How do the Jews react to Madame Schacters behavior?

Answer 1

The Jews on the train are initially disturbed by Madame Schacter's behavior, as she becomes hysterical and starts screaming about seeing fire and flames. They try to calm her down, but when her prophecies come true, they become fearful and start to distance themselves from her. Eventually, they tie her up and gag her to stop her from causing panic among the passengers.

Answer 2

Other people in the cattle cart (80 others) had, at first, thought she was saying it becasue she had really seen fire. There wasn't any. They all thought she was just dehydrated, hungry, couldn't get enough air, was thirsty, etc. but the screaming anout the fire continued. Eventually, they gag her and tie her up, but that doesn't stop her. She continues to scream. So, the people resorted to hitting her to make her quiet. The blows were so hard they could of killed her.

Answer 3

Initially, some put a damp cloth on her brow, to calm her down. Then when that did not work they grew angry, uncomfortable, irritable with her madness and began to beat her and gagged her with a cloth even, in hopes to get her to stop her cries of insanity.

Answer 4

The Jewish people mostly think she's insane. Her son is terrified, and a few women try to calm her down. At first some people look out the window to see if she's telling the truth, but no one sees anything, so they regard her as crazy. Many of them are scared by her screaming about fire, and it seems to them a simple solution to think her crazy. They come up with ideas that she didn't get enough water and is hallucinating. Elie writes that their nerves had reached a breaking point and their very skin was aching. It came to a point where they bound and gagged the woman. When she broke free and started screaming again, they were annoyed, and not only gagged her again, but hit her, too. The last time she tells them to look at the flames, they see the crematorium, and flames in the sky.

Basically, they treat her as though she is completely crazy, but feel scared by her strange yelling.

Answer 5

They angrily tell her to be quiet and when she doesn't, they gag, tie, and beat her up to make her be quiet. They are scared because the German officials might hear her and they will get in trouble.

Answer 6

At first they believed her screams of "Fire!"

Then they beat her.

Then they gagged her.

Eventually, she, and her son, were killed by German soldiers.

Answer 7

they bound and gagged her because she was disturbing theeir sleep with the fire and flames she said she sees outside.

Answer 8

They get very angry and beat her because she keeps on saying - long before they reach Auschwitz - that she sees fire.