A holocaust survivor recently published a brief, previously untold account of her struggle in Nazi occupied Europe and Auschwitz - can anyone give context to the events?

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http://buffalonews.com/2018/01/27/holocaust-survivor-breaks-decades-long-silence-to-share-her-horrific-story/

E.g., why did Nazis make people run? The account makes it sound like a test of fitness to work in camps... but it could have just been sadism. Or how and why were there toddler-centric ghettos?

Everything about this paragraph is difficult to comprehend:

While I was in Auschwitz, I saw too many things. Some people couldn’t take it anymore and ran into the electrified fence to kill themselves. They just went up in flames. I saw people coming into Auschwitz from different places who were sent to take a shower and were killed. Then they took them to the crematorium. I met a boy who was watching the crematorium where he had seen his parents die. He was hoping they would come and bomb the place. He told me to come to that spot once a week and he’d throw me a package. Shoes or clothes. Maybe they were from people they killed in the gas chamber, I don’t know.

stonedbearamerica

May I ask what about the passage is difficult to comprehend? I can try to find some sources to help but I'd line some clarification to make it easier.