This week in class we watched a short film that was about a women who suffered and survived the holocaust. During the movie she described many of the terrible things that happened to her and around her. She said some short stories that happened to her during her journey. She started with a story about how at one point all of the young men had to go and be soldiers. She said that her older brother died in the war. She said that the loss of her brother was probably the worst for her. She then talked about how she was separated from her mom and dad. She said that she was had just arrived at a camp where the stood in a line with her mom after being separated from her dad from getting off of the train that took them away from their homes. She stood in front of the soldier holding her mom’s hand. She said that the soldier asked her and her mom how old they were. she said that she and her mom told the soldier how old they were and he smacked their hands with a stick that he had causing them to go to different sides. They had to stand in lines. Then a cart came back. She said that she was on the cart when she jumped off to try to run to her mom but a man grabbed her and put her back on the cart. she said that he told her that she was too young to die. She said that that is where she stayed with her friends in the cart. she said that she never saw her mom or dad ever again. She talked about how she was transported all over with her friends. She said that she mad a bet with one of her friends who was her best friend. She said that she thought that the war was going to last about six months but her friend thought that it was going to last some years. She said that one day her friend was getting water. She said that she found out that they were now free so she went to go find her friend to tell her that they were free and that she had lost the bet. But she said that she found her friend lying on the floor dead. She said that the war was the worst thing that had happened in her life.
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