Chapters 1113

1
Chapters 11-13

• 1. Describe the conditions of the boxcars and the
  length of time spent in them.
• They were kept inside of them for four days
  and nights with one brief stop for each boxcar.
  It was like standing in an oven that smelled of
  human sweat, urine, and feces. Four dead bodies
  were slung out onto a siding and a dead baby was
  cast behind a horse watering trough.
• 2. What message adorned the iron gates of the
  camp?
• Work makes you free was written on the
  gates.

2

• 3. Why is Hannah made to surrender her blue hair
  ribbons?
• Hannah questions and speaks out to the woman
  guard. She is slapped on both cheeks.
• 4. What does the woman guard in the blue dress
  tell them to do first?
• She tells them to undress in order to go to
  the showers.
• 5. Why does Hannah decide not to say anymore
  about what she remembers about the Holocaust,
• especially the showers?
• She wants to be brave while waiting and not
  take away the others' hope, which is all they
  have.

3

• 6. After her hair is shorn from her head, what
  does Hannah realize?
• She has lost her memory. She'd been shorn of
  her memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her
  hair, without permission, without reason. She is
  startled because all the girls and women look
  alike with no hair.
• 7. What command does Hannah impose upon herself
  to numb the shock?
• Don't think. Do.
• 8. After their heads are shaved and they survive
  the cold showers, where are they next sent?
• They are sent to a dimly lit room to find
  something to wear and then to be tattooed.

4

• 9. What distressing information does the man who
  tattoos Hannah give her?
• She is wearing his dead daughter's dress and
  Hannah's name is the same as hers,
• Chaya.
• 10. When Gitl tries to leave the barracks to find
  something to eat for the children, what does the
  young soldier tell her?
• He says, "they will get used to it." He then
  points to the smokestack saying, "That is Jew
  smoke. Learn to eat when it's given to you, Jew,
  or you, too, go up that stack."

5

• 11. Why doesn't Gitl want Hannah to touch
• Tzipporah upon waking the next
• morning?
• She has died in her sleep.
• 12. What instructions are the zugangi given
• pertaining to the bowls they are issued?
• Use them to wash, eat, and drink.
• Everything. The young girl, Rivka,
• handing them out calls them 'Every
• Bowls'.
• Zugangi- newcomers to the camp

6

• 13. What message does the officer give to
• the newcomers after they have eaten?
• You will work hard, never answer back,
• complain, or question or try to escape.
• All this will be done for the Fatherland.
• Fatherland means Germany

7

• Zugangi- newcomers to the camp
• Fatherland means Germany

8
(No Transcript)
9
Every camp had the motto, Arbeit Macht Frei.
Work Makes You Free
10

11

• "...treated like animals..."After going through
  lines, prisoners like my grandfather were treated
  like animals and tattooed on their left arm with
  a unique number, had their heads shaved, and
  changed into prison clothes, making the captives
  appear strangely similar. The number my
  grandfather has still embedded in his arm is
  A8272, and he believes that it is twice the size
  of other tattoos because he pulled away his arm
  from the man doing the tattoo on him at first. In
  Auschwitz there were gassings with the chemical
  Zyclon B, barbed wire fences, and canals
  surrounding the premises. More than one million
  prisoners, according to some sources, died at
  this infamous concentration camp. The life
  expectancy in forced labor there was only a few
  months.
• Mark Klein,
  holocaust survivor

12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14

• 
  Crematorium
• at
  
• 
  Majdanek
• 
  Concentration
• 
  Camp
• in
• 
  Poland

15
Ovens in the Crematorium at Majdanek
16
Ravensbruck barracks
17
Terezin Barracks - beds