In 1933 the Nazi soldiers killed over 6 million Jews in the camps while only 304,000 Jews escaped or otherwise survived the camps. In the camps, people were too afraid to speak up to the Nazis and fight back. How do these ideas connect? Cynthia Ozick purposefully has her characters practice silence in “The Shawl” to show readers how important silence is to survival in the concentration camps. For example, in the passage it states that Magda dies because she yells out “Maaaaa”(Ozick pg5). This explains why they had to keep silence in the camps because if they did not the Nazi soldiers would shoot.This relates to why people had to keep quiet in the camps because it tells the reader the punishment of what happened. Not only did Jews have to
