Personal Narrative: Holocaust Survivor

I am the LNC motto word learn. The definition of learn to me is growing as a person and always discovering new things every day. This matches the LNC motto Learn, Lead, and Serve. A situation when I showed this is when I started reading a autobiography about a holocaust survivor. A little bit ago my great- grandma got really sick and was in the hospital, at one point she was in hospice. The lady who was helping us through hospice was named Leah, she was really nice and fun. Leah had a 95 year-old friend named Susan. What we didn't know about Susan was that she was a Holocaust survivor. When Leah mentioned this I was very excited and wanted to meet Susan, Susan agreed to meet me but on one condition. A few days later I received a book called …show more content…
I'd never really read a autobiography, but the book is sort of like a behind the scenes that other books don't tell you. When I got the book my mom said, “You better start to read that book soon because Susan is 95 you know.” At that point I had already started a series so I didn't get into it until a week after I received the book. The first night I read the book it was cold, I only had one lamp going in my room, as I started to really get into the book i was very impressed with Susan's fantastic use of vocabulary such as the three different languages she used and I was in awe. Her book really puts things into perspective and you could see how incredibly hard it was for her. While she was in a camp they had to keep their face and wands clean, but the had no way of doing that. If they didn't keep their hands and face clean they were sent to the gas. Also in the camp Susan has it deal with lice, bedbugs and the fear of being sent to the gas with one wrong move. I have learned so much already, like how Susan has a permanent dent in her head from being clubbed in the camp. I have also leaned that Susan moved multiple times into multiple camps, and even found friends along the