Creative Writing: The Holocaust

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Not much has been going on at camp. Every week a group of people get taken away, and they don’t come back. All the adults say that they are taken to the gates of hell. Brother told me that the people were taken away from Auschwitz and reunited with their families in another place far from here. Mama came here with us, but left us to go to another camp. She told us that we would be reunited in the other place. I believed them with all of my heart.
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“Rosa!” yelled out my brother.
“James… when will we see Mama again?” I asked him. I knew he had something else to tell me, but I still asked. And every time I did, I got the same response. “Soon.” he whispered to me holding back his tears. “Do you miss Mama?” I asked him. What else would an eight

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