Carin : A Short Story : Carmin's Story

As my fifteen-year-old roommate falls to pieces, panic rises in my chest like a leaping flame. She lets out muffled screams and chilling sobs as she buries her face against the pillow. I kneel beside her and whisper reassurances. “You’ll be okay.” “No one will hurt you.” I pray she hears me but I know she doesn’t. She is trapped somewhere else - somewhere she revisits every day, like a bad song stuck in her head for life.

“5...4...3...2…1...and the winner is Brynn”, announced the referee as he walked Brynn to the middle of the mat and held her hand up in the air. Her component was still laying on the floor clutching his stomach. Like the sympathetic girl she has always been, Brynn helped the guy up and gave him some advice on how to feel better. After helping him she told him he fought great and gave him a light pat on the back. Then she went to her dad (Brice), older brother (Drake), and sensei (Greg) who congratulated her on the match. Greg gave Brynn her new belt which is a third degree black belt and treated the family out to Friendly’s then Carvel. After her long day Brynn went home, took a shower, and knocked out once she hit her king size mattress. The

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.

“On February 29, 1944 the Nazis invaded the Boom house. Six people escaped detection because of the secret room, but Corrie and her father, sisters, and brother were captured along with twenty five others. They were arrested for their work with the resistance.” “After the four months in prison, all the prisoners were told to pack their baggage and take the train. When they were about to board a train Corrie saw her sister Bestie and finally both met in railway station. They were taken to the labor camp so that they may work there. Life wasn’t easy in the labor camp. They had to work hard and punishment was severe. ” One day Betsie was cruelly beaten by a guard for not working hard, but she prayed for the guard that hurt her. Betsie had a

After over a month of recovery Rachel was ready to be sold again. They dressed her up in a blouse, a black skirt and heels. She was drugged, blindfolded, and loaded into a van. She woke up sometime later. She couldn’t see where she was, the windows were tinted. Finally the van stopped. The person sitting next to her took off her blindfold. The large bodyguard began to unbuckle his seat. Another large man opened the car door and pulled her out. The walked to the front door, the men on either side of her. The house towered in front of her. Walking up the steps to the large front door Rachel trembled with fear. She was so scared. She needed to be her best this time. She couldn’t get sent back again. The agency said that they never gave third chances and rarely second ones. They had told her that she was

One night, thoroughly past her bedtime, Georgiana crept stealthily downstairs to sneak a bite of pie, even though her mother would never approve. She immediately realized a heavy drape of desolation. The only noise was her heart beating to the rapid rhythm of the twitching fan. Georgiana thought that no one would be awake at one in the morning. She slipped through the doorway into the kitchen. For an instant, her heart stopped. A dreadful sight stood in her way. An innocent and isolated individual lay with his hand grasping for life, but it was already over. Taking a step back, she

This book is about the Ten Boom family and their Christian journey through the Holocaust in which they would hide jews inside their house. The setting begins in Haarlem, Holland, in 1937 and takes place in the Ten Boom residence. There are many people in the family. First there is Mama Ten Boom she died from a stroke and had tuberculosis(pg7), then there is Casper Ten Boom which is Corrie's father. He was a watchmaker his whole life. Betsie Ten Boom which is corrie's older sister. Then there is Corrie she is the narrator of her own autobiography and she is dutch. Corrie soon went to prison for having Jews in her house. Then the book ends with Corrie ten Boom’s death in Orange County, California on April

Three months later, David’s sister Rachel had knocked on our door asking if David was home. He had heard her voice and used all of his strength to break free of the annex he had been hiding in. He ran into the room and was horrified when he saw a skinny, beaten, broken girl standing in the doorway. She had been living in the Ghetto in Lodz, Poland. She told us how

Like every book, Sara Nomber-Przytyk shows a subject that is deep in their heart. In this case, the authors subject is her own personal story and experience in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. As the book begins to continue, Sara is exposed to starvation, anger, and death within Auschwitz. She continues to tell her story through urological events happening to hand around her. Nomber-Przytyk makes sure to not to leave anything out. She is sure to tell the brutality the Nazis had her go

The grey, concrete walls made goose-bumps appear on her arms. Because they were cold, not frightening she kept reminding herself. She had nothing to worry about. Walking slowly through security; metal detectors, search dogs, frisk searches, the whole lot. Walking out she had gained a feeling of somewhat relief. Finally, she had made it to the main quad. What would instil fear in anyone else excited her; she had arrived at her new job as a nurse, at Acacia Men’s Prison.

She struggled out of her restless sleep. Rolling on the ground she found herself trying to break free from the grasp of hate. On the cusp of barbarity, she finally woke. She rubbed her eyes awake and sat vigilant, isolated by her own thoughts. Iron bars, circling her cage, tainted the lively fragrance of spring.

It started raining yesterday on the trip here. The open wagon provided no cover, no comfort. What little things we had brought were soaked through. Mr. Avery, our driver, was a very harsh man. He gave no consolation or pity. Nothing but hate. A wicked old man he was. The wagon ride felt like torture. It was the longest four hours of my life. There was no conversation. Just Abrahams coughing, and my sobs, the baby didn’t cry, she didn’t smile either. Caleb tried to ask why we were so sad. I couldn’t muster the strength to answer. Poor boy. The second I stepped foot off that wagon and onto the dreaded ground of that farm I knew this was it, hell. Oh, I wanted to snap that woman's neck the second she struck Caleb. He’s just a boy. That woman, Ms. Ada Jaggs, was a witch in every sense of the word. And worst of all my husband and son will be separated from me while we are here.

Allie woke up and came to consciousness, elated to realize it was simply a nightmare. Her room was pitch black as she gazed around the walls of her room. Rain pounded against her window and thunder was booming off in the distance. A sharp crack of lighting lit her room. With the flash of light, Allie saw her mother covered in blood laid back in a chair across the room. She leaped out of bed to find help, only to see her blood stained father’s grinning face blocking the

Jeannine Burk was in danger and spent her childhood hiding from Nazis. One day when word had got around that Jews were in danger, Jeannine’s father took her on a street car to a house with people she didn’t even know to hide. This was the last time Jeannine saw her father. Jeannine hid in this house for 2 years. For this time she was mainly Occasionally, she was allowed to go outside and play but , only in the back yard.

In all those days people died and the car has turned into their bathroom smelling like feces and urine. The train only stopped two times. The first stop they were given water and the dead baby was taken away and the second stop the doors didn’t open. They arrived at the concentration camp, everyone was told to get out of the boxcars, and to go down a hill. Hannah went down the hill on her bad knee and cried out once. Fayge tried not to hit Hannah while going down the hill but she stumbled and rolled down the hill fast, and landed in a loud thud. Shmuel went to help Fayge and a soldier told them that men go to the left and women go to the right. A women that was a prisoner named blokova went up to the new Jews that came in and told them they were zugangi, which were newcomers and were the lowest of the low. Blokova wasn’t a Jew. The prisoner told them they had to obey the word schneli, which meant fast. Blokova told them to undress because they were going to shower. The women were not comfortable showering together. Hannah thinks that they are not in a shower, but in the gas chambers. The showers turn on and water came out not gas. After, they finished showering a soldier leads all the women to another room, so their hair can be shaved off. Hannah’s loses her memories about what she learned in her history class and she was also told that Rachel died on the trip to the camp because of breathing difficulties. Hannah gets scared