Creative Writing: I Won 'T Let The Nazis Take Me'

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“ 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

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