... psychological torture the passengers would be subject to. After a couple of days of not eating or drinking, German townspeople began tossing scraps of bread into the train cars, watching the Jews scramble for them as a means of dehumanizing entertainment. It was at this concentration camp that the ... adequate medical care. Wiesel reflects on having a cup of coffee in the morning, a plate of soup in the afternoon, and a "ration" of bread at night on a typical day at Auschwitz (p. 40). The physical torment that became commonplace at these concentration camps ranged from baton whacks to whi...

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... jewel smuggling. From there they were sent off to be put in wagons that tightly fit eight people, one window with bars so no one could escape a few loaves of bread and two buckets of water. In the wagon they were not allowed to lie down; they were only able to sit if they others decided to stand and take turns ... and that would be on Sunday, on that day they could do almost whatever they wanted. They were even treated a little better by receiving an extra portion of food or bread that is all the Jews were served. Because of these conditions the older Jews began to die because their bod...

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• Grade Level: High School

... jewel smuggling. From there they were sent off to be put in wagons that tightly fit eight people, one window with bars so no one could escape a few loaves of bread and two buckets of water. In the wagon they were not allowed to lie down; they were only able to sit if they others decided to stand and take turns ... and that would be on Sunday, on that day they could do almost whatever they wanted. They were even treated a little better by receiving an extra portion of food or bread that is all the Jews were served. Because of these conditions the older Jews began to die because their bod...

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• Grade Level: High School

... back. "There is a phase of suffering you reach beyond which you become a brute: beyond it you sell your soul "and worse, the souls of friends "for a piece of bread, for some warmth, for a moment of oblivion, of sleep- (Estess, "Journey- 6). Regardless of a person's background, the brutalities of the Nazis force away a person's history. It doesn't matter who a person is ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School