Relocation Camp Attitude

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What would it be like to be sent to a concentration or relocation camp during World War II, would you be able to keep a positive attitude. Well that can depend, if you look at life in a very positive and bright way overall then it might be difficult but you can find the bright side to a difficult situation. For some it might be easier to just lose hope, and to not look on the bright side. Some people however have a strong will and they try their best to look at something in a positive way or they try to find a positive outcome to the situation. A question that should be asked is why? Why, should we have to live through these situations. Well if we didn't have these situations then no one would really know how lucky you are, or how much you can look for a bright or positive side. There are many examples of people that had a positive attitude or were looking for a positive outcome from a situation that have been in a difficult situation. An example is of a letter that Miss. Breed received from a Japanese-American girl that was sent to a relocation camp. In the letter that Louis wrote she tried to keep a positive attitude when …show more content…
Anne was taken to the concentration camp Auschwitz with her older sister Margot Frank. The two sisters escaped the immediate death sentence in Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen in Northern Germany. However their mother, Edith Frank, had remained at the death camp. Anne kept a diary of her life experiences and her emotions towards these experiences. Anne started her diary in the year 1942 when she was thirteen years old. The Frank family had to go into hiding in an attic and she tried her best to be positive. On a plain white wall she pasted pictures and postcards from her collection so that the room wasn't so gloomy and boring. When Anne was taken to Auschwitz with her sister she was most definitely scared but she tried her best to stay

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