September 1, 1939. The day the war first began. This is the day that changed my life and my families life forever. I grew up in a small family with just my mother, dad, and my little baby brother. I was seventeen years old. I had my whole life ahead of me, or so I thought. Little did I know that one man was going to change my life forever and millions of other people's lives.
After the war started, my family went into hiding for four years because we were a Jewish family. My parents said that Hitler didn’t think of us as normal human beings because we were Jewish, so we went into hiding from the Nazi regime. On July 23, 1943 my family was found by the Nazis. We were taken to a concentration camp called Treblinka, located in Poland. This camp opened on July 23,1942 and had been running for a year now.
When we first arrived the soldiers took all the little children and their mothers away. Including my mother and little baby brother. I thought I would see them again, but I later learned from a other girl my age that the Nazis take the small children and mothers to the gas chambers. I also learned that camp Treblinka was an extermination and labour camp. The camp was divided into three different parts: the reception area, the living area, and the …show more content…
There are no numbers on how many people were imprisoned at Treblinka. There was also 750 prisoners who tried to escape from this camp, but only 70 ended up surviving the war and only 67 people survived the camp without escape. This was definitely one of the worst genocides in history. Genocide means the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Hitler wanted to take over the world, he wanted all Jews, Gypsies, and people with mental disabilities gone. I had my whole life ahead of me, but one man changed my life and millions of other people's lives
After the war started, my family went into hiding for four years because we were a Jewish family. My parents said that Hitler didn’t think of us as normal human beings because we were Jewish, so we went into hiding from the Nazi regime. On July 23, 1943 my family was found by the Nazis. We were taken to a concentration camp called Treblinka, located in Poland. This camp opened on July 23,1942 and had been running for a year now.
When we first arrived the soldiers took all the little children and their mothers away. Including my mother and little baby brother. I thought I would see them again, but I later learned from a other girl my age that the Nazis take the small children and mothers to the gas chambers. I also learned that camp Treblinka was an extermination and labour camp. The camp was divided into three different parts: the reception area, the living area, and the …show more content…
There are no numbers on how many people were imprisoned at Treblinka. There was also 750 prisoners who tried to escape from this camp, but only 70 ended up surviving the war and only 67 people survived the camp without escape. This was definitely one of the worst genocides in history. Genocide means the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Hitler wanted to take over the world, he wanted all Jews, Gypsies, and people with mental disabilities gone. I had my whole life ahead of me, but one man changed my life and millions of other people's lives