Outside Reading #6

In the last part of my book Corrie Ten Boom and her sister, Betsie, had to switch to a new camp. The reason the Germans needed to move there prisoners was because the front was approaching the camp. The new camp that Corrie and her sister were sent to is Ravensbruck. The conditions at Ravensbruck are almost the same as before. They are harsh with fleas in almost every one's bed and nine people are sharing a bed that was originally designed for four people. In all there was about 1400 people per room. A quote that shows some of these conditions is, "Fleas!" I cried, "Betsie, the place is swarming with them" (197 Ten Boom)! When living at this camp the guards forced the prisoners to perform intense labor. An example is "The work at Siemens, however, was sheer misery. Betsie and I had to push a heavy handcart to a railroad siding where we unloaded large metal plates from a boxcar and wheeled them to a receiving gate at the factory" (200 Ten Boom). Also when at this new camp Betsie gets extremely sick. She reaches a fever of 104 and goes to the hospital. She apparently got no medical treatment when there. Although she felt much better being someplace warm and having to do no work. When she gets realesed her illness returns. It starts to take a big hit on her physical state and she ends up dieing at the concentration camp. "For there lay Betsie, her eyes closed as if in sleep, hr face full and young" (219 Ten Boom).