In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel it talks about the Jewish people from the ghetto who are traveling on a train to the Germans camps. The passengers on the train ride had such deplorable conditions that it was difficult for them to endure. One poor mother was pushed past her breaking point and she completely broke down. It was not surprising because the people seemed to be treated more like cattle than human beings.
The Jews were packed so tightly on the train that they could not all lie down or sit down at the same time. There was little food and the water was running out. They said that the lucky ones got a window seat with the little air that there was and this allowed them to be able to see the blooming country side. When the train stopped in Kaschau, a small town ion the Czechoslovakian boarder, everyone was shocked. There they were inspected for the last time for jewels and watches. If anyone was caught later with valuables they would be killed on the spot.
On the train there was a mother named Mrs. Shachter who was emotional distraught because her husband and two older sons were taken on the first transport. This left her with only her younger ten year old son. She started with questions of where they had been taken and then started to cry and scream hysterically. The trip had been so hard on her that she became what some people said to be “mad”. She screamed Look! Look at the fire! This terrible fire! Have mercy on me.” When people looked out the window they saw nothing and tried to get back to sleep. She had started to do this more often and people started getting angry and it was starting to take a toll on them. So the people started to gag and beat her. Even this would only work for a short time. This was hard on her son who held her and was terribly upset but sat beside her the entire time. Finally, they got Mrs. Shachter to stop and the passengers started to forget about her.