Analysis: The Day The Jews Were Saved

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The Day The Jews Were Saved
They were lost. They were scared. They had lost all hope for themselves. But little did they know the worst yet to come. Over eight million lives had been taken and only one third of the eight million survived the wretched twelve years of their imprisonment. The liberation of the concentration camps was soon to come. If you told the prisoners they were to be saved in a few days, they probably wouldn’t believe you. They had given up. They were drained of their strength, torn from their families, and stolen from their own lives. They had no control over themselves. Nothing mattered, anymore. But some were fortunate enough to be saved from this disaster.
The inmates were devastated from all of the hardships they were

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