The Consuming Fire...Damien Munguia, Ricardo

After days of travel on the hermetical cattle cars, many intolerabilities arose arose. Lying down was not an option, not everyone could sit down, everyone had extreme thirst, and the rising heat didn't exactly help. The kids even resorted to caressing each other at night when they thought no one was looking. Everyone else just pretended not to notice. There was food, but not enough for everyone to eat until they were hungry, and what happens if the following day is worse? The train stopped in Hungary, where German officers collected whatever gold, silver, and valuables they had left. Later a woman named Ms. Schåchter, whom had been taken away from her family, began to scream about fire. At first everyone panicked, looking for the fire. When no one saw a fire, they calmed themselves by telling themselves by saying she was dillusional. She continued to scream about fire and when it became intolerable, men bound and gagged her.    A few hours later, she had broken free and began screaming again, waking everyone up. This caused her to recieve several blows to the head. The following day she was just silent. All of a sudden she started screaming again, no one had the energy to silence her, then they stopped at their destination. Auschwitz.  In exchange for a gold watch, the jews learned that it was a labor camp and that families would stay together. After this information was recieved the jews were delighted. Ms. Schåchter began screaming again. This time they did see fire. From a tall chimney they saw smoke with the smell of burning flesh. Camp labored rushed in beating the Jews with sticks. They told the Jews to leave their possessions and get out of the car. They were now in Auschwitz...