After reading the firsts 8 chapters of “The Cage,” you get a very clear image of what the ghetto was like. In the ghetto 180,000 men, women and children were all trapped together in a huge barbed wire cage. Every person was suffering from un-employment, hunger and disease. Most of the diseases had no cure due to the fact that the doctors had no medicine and were broke as well. There were no more factories because of the Nazis and all machinery was surrendered to them. Mothers are very worried about the health of their children and fathers are looking frantically for a job, but all doors are closed to them. School vacation is long over, but no schools are open for the children of the ghetto. The children play a new game with all their free time. It’s called escape from the Germans. The idea was to not get caught by the Germans trying to find and kill the Jews. The Jewish people are even scared of their own guards, hoping they’re not bored, or having a bad day. Hoping that they won’t shoot the common people for their own amusement. And when people got sick, you just had to wait for them to die.

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