Sender’s memoir, “The Cage” characterizes the oppressed lives of the Jews during World War 2. This memoir helped readers further understand the pain and suffering of the Jews because the author wrote this based on experience. The lives of the Jews were disheartening in these 4 years. During World War 2, the Jews were often in a state of poverty because of lack of employment, and that it is very difficult to support a family with just bread and soup. One would notice that the ghetto that the Jews inhabit during the war was very disturbing and that it is a frenzy of hysteria. They also suffered from a disease called tuberculosis, just like Ruth’s brother, Labiele. This disease continues to spread all over the ghetto and no one can prevent it because there was an insufficient amount of doctors and medicine in the ghetto. Which means most of the sick people would die from the disease because the medicines needed for treatment was so scarce. The Jews were on constant surveillance by the German soldiers with their armed rifles and they prevented the Jewish children from receiving education by removing the schools. The Germans subjugated the Jews into sewing “coats for Germans to wear at the front, to keep them warm so they stay healthy and kill, kill, kill!” (Sender 26).
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