David's Journey To A Concentration Camp

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David followed a man’s instructions and escaped a concentration camp. He was told to go to Salonica to get aboard a ship and go to Denmark. He arrived in Italy first. While he was in Italy, he carefully planned out what he was going to do and decided to go into town to look for food and find information. He realized that people notice him doing strange things they were not used to seeing, and feared that they would take him back to the concentration camp so, he went north, up the mountain slope. Once David reached the top, he found out that it was a large cliff with a sea below. He dropped his compass by accident, and it fell into the sea but, he knew where he was going so he kept going. On the way, he saved a girl who was trapped in a shed

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