Second Delivery

1. What is a ghetto? Where did the Nazis settle these ghettos?
A ghetto is a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions. The most known ghettos are the Jewish ghettos, established during the World War II by the Nazis, to control and segregate Jews. German constructed about 1,000 The nazis settled the ghettos inside the cities and they looked very much like a neighborhood.

2. What is the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp?
Concentration camps were camps used as places of incarceration and forced labor for a variety of enemies of the state; the Nazi label for people they deemed undesirable (principally Jews). Jews were then deported to the extermination camps, that were camps established to kill prisoners delivered there, so they were mainly settled to facilitate Jewish genocide.

3. Bergen-Belsen: Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen. Built in 1940, it was a prisoner-of-war camp for French and Belgium prisoners. Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals.
Auschwitz: it was the largest of Nazi Germany's extermination camps. Almost 3 million people were killed in Auscwitz. It had Jews from almost all European countries. Most victims were killed in Auschwitz's gas chambers; other deaths were caused by systematic starvation, forced labor, lack of disease control, individual executions, and purported "medical experiments".
Dachau: Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the Nazis in Germany. The camp was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau. Dachau served as a prototype and model for other Nazi concentration camps that followed.
Treblinka: a camp hidden in the remote forests of northeastern Poland, along the western border of the Bialystok province. Around 850,00 people ,more than 99.5 percent of them Jews, but also other victims (among them 2,000 Romani people) were killed there.
Buchenbald: was one of the largest concentration camps established by the Nazis. Buchenwald first opened for male prisoners in July 1937. Women were not part of the Buchenwald camp system until 1944. The camp was surrounded by an electrified barbed-wire fence, watchtowers, and a chain of sentries outfitted with automatically activated machine guns.

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After being taken away from the small ghetto, Elie and all his family are taken to a train station and they are kept into cattle cars. The cattle car is relatively small, considering that there were many Jews, and it's very dark. Later, it got worse, because people began to get get hungry and thirsty and there was a tremendous heat. Because of these conditions some people began to loose their minds. Then the train stops in the Czechoslovakian border, where a German soldier appears and tells everybody that he's taking charge of the train and that if somebody doesn't give his belongings he'll kill him and that if somebody escapes, he will kill all the Jews inside the car. After having said this, the German locks the door of the car with nails. In the train there was a woman called Madame Schächter, that had a ten-year-old son, that becomes crazy because of the conditions, since one night of traveling, she suddenly woke up and began screaming that there was fire outside the car. Everybody checked but nobody saw even a gleam. After days of traveling, the train finally stops in Auschwitz station, and all the Jews were taken down from the car. They were lead to a camp (this was a concentration camp called Birkenau) and they were told that they were going to work there and that they would be well treated, everybody got calm because of this news. In the camp, Elie and the Jews say several constructions with chimneys that were working all day and they noticed a horrible smell that they recognized as the one of human bodies being burned.
I think that such treatment against human beings is intolerable, because they just cheated them and gave them false hopes and because they also were treated like animals (enclosed in dark rooms with no food or water). They also exploided them because they were made to work in an insane way to be killed later. I think that this was a really unfair treatment due to the lack of ideological tolerance.