In the book "Farewell to Manzanar", by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and
             the book "March to Freedom: A Memoir of the Holocaust" by Edith Singer we
             discuss the ways they lived their life in concentration camps during the
             war. Keeping in mind both concentration camps are different. We will look
             at "Life" before and after the war as Jeanne and Edith both encounter
             In the beginning at Auschwitz, the concentration camp consisted of
             only women in the camp that was separated by the fittest. The young girls
             who were physically developed and looked older along with women who were 45-
             50 years old had a chance to live. The rest of the women (Old ladies,
             pregnant women, babies and girls too young) were all sent to the gas
             chamber and cremated. (25) At Auschwitz the women slept on wooden bunk
             beds. They had no pillows, no mattresses and no blankets. The bunk beds
             were three levels high and it was fifteen females per level. They all had
             to sleep in one direction as there was no room to move around. (35)
             Jeanne, in "Farewell to Manzanar", explains she and her family were able to
             all live together. They were not separated by women only and no one was
             killed due to age or gender. They lived in a barracks as well, but their
             living space consisted of two 16'x 20' rooms (about a size of a living room)
             for 12 people. They also had an oil stove for heat and one bare bulb
             hanging from the ceiling for light. Jeanne and her family were issued steel
             army cots for sleeping, 2 brown blankets, and some mattress covers for each
             Their daily food supply in either camp wasn't too appealing. Singer
             explains when she got to Auschwitz; they would hardly get any food. The
             women in the camp were poorly fed, always starving. She recalls a moment
             where she was waiting in line to get a bowl of soup. "Which part of the
             soup will I get?" She says, "Will it be from the top of the kettle and very
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