Short Story: Taken Away

It was an experience will never forget. We were sent to concentration camps far from our home. They were located in the middle of nowhere. The camps were surrounded in fences and barbed wire so we couldn't escape. Jews were not allowed to set foot outside at night.

I had trained as a tailor and had left home before we were deported, when I went to work four miles away on a ranch. It was taken over by the SS, so suddenly I found myself working for them. In May 1943 they lined us up one day and told us to empty our pockets. If they found even a single zloty in anyone’s pocket, they were shot on the spot. We were transported to Majdanek, which was only 19 miles away – a torture camp in the true sense of the word. For 500 metres there were just ditches full of bodies, legs, heads. We were deported to Auschwitz four weeks later. We arrived in the early morning and they gave us a bed, a real shower, they cleaned us well with disinfectant and shaved us. After that they gave us striped uniforms and tattooed us. I was given the number 128164 on my left arm and from that point on I was a number, no longer a name.

When it was 1944 I was 15 years old. When I was 15 years old, the Nazi soldiers rounded up all the jews including me and my family and then took us to a ghetto. Some of my friends were taken too. When we arrived, I noticed the ghetto had very tall walls that had broken glass on the top. After everyone was inside, the gates were closed which meant we couldn’t go out. Then we were taken to a little room that already had a family in it. It looked like they barely came too. The first few days they would give us a little bit of food and the conditions were not as bad. A few days later

The American dream is most definitely attainable in the United States, present day. Mike Tyson is a man of great strength, he his best known for his gift of boxing; which is a symbol of America, strength. Mike Tyson was able to do things that people believed was impossible. With his skills he was able to go to the heavyweight world championship 4 times in a row. Some say that America can achieve the impossible such as the wars we fought, down to the Miracle US hockey olympic game beating the “Red Army”.

After that was finished, I was sent with a group of prisoners away from the others. I asked a soldier where we were going, and he told me that if I asked him again, my head would no longer be resting on my shoulders. We were marched for around an hour to a group of tents away from the main camp. They told us that this was where we were staying, which was odd. Everyone else was in cabins, while we were given tents. We thought maybe they ran out of room, but then we noticed some of the cabins looking empty and lifeless, while we could clearly see our other comrades inside warm cabins. We soon realized that everyone in the tents was jewish, and found out that the germans were putting us here because we were

My grandma said that when she heard the bomb sirens in Darmstadt, she thought it was the end. The bombings lasted five months and her parents lost their lives. My grandmother and her sister were just going from shelter to shelter waiting for the bombings to end. In February of 1944, the bombings

Mrs. Rita Weiss, a Holocaust survivor, loose 48 members of her family in Auschwitz during the first week of June 1944, including her mother, father, and brother. She was the only one who survived. The day she arrived to the concentration camp she asked one of the guards: “Is it true that we will meet our parents and family on the weekend?” “Ha, ha, ha” the guard replies, “Who told you that? Parents? Family? Do you see those chimneys? Do you see the smoke? They are already in heaven.” (Yad Vashem)

After reading all the research about the Holocaust, I thought to myself I can't imagine being in a concentration camp and having my family there too. I am so happy to be living in America today because no matter what color skin you are or religion you are we can all get along together. I really hope this never happens again. Just make sure that every morning you wake up and appreciate the freedom you

The day that the Warsaw ghetto uprising happened. I’m now 12 and I’m slowly understanding more about what’s happening in the ghettos. Some of the Jewish men and women are smuggling weapons and i'm not exactly sure why but I know it's for a good cause. After the uprising there were men and women being dragged out of their homes and shot in front of their children. There were whispers along the streets that the ghettos that took charge in the revolt were burned down forcing the Jews out and the Germans killed over half of the people. That night i went underground with Adina without our parents knowing a man stood up on a wood table and shouted “We know this is defeat but are we willing to fight more or give up our lives to them?” There were people screaming “no this is our life!” Adina and I heard footsteps so we ran back to our house.

I imagined how uncomfortable and unfortunate the Ghetto was going to be because the population would increase as more Jews were being transported. My father demanded my siblings and I to pack clothes and significant supplies. I didn’t have much clothing in my closet, so I only packed 3 outfits, 2 pair of socks, 5 clean underwear and my running shoes. Attempting to think of anything significant that I would take I chose to snatch a black and white wrinkled picture of my family and a couple of snacks that were placed in the pantry. As hours passed, and my anxiousness grew, it was already the day I never thought would occur. The clock struck 4:00 and as we exited our house, all of our friends and neighbors exited as well forming a line towards the trains. As I looked back to see if there was anyone still coming out of there house, the corner of my eye captured two German officials dragging a teenager and his mom out of their house after they had been knocked out with the edge of an M1941 Johnson. There forehead had many wounds and bruises as if they were hit multiple times. I didn’t focus too much on it because my focus was already mainly on remaining next to my

This was my last night in Sighet. In the morning, the Nazi’s are coming to transfer us to Auschwitz because of the “war.” I, unlike everyone else, knew something else was going on. Im not sure what but it isn’t because of the war. I was honestly just worried about how my little brother is going to handle himself. He knows to be strong when times are tough but he may not be tough enough.

To begin, Auschwitz was one of the major concentration camps run by the Nazi’s the Holocaust. At Auschwitz, the Nazi’s were able to murder over a million Jews in gas chambers without detection for most of the Holocaust. Thus, I am going to tell the stories of those who survived Auschwitz in order to provide remembrance and to highlight what I am learning in class. This is due to the fact that many people do not realize that what happened at Auschwitz was horrific. For example, people saw their family die right in front of them, people were beaten for no apparent reason, and people were striped of their identity. Also, by telling the stories of the survivors I am allowing the reader to remember that the Holocaust affected so many people and

One day we woke up to guards brutally pounding on our door. I was the first one up, but my dad didn’t let me open the door. When he went to the door the guard grabbed him and pushed him outside. The guards rushed inside and told us all to get outside immediately. We went outside the nazis made us start walking to the train station. Once we arrived at the station the nazis made all the jews cramp into small cattle carts. This process took about two hours. Once in awhile you would hear gun shots. That was usually the officers shooting at a Jew who was trying to escape. After all the Jews got on the train my family and I prayed that we would all stay together. After what it seemed like forever we arrived in a town called Rzeszow. There My family and the rest of the Jews were forced to live in a ghetto. The ghetto was small but at least I was able to stay with my family.

I am very excited about learning how to write properly like a Forensic Accountant. I was born in Leon, Nicaragua, which is in Central America; however, my ancestors were from Spain. Most of my family members are farmers and practice either law or medicine. I am probably the only one that took on a career that requires to be very skilled in math with an investigative approach. Sometimes, I think, I may have acquired an investigative mindset from my father, who enjoys the practice of criminal law. He used to say that being a lawyer was like being a detective.

Lying, it’s everywhere. Almost 60% of most adults can’t go ten minutes without telling a lie. Some people lie to protect other people, while others lie to benefit themselves like maintaining the perfect image they care so much about. However, lying is completely unjustified unless you’re protecting yourself or someone else from danger. This idea can be further proven with evidence from a variety of articles.