In this excerpt from "The Night" Elie Wiesel's is setting the story on the cattle train in which the jews from Sighet were transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Wiesel and his family were transported, along with 80 more people. There was little to no space in the train, so they had to take turns to sit. They were traveling under the scorching sun with no water to calm their thirst.
The skeletal system works as a support structure for your body. It gives the body its shape, allows movement, makes blood cells, provides protection for organs and stores minerals. The skeletal system is also called the musculoskeletal system.
