Concentration Camp Dialectical Journal

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Words cannot even begin to put into words the pain, and anguish that each and every person felt while being held in a concentration camp. In this book, so many suvviors gave their account of their first experience at the camp, and from the very beginning the memories are haunting. Martin was just a mere eight years old when he was taken to Skarzysko-Kamiene. When he arrived at his camp he was instantly separated from his family and everyone he knew. “ The first thing I saw when I got these was beating and shooting. From the moment I got to the camp, I did not think that I was going to survive. I saw so many people dying. I somehow think that in that moment we were all made inhuman.” Almost all the testimonies told of being separated form

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