Personal Narrative Essay: The Holocaust

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I was fast asleep at home in a small town called Belarus, I kept waking up throughout the night from loud sounds of wind clashing with the leaves on the tree’s, in my mind I kept thinking something bad was going to happen, most of the Nazi’s were taking over Germany and invading most Jews house. I thought to myself if I pretend to not be a Jew I might not be put in a concentration camp, but then a thought to myself “what’s the point of doing that” they’re going to see me with my parents that look very much Jewish. And as Hitler said “being a Jew isn’t your religion it’s your blood”, I forced myself to stop thinking about everything, closed my eyes and forced myself to sleep.
2/7/1944
I woke up in a carriage with my parents nowhere to be seen, I immediately started to panic and cry, in my mind I told myself “I knew we we’re going to get caught, it was only a matter of time”. I was squashed up with a bunch of
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I went to the section one of the officers put me in, sat down and thought to myself “what’s the point of living like this, we don’t deserve this, my parents didn’t deserve to have their only child taken away from them and probably their lives too”. Suicide had crossed my mind, I kept trying to think of other solutions that would help me in this situation but nothing crossed my mind. I stayed in the same corner and didn’t move.

2/6/1944
It’s already been three days I haven’t eaten any food or had any water to quench my thirst, I was a mess, I had dirt all over my close and the only things I could hear were peoples scream from death and children and women crying, begging for freedom and food. I finally snapped in my mind, I saw that one of the officers had left his gun shotgun on the bench next to my section, I had sprinted as fast as I could took the gun, put it too my head, looked the officer straight in the eyes and pulled the

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