“ I won’t let the nazis take me” By Kirstin O’Neill 1938, I was transferred to a orphanage. I stay here with 100 jewish girls that have been staying here for 18 months waiting the war out. I got taken from my parents when I was young and have not seen them sense. The director of the orphanage announced that the Nazis might carry out a raid on the orphanage. They will take anyone that looks sixteen or older.I look sixteen i know they’ll take me. I’m too tall for my age,they have no proof of my real age.I told myself i need to leave. The summer of 1939, I saw the german army vehicles roaring in. “I won't let the Nazis take me”!. I talk to my friend and she agreed upon that she looks sixteen and also have no papers of how old she is. We set a plan to escape we climbed out the second- floor …show more content…
I walked up the mountain to my soon to be haven. I kept climbing in the Alps the temperature was dropping. I really needed to get across the mountain before i froze to death. I told myself i'm so close.Just as I was about there I heard gunfire.I scrambled to a vantage point and felt my heart sink. The germans set up machine-guns nest at the mountains. I had to find another route. I found out that route was patrolled by the german.I can see switzerland it’s right there I can’t give up now I told myself. I was weak I haven't ate in a couple of days, my body ached from frigid conditions. I felt panicky. I met a small group of refugees that were carrying a bundle on their backs. The leader of the group told me that there no way you can get into switzerland we tried. I was crushed I walked all this way, all that begging and stealing from gardens … for what? I was tired and cold and hungry I turned around and hiked back down the mountain with no goal other than to survive. I felt anxious and lost in days following May
Summary: "The Cage" by Ruth Minsky Sender is a book about a teenage girl who was separated from her mother and brothers when the nazis captured them and sent them to a concentration camp. While she was in the concentration camp, she got sick and one of the Nazi guards took her to a hospital, but they had to go througgh several hospitals because they didn't take jews. After her operation, the doctor had to teach her how to write with her left hand because she couldn't write with her right hand. A russian commander helped her out by giving her food and baths, and she gave her a job that wasn't as hard as the other "prisoners" had. She lived off her mother's quote, "When there is life, there is hope." She believed that and she got through the
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
cold, harsh, wintry days, when my brothers and sister and I trudged home from school burdened down by the silence and frigidity of our long trek from the main road, down the hill to our shabby-looking house. More rundown than any of our classmates’ houses. In winter my mother’s riotous flowers would be absent, and the shack stood revealed for what it was. A gray, decaying...
A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal is a memoir about his time as a Jewish child in multiple ghettos and death camps in and around Germany during World War II. The author shares about his reunions with family and acquaintances from the war in the years between then and now. Buergenthal wished to share his Holocaust story for a number of reasons: to prevent himself from just being another number, to contribute to history, to show the power and necessity of forgiveness, the will to not give up, and to question how people change in war allowing them to do unspeakable things. The memoir is not a cry for private attention, but a call to break the cycle of hatred and violence to end mass crimes.
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The year is 1944, and you are a Jewish teenager. You are trapped in a Jewish concentration camp called Auschwitz. You know that it is one of the biggest killing centers for the Holocaust, but you are praying that American soldiers rescue you before you die. You are surrounded by other people, some you know and some you don’t. You were seperated from your family years ago, not knowing where they are now. You try not to accept the fact that they are most likely dead, but there isn’t much of a chance that they survived. Food doesn’t come to you often, so you have lost a lot of weight. You are very weak and it is hard for you to stand up due to your legs aching. The memories of what has happened and what is still to come will never leave your mind. Your best friend was killed right in front of you, and the only reason
Most often, hunting is defined as a sport; occasionally hunting will become a necessity for survival. However, there are those who hunt for a different prize, a Nazi. While numerous Nazis were prosecuted in Nuremberg, some managed to escape to sympathetic countries. Nearly seventy years after World War II has ended there are still those who wish to bring escaped Nazi’s to justice. Although some would wish to continue the search, the remaining Nazi’s living in secrecy should not be hunted down and prosecuted because it benefits no one and is best left alone.
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“When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” written by Judith Kerr, is a heartwarming tale of a young German girl named Anna, who must flee her home country before Hitler is elected. The book is a reflection on the author’s own life, and was published in 1971 when her son, after watching the Sound of Music, commented “now we know what it was like for mummy as a little girl!” Kerr wanted him to know what it was actually like, and so, wrote this novel. The book gives a distinct perspective on the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany and the experience of being a refugee, reflecting the Judith Kerr’s positive feelings about her own experience. The story begins in Berlin, Germany, March 1933, where Anna is living with her parents and her older brother, Max.
One cold, snowy night in the Ghetto I was woke by a screeching cry. I got up and looked out the window and saw Nazis taking a Jewish family out from their home and onto a transport. I felt an overwhelming amount of fear for my family that we will most likely be taken next. I could not go back to bed because of a horrid feeling that I could not sleep with.
My legs ache from this long, treacherous hike. As I walk up the rocky, steep trail, my feet start to slip, but I regain balance before I fall. I shiver from the extremely cold temperatures, and my body starts to go numb. Soon I realize, my body can not take this hike for much longer. When I find a nice place to rest and make camp, I pray that there are no bears or other predators that are looking for a feast. Just as I was about to get some sleep, I hear a loud noise, coming from the mountains. I look over and see an avalanche coming down straight towards me. I grab all my stuff and start running the other way, trying my hardest to get away from the rocks tumbling towards me. This extreme place is located in the Rocky Mountain Range, and is the highest point in Colorado and the rocky mountain range.Mount Elbert has an impact on animal's, temperature, and the steepness and extremeness of the mountain.
This memoir, which sits on the library shelf, dusty and unread, gives readers a view of the reality of this brutal war. So many times World War II books give detail about the war or what went on inside the Concentration Camps, yet this book gives insight to a different side. A side where a child not only had to hide from Nazi’s in threat of being taken as a Jew, but a child who hid from the Nazi’s in plain sight, threatened every day by his identity. Yeahuda captures the image of what life was like from the inside looking out. “Many times throughout the war we felt alone and trapped. We felt abandoned by all outside help. Like we were fighting a war on our own” (Nir 186). Different from many non-fiction books, Nir uses detail to give his story a bit of mystery and adventure. Readers are faced with his true battles and are left on the edge of their
The autobiography book, “The Diary of a Young Girl”, is a collection of Dutch diary entries authored by Anne Frank, a 13-year-old Jewish girl who lived through the atrocities of the Anti-Semitist German Nazi Regime. Beginning on June 14, 1942, the diary, which Anne named “Kitty”, vividly depicts fear-filled stories of the Franks and other Jews in evading racial annihilation. Besides the stories of war, the world-renown personal account narrates a teenage girl’s blossoming and her search for identity, love, and acceptance. The entries end abruptly on August 1, 1944, signifying the Gestapo’s capture of the Frank family and all the other residents of the Secret Annexe, but despite the impermanence of Anne’s life, her legacy endures