Bianca's Blitzkrieg

"TWO GHETTOS were created in Sighet. A large one in the center of town occupied four streets, and other smaller one extended over several alleyways on the outskirts of town. The streets we live on, Serpent Street, was in the first ghetto. We therefore could remain in our house. But, as it occupied a comer, the windows facing the street outside the ghetto had to be sealed. We gave some of our rooms to relatives who had been driven out of their homes"(Wiesel 11).

Significance: I'm my American studies class, were reading Night by Ellie WieselIn. Based on the quote written above, i can connect the ghettos to today's world. Today, their are buildings that are run by the government for people that don't have the money to provide a home to their family. In the story, their is also buildings that are created by the Nazi government, for Jewish people to live in before they were shipped to concentration camps. The difference between the building that were run by the Nazi government was that they were in bad condition, while the ones today are in better conditions and are created to help families. In the story, living with random people or living in other peoples houses, was considered normal, while today it's not very common. The first chapter really explains the setting of the story, which is mainly the ghettos, where the Jews were put to live.