Personal Narrative: The Holocaust

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Today was the worst day ever! This morning when I got to school the other kids said that it was closed, for good. All because we were Jews. Everyone else was celebrating, but I was upset. I loved to read and learn, but they took that away from me. Later, the parks, swimming pools, libraries, and cinemas turned into "no Jews allowed" areas too. It felt like everything was being taken away from us, one by one. When I saw the Germans outside I was afraid, afraid that something might happen to my family. Everyone in the town was outside watching the Germans march into Poland. After watching them for a while, a women beside me said "The Nazis won't be so bad...I remember the Germans from World War 1. They were very nice people." But …show more content…

I can't beleive that they are marking us! Branding us like cattle! Another thing that was in the set o new rules was that all Jews had to be off the streets by 9:00pm. We don't have enough money to leave, but I don't know how long I can take this. Today my brother and my nephew showed up to my store, in secret so that the Nazis didn't see or hear them. After they helped with the shop I gave them 3 sacks of bread each. A while later, I asked my brother, Moshe, if he had any new news about the war. He said that he had heard that it's been 17 days since Germany invaded the Soviet union, and that Poland had been split right down the middle. The Soviet union invaded the east and Germany had the west. At this rate I think the war could go either way. Today the Nazis took all the rest of the Jews, including me, to a concentration camp while we were all at work. I was loaded onto a truck, and deported to the Plaszów Concentration Camp. When we all got off the truck we were ordered to take off all of our clothes and put on prisoner uniforms. After all of that, we were all marched to the camp's tailor shop by a kapo. A kapo was a prisoner that was put in charge of other prisoners by the Nazis, so they wouldn't have to deal with us all of the …show more content…

Three days prior to this move we were all starved and put on boxcars to decrease the number of people. In Trzebinia Concentration Camp our job was to move a bunch of rocks.I don't know what for, but everytime one of us stopped to take a breather that person would get beat up. Today when everyone went to roll call the Nazis told us that we had to walk all the way to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. The walk took about 12 days, I think, I lost count after a while. While we were on this dreadful march, I saw a boy, about my age, getting ready to calapse. I helped him walk for 2 days, but no one else wanted to help. On the last day an old man, who could barley walk himself, offered to help me carry the boy. Rumors were going around, in Dachau Concentration Camp, that the war was finally coming to an end. The camp was in chaos, some days we didn't even have role call. While everyone in the barracks, trying to sleep, we all heard the sound of explosions. They started shaking the barracks so, like all the other prisoners, I covered my head with my hands. In the morning, we all looked outside and saw American soldiers. Finally, we were

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