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Rita Yamberger rode in one boxcar of a train with 80 other people, standing room only, for four days. All 80 people used one bucket to drink from and another bucket that served as a toilet. When Rita got to the concentration camp she pretended to be older and pretended her sister’s son was hers. The guards realized she was young and asked her how old she was. By telling the truth, she got out of going to the crematorium (Alder 49).

Although millions of prisoners died in the concentration camps, many survived to tell about the horrible ordeal they went through. One man, Primo Levi, author of “Survival at Auschwitz,” lived 42 years with the pain of knowing what happened when he was in Auschwitz. Finally in 1987 he couldn’t handle it anymore and he threw himself down a stairwell. Jean Amery, a Jewish philosopher, took his own life 33 years after the Nazis failed to take it from him. Many survivors often said, “Better never to have been born at all, perhaps, than to live through Auschwitz” (Alder 48).

Ruth Elias arrived in Auschwitz nearly three months pregnant. She was put in the marked for death line, but got pushed to the side of the young. She then headed to the labor camp. When she was eight months pregnant the guards found out she was pregnant and they sent her back to Auschwitz. After she had the baby, Dr. Mengele wanted to see how long it would take to starve the baby to death, so he made Ruth bandage her breasts. The baby lived two weeks without food, until a Jewish doctor gave Ruth a shot of morphine and told her to give it to the baby. Ruth gave her baby the shot and he immediately died (Alder 54).

Prisoners were tortured and killed in very hideous ways. One guard hit a man so hard that his eye was knocked out of its socket. The guard felt bad so he called in a doctor. The doctor, who was also a prisoner, informed the guard that the man would only live a few days but would suffer greatly. To finish the prisoner off, the guard shot him in the temple (Steiner 40). Another guard who worked at Auschwitz, who was later tried and sentenced to death, trampled a young boy to death when he overslept. The guard throttled two elderly prisoners, by laying

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