2. I still wonder how long they were together, and what they all had talked about, or if it was just love at first sight.
3. There are many connections with this poem and other Holocaust materials we've read such as the conditions of the cattle car. It also explains how people were dying left and right, also touch on the fact that they would trik people into thinking they were going into a shower then they would gas them.

fire class discussion

Fire symbolism:

• crematoriums = death
• fear
• burning bodies, faith, culture, memories
• the hate and chaos
• destruction happening
• power of the Nazis

Fire

The woman who sees the flames is very important, she somewhat foreshadows the events in store for the Jews. The first time she was shouting about the fire, no one believed her, yet once they got to the concentration camp there was an actual fire, she was dead on. This part in the story shows how high the peoples nerves were after being in a cattle car for so long, in the unbarable heat, they even resorted to beating her to stop the yelling.

Class list foreshadowing

Foreshadowing

• Jews were expelled from Sighet.
• Moishe the Beatle came back to warn the other people.
• The Gestapo and hungarian police enter sighet
• The Ghetto, lost all rights
• All jews were lined up ready for transport.
• when Moishe was taken away, someone said "What do you expect, thats war."
• The family member knocking at the window