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"Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? Over there--that's where you're going to be taken.  That's your grave, over there." DM

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"through the windows, we saw barbed wire; we understood that this was the camp. we had forgotten Mrs. Scachter's existence. Suddenly there was a terrible scream..."(28)

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"We were trembling, and with every screech of the wheels, we felt the abyss open beneath us." p. 25

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" It took us a long time to recover from this harsh awakening. We were still trembling, and with every screech of the wheels, we felts the abyss opening beneath us. Unable to still our anguish, we tried to reassure eachother..." (25)

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"... her screams, which tore us apart.  A few more days and all of us would have started to scream." p. 26

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"our nerves had reached a breaking point.  Our very skin was aching.  It was as though madness had infected all of us."  Madness means craziness.

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"Auschwitz.  Nobody had ever heard that name."  Ironically, it is 1944, five years into the war and no one in the cattle car had ever heard of Auschwitz, or the most infamous concentration camp in German history.

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" After two days of travel, thirst became intolerable, as did the heat." pg.23 Q.B.

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"She kept asking why she had been separated from her family. Later, her sobs and screams became hysterical'" (24). Clearly, the cruel conditions of the cattle cars caused Mrs. Schacter to go insane. J.G

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"In front of us, those flames.  In the air, the smell of burning flesh.  It must have been around midnight.  We had arrived.  In Birkenau."  Madame Schacter's screams about fire are visionary, or psychic, because the first thing everyone sees when arriving at Birkenau, is the fire coming out of the crematoriums.

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It was if she was possessed by some evil spirit. (page 25) Mrs. Schachter is screaming uncontrollably and they can't get her to stop. Its as if she's has gone crazy and wasn't herself.  -K.C.

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"Through the window, we saw barbed wire; we understood that this was the camp." P.28  They found out that they were heading to the camp and don't know what would happen. M.Y.

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"we were sleeping, some of us sitting, huddled against each other, some of us standing" pg 25 EJ

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We were still trembling and with every screech of the wheels we felt the abyss opening beneath us. N.E

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" Around eleven o'clock, the train began to move again. We pressed against the windows. The convoy was rolling slowly. A quarter of an h o u r later, it began to slow down even more. Through the windows, we saw barbed wire; we understood that this was the camp." pg28 HX

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“It took us a long time to recover from this harsh awakening. We were still trembling, and with every screech of the wheels, we felt the abyss opening beneath us.” Page 25 J.C

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"Lying down was not an option, nor could we all sit down. We decided to take turns sitting. There was little air. The lucky ones found themselves near a window." Pg. 23. This quote demonstrates how crammed and close together all the people were. They couldn't even sit down at the same time. D.A.

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"'Anyone who still owns gold, silver, or watches must hand them over now. Anyone who will be found to have kept any of these will be shot on the spot'" (24). J.G.

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“There was still some food left. But we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger. Our principle was to economize, to save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be worse yet.” Page 23 J.C

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"She was pointing somewhere in the distance, always the same place. No one felt like beating her anymore. The hear, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocation us".  The passengers gave up in trying to stop the crazy women anymore because of the harsh conditions in the train.- Jason Ting

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It took us a long time to recover from this harsh awakening. We were still trembling, and with every screech of the wheels, we felt the abyss opening beneath us. (page 25)  -K.C. They were just awoken and scared by Mrs. Schachter's screaming, and now they are trying to settle down but they are still very awake and aware. They feel every single movement and hear every single sound which creates a lot of suspense.

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“There are eighty of you in the car” pg 24 - so many people were stuffed into one little cattle car with no room at all and it just shows how inhumane the circumstances and how they were being treated was. - elle jackman

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“ The doors clancked shut. We had fallen into the trap, up to our necks. The doors were nailed, the way back irrevocably cut off. The world had become a hermetically sealed cattle car.”  page 24 The nazis clearly had no regard for the conditions of the jews in the cattle cars by making them unescapable to the jews inside-Quinn Bunshaft