Night By Elie Wiesel

A concentration camp in Polish areas operated by the Third Reich during World War II.
Facts About Auschwitz:
It contained 3 main camps and 45 satellite camps. Auschwitz for a long time had been a German name for Oswiecim, the town which the camps were located by. The name "Auschwitz" became official after the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939.


The image is of the people entering Auschwitz.

A concentration camp that was part of Auschwitz.
Facts About Birkenau:
It was built after Auschwitz I and more people had passed through its gates then Auschwitz I. The first gas chamber at Birkenau was called the "Little Red House," because it was a small, red, brick cottage. It was up for usage in March of 1942.

The image is the survivors of Birkenau

Cattle cars or the Holocaust trains.

Facts: The trip would last about 4 and a half days, sometimes longer if troops needed to use the tracks. Most of the time the people in these trains only had standing room. The longest transport of war, from Corfu, took 18 days. When they finally opened the doors to the camps everyone in the train had died.

To believe good things are going to happen.

The Germans made the camps seem like a good thing. Many people had optimistic thoughts. Although all these things the Germans said was a lie

A very bad smell.

This is how Elie describes the cattle cars smelling. Probably because no one showered or brushed their teeth and everyone did their business in a bucket inside the closely packed cattle car.