Thursday, October 30, 2008

Chapter 4


The inmate would say that Buna was a good camp because it was a work camp while Birkenau was a extermination camp. The conditions at the work camp were not as harsh as those in Birkenau. For the most part, Buna wasn't a bad place to be, compared to the other camps. They had a place and opportunity to sleep, had some food and were alive. We think that Buna was about 4 miles from Birkenau. It would take so long to get from camp to camp because there were thousands of people and they were all traveling at a slow pace because they probably were all very weak. Also, the weather conditions were not ideal either. It was freezing cold and snowing outside.

A possible reason that the woman would want to leave her home and come to Poland because she had already been passed as an Aryan and may have wanted to be able to be at Buna where she could fly under the radar by working for the Germans. Buna was a camp where the people were not listed to be exterminated. This would mean that as long as the woman didn't draw attention to herself that she could get away with just working at the camp as a Frenchwoman. Also, France had been taken over by Germany and the woman may have been afraid of staying in France and getting found out.

4 comments:

Andrea said...

I agree with you. And for the second question she was just trying to survive. In a situation that was either life or death wouldn't you do everything to survive? I never thought about that until I read your post. I like how you said "...She could fly under the radar...". That is a great way to state it straight to the point! Great post! :)

Nikki W. said...

I agree with you. I believe for the second question that she wanted to go to Buna because she didnt want anyone to know about her speaking German and have to go to Birkenau to get exterminated. I did like your post. Good Job!

Jackie G. said...

i really agree with you i thought the same way as you did on why the inmate had said that Buna was better than Birkenau. The answer i had was the difference is that Buna is a work a camp. Good post I really liked it

***SHANO THE DRAINO*** said...

I agree with most of your post. I agree that Buna was better that Birkenau but they were both not good places to go