Concentration Camp Diary

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Abe and i met at the concentration camp. This happen whenever we were looking for our shoes, we were both trying to hurry up before someone steals them. We had to make a perfectly bed in a military manner. Which was impossible. Abe had her bed right next to mine, when i met her i felt a reason to stay strong she was my best friend and the only person I trusted. There were hundred of other prisoners there too. We were always starving the only thing the Kopo gave us was 10 ounces of bread and some coffee, if we were lucky we would get a thin slice of sausage with your bread. That was our breakfast and our dinner. Many people died because of starvation. Sometimes that kapos would push us around just to make us spill our food. Food would’ve spill …show more content…
If one of the prisoners tried to escape we had to stand up waiting at roll call place until he is retrieved. For their punishment they would hang them. After the hanging all the prisoners have to march in front of the gallows to look at the hanged prisoner, as a warning. The evening roll call is over. We ran in order to receive our “dinner” Therefor we would get some soup and a piece of bread. If we spilled some food or if our bread would fall on the ground we would have to eat it or the guards would take advantage of that and beat us to death. Abe would always be botherd from one of the kopos and she would always have to eat it from the ground.The kapos would always mistreat us really bad. In the evening we would return to our barrack. Sometimes the blockfuerher would be waiting for you and your comrades. The blockfuerher were criminals who decided who’ll live and who’ll die. Maybe they would let you rest until tomorrow morning. Sometimes they decided to mess with you and have some by making you exercise, run, jump, sing, dance and many stuff like that. There are five prisoners with you on bunk bed with only one blanket and if one of them moved all of the other ones had to follow. You are exhausted. Today you manage to

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