Deportations throughout Europe

• Nazis invaded other countries to get Jews.
• They did not know where they were going, or what would happen to them when they got off the train.
• Agnes an 11 year old girl from Czechoslovakia, wrote “Later we were moved and driven into railway wagons the sort that transport animals which were part of a long train. Some of the wagons were open topped, some closed.”
• There were 70-80 people in each train car.
• They traveled for days without food or water.
• The deportation throughout Europe started in August of 1941.
• The deportations around Europe ended on May 8th 1945.
• Moshe, aged 17, from Hungary then explains that " The doors were shut leaving us almost in darkness. The grills too were closed to prevent escape. Air entered only through the cracks. So we traveled for 24 hours without food or water. We were hungry and thirsty. But the desire and hope to see our families made us forget everything else."