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Essay On Elly Kamm

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Shoes come in different styles, materials, colors, and sizes but they all represent the different individuals wearing them.
Imagine that I am a pair of blue shoes to a little boy named John in 1942. My responsibility as a shoe was to lead John to interesting new places he can call adventure. I’ve been there with him through thick and thin but that was until he was taken away by the police on to the cattle cars. We didn't know where we were going but ended up in a place called a concentration camp. This adventure was not an exciting one but I saw soldiers separating John from his parents and eventually they separated me from John. I was thrown away with all these other shoes who also led their owners to a strange “shower” that was rumored to have led them to no longer be with us anymore. All of the shoes that have been thrown away feel the same pain and we wait for our owners to come back so we can be reunited.
Elly Kamm believed that her life was “beautiful” and she lived a very “spoiled” life until she arrived at the ghettos in 1942. As people were being taken away on to the trains, Elly Kamm was about to lose her mother and brother so she volunteered to leave with her family. Her mother told her to go back home to get another pair of shoes for the trip. Her mother and little brother …show more content…

Shoes are very important to people because they provide protection and lead us to adventure. In the Holocaust Museum, there are over 25,000 shoes that remain from the ruins of the concentration camps. Everyone who sees these shoes are left with profound thought because every one of them has the imprint of the individuals who once wore them. All of these shoes help us imagine who may have been wearing them at one point and we are reminded of those who died. Each shoe at one point had an individual like you and me that once guided them to new places but now we must remember each individual so we can tell the adventure that their shoes once guided them through

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