Personal Narrative Essay: Why Are We In A Train

When I entered the cattle car the guard turned to me and said, “i was too watch the jews. And if I didn’t I would be executed.” When the guards loaded the last few jews they closed the gate, locked, and nailed it closed. I felt nervous and I thought to myself, “Why are we in a train?” I asked Larry where we were going. He didn't know where we were going. It started to get darker and darker so I tried staying awake and It was hard keeping an eye on the jews. Later that night I heard someone talking about the train. They said, “I asked one of the guards, before we got on the train, where we were going and he said that we were going to a camp that will keep safe from the bombs.” I thought to myself that can't be right because we didn't hear any bombs or gunshots anywhere. It started to get suspicious. I just wanted to go to sleep so I did. …show more content…
I got up and they were stopping for coal. So I looked around and we were in the middle of nowhere. I heard shouting that we were going to be killed. I thought to myself and I said, “ they're going to kill us. Why are we still in this train. So I told everyone to run their lives off. I jumped out and everyone darted into the forest that was on the other side of the river that was on the other side of the tracks. The guards yelled, “ we have escapees. Don't kill them, keep them alive, we can't make all the other jews scared and let them run away. We need to get them to hurry. I ran so hard that I started to get light headed so I was looking around for a tree that I could climb. I kept going until I found a tree that was filled with leaves. I thought to myself, “I could hide in here and they wouldn't see me because of the leaves. I finally got to the top and I heard the guards with dogs pass me. I felt relieved that they didn't see me. So I climbed down the tree and started to move towards the opposite