A Story : A Short Story

Lola’s mother worked as a seamstress for the Germans during World War Two and had a special pass to leave the ghetto. One day, on the Jewish holiday of Purim, she left the ghetto to walk to work. Lola’s mother and three other Jewish seamstress’s were murdered by a German Police officer even though they had the special pass. Lola was left with just her grandmother. Knowing that the Nazis were going to kill all of the Jews, Lola’s grandmother had to come up with a way to keep Lola safe from the Nazis.

“Boys, I think we can save your mother,” the man started. “Father… err, what’s your name again?”

Her whole world was crashing down. It what seemed like only a split second, her best friend’s father had been condemned to death. Someone who she considered to be like a father was going to be taken away, ripped away from her.

He walked to his mother and asked “Would you be happy if I was strong enough to protect you”

There were a tremendous amount of inspiring changes made to prevent the Holocaust of ever happening again. Reading the stories of survivors was astonishing and shocking to believe that one person could cause such inhumane destruction. I have been taught the events and cruelties of the Holocaust. I have read and learned many things about it. But, every time I research deeper into it, I learn something new every time. This novel was aspiring, moving and sorrowful. It captured details of the Holocaust that I never knew about. Trying to imagine being in their shoes is incomprehensible to the mind. I did not have any complications on accompanying research for this paper and I enjoyed gaining more knowledge of this distraught event in

"Quickly get dressed, run to the basement and wait there with your brother. Your father and I shall be down there any moment. " Maria, her mother, shook her forcefully. Her voice filled with anxiety and fear. Her body tense with shock. Zofia

When Ruthie and Ms. Rose arrived at the hospital Ruthie’s father was waiting for them. Ruthie’s father was a tough, but

The closet door creaked open to reveal the pale and frail girl, curled in a ball, her cheeks wet and hair a mess. Margot’s hands, which were clenched into tight fists, were a raw red color from beating the unyielding door, and dry sobs wracked her whole body. If possible, her dull blue eyes were duller than before. “Margot?” one of the girls cried out softly.

Zack reached down and pulled the handle. He had to use his shoulder to get the door open. He gritted out a cry of pain as he got out and leaned against one of Monty’s cars. Tina managed to scoot out and hit the pavement. She looked over at Garrett to see his full attention was on the car in front of him. Zack managed to get the backseat opened and ushered Tina inside first. He crawled in after her and pulled the door closed. “I’m getting the two of them to the hospital. Move to block him in. Cops are on the way,” the driver said over a radio. A couple of other voices came back over the radio with a ‘Roger that’ and then they were off.

suddenly she heard loud cracks and bangs, so loud they were almost breaking her eardrums Then

But then she heard footsteps upstairs when she got to the room she saw 4 military men standing then BOOM Valentina got smacked in the head with a gun. When she woke up she was shivering and was wet that’s when SPLASH they dropped cold water on her. They opened the cage and got her out and took her to the chief. Then she saw Angel and Jose tied she tried to get loose from the men that were grabbing her arms as tight as they could. When she started walking she saw a family being tortured that’s when Valentina bit on of the men in his hand, when she got loose she started running toward her brothers but something stopped her by the hair and it was the CHIEF. Valentina was in front of her parents killers she spitted the CHIEF in the face and Valentina recived a slap. The CHIEF told his men “Look her up tomorrow morning she's not gonna be in this camp site anymore.” Then Valentina started to get worried she didn't know what they were going to do with her brothers. They threw Valentina in the cage but she wasn’t alone. When she turned there was a girl and told Valentina “Hi my name is Belinda what's yours?”, when Valentina introduced herself and told Belinda why she was here, Belinda told her “Do you wanna escape and help your brothers.” Valentina said “Yes but how are we going to escape,” “Well espece in the middle of the night” Belinda said. When it was the middle of the night Belinda had a

Helen L. was the seventh of ten children born to loving parents in a prominent Czechoslovakian family. As a child, she lived in Jewish community although she received a public education. Around 1940, the Hungarian Nazis, who were similar to German Nazi’s, began to occupy the community in which she lived. The Nazi’s slowly began to take control of the Jewish people. First, they occupied and took over Jewish businesses such as that of her fathers. Later, they removed Jewish children like Helen from school. Eventually, they broke apart families as they emptied the towns of the Jewish people and brought them to concentration camps as to enact the “final solution.” In the interview, Helen tells of how her father and several brothers were shot and

He turned and looked at the group once but all he could see was her. He gasped at the overwhelming pain in his chest and explainable longing for her. They walked in and undressed. They were told that they were going to be taking a shower. Some of them cheered but Maria knew better. She caught a glimpse of William. She was so used to the guards having stone cold straight faces but his expressed sadness and pain. She knew that she was about to meet her creator. She was corralled into the large concrete room with hundreds of others and the officers stepped out and locked the doors. Maria just stood in the middle of it all and took it all in. It’s all that she could bring herself to do. Chaos broke out when the gas started to fill the air. People were trying to beat against the doors and scratching the walls until their finger nails bled or they fell to their

She was so amazed, that then she picked up the whole table then set it back down. She thought it was so cool what she had done then decided to make an escape plan for her and all the other kids that were there.

After a little more than a year living in Auschwitz, the mom couldn’t take anymore. She didn’t want to leave in isolation anymore so she started to plan to leave the city.