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Transportation to camps often took days. Individuals, families and whole communities together with their personal belongings were packed into cattle trucks. They were locked in and transported for days. They had no information as to where they were going, the length of the journey or what would happen to them when they eventually arrived at their destination.The conditions on the journey were unhygenic. The trains were locked from outside so that no Jews could escape. There were no toilets or any clean food or water. Many young kids, the old and the sick would die because of the unhygenic conditions during the journey. Those who did survive were severely traumatised by the experience.
Eventually, after days of travelling in the most cramped conditions, the railway carriages arrived at a camp. The doors of the carriages would be pulled open the Nazis made the place in such a way that the Jews would not suspect what was going on. Classical Music was being played. The Nazis hired some Jews to help the other Jews to get them down of the train. The Nazis gave the Jews a place that they never have seen before.