Hundreds lead to thousands and thousands lead to millions, more innocent people taken to camps due to being different. On religion, sex, or not being tied down to a town. Auschwitz was the worst camp of all, 1.1-1.5 million people died there. People were forced out of their homes into cramped cattle carts with up to 100 other people for days even weeks. With little water and no food unknown were there destination would be. If you were under the age 18+, disabled, elderly, and sometimes women; were sent down a different path into the gas chambers to be killed. Around 75% arriving to these camps automatically went right down to the chambers. Auschwitz was the size of 5,000 football fields filled with, moldy bread and bad soup along with death around every corner. In the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel is about a holocaust survivor who wrote down what an awful experience. It gave …show more content…
Not so much train but cart. On the train it was dark, smelly, and scary. People would scream have visions and Elie just wittinid all of this. After a few days possibly weeks they arrived at Auschwitz. When pulled out of the cart and into lines Elie was told to change his age from 15 to 18. He didn’t argue with the officer, he did what he was told. This was a very important decision because it saved his life. If he had said he’s real age he would be sent to the gas chambers and killed. Instead he went with his dad and worked, worked harder than he ever has before in his life. He ran non stop, mile after mile, he got sick and hurt. But he still had to run. This decision goes both ways, if he told the truth he would've died right away. He wouldn’t have had to run, or be sick, or his father die right in front of him. But he did survive he kept running, after he lost faith in god his faith went to himself. He worked, mile after mile he worked. And it payed it off, he