Letter To Ellie Analysis

To whoever soldier that reads this:

You might not want to hear what I am going to tell you, or if you tell Hitler, you will be shot. However, I want you to read carefully. It will be hard to keep this to yourself, or maybe it won’t be. I’m a friend of Ellie, and I want to tell you what I faced and what you and others have put us through by putting us into concentration camps.

The experience at camp is not how one would want to think. One would think that going to a camp would be an exciting time to spend with family, perhaps in a tent, roasting marshmallows on an open flame, and to get away from the bustling world that is our community. However, it isn’t. I felt as if I’m always being watched by you, each and every second of the day, not allowed to read books, where you would see them being burned in a fiery pit in the in the center of the ghetto, have what we witnessed to ourselves, and die a slow, miserable death. I had to live in fear along with my friend Ellie, and we can even see the distress of Mrs. Schachter separated from her husband, and older son. We tried to deny the truth, but it’s already done to us. …show more content…
I felt lied to. The betrayal that I felt can be seen within the community of us Jews, and when I thought that I can trust what you were saying, that we will be safe from the war, but instead, I had to walk to our death, literally. Walking into the flames into our death is a slow way to die, and I just wished that it would have been over. I’m tired of seeing my people, who I can even call family, to die this way, starvation, being shot, and just murdering our children for no absolute reason. I hate to see my family going on with life with such terror and each day living in