This was the location of another concentratrion camp that Chana and her grandmother Bubbe were sent to. On the train ride to the camp, a woman on the train says they are going there "to work, to starve, to die" (183).  Although this is a fictional novel, it accurately depicts the horrific reality of concentration camps during the Holocaust. When they finally arrive, "the air was thick and sticky, the sky was unnaturally pink. We could smell something cooking, burning" (184).  During the Holocaust, German Nazis established camps in Poland where Jewish people were to be exterminated. This means that the smell of something burning was peoples' bodies being burned as a way to exterminate them and as a way for Nazis to hide all the evidence of their horrific actions. Chana, her grandmother Bubbe, and the others on the train were a very far way from home and the location of this camp made them more fearful of what they were about to endure.