Thomas
Thomas Buergenthal was a young boy when Hitler started getting followers, but Thomas was old enough to remember how it changed his life. Thomas was separated from his parents; Thomas was also forced in a death march. Thomas was scared or dying, hungry, and felt loss and insecure. Even with all these emotions Thomas was brave, and most of all he was loyal. Would you be loyal or would you be a traitor to say yourself? In the beginning Thomas’s parent moved from Germany to Czechoslovakia. In the town of Lubochna Thomas’s father bought a small hotel. Friends of Thomas’s dad who moved to Czechoslovakia from Germany stayed in that hotel. In 1938 soldiers of Hitler’s side took over the hotel. Thomas’s family fled to Zilina until Thomas …show more content…
Then bread raining from the sky; thanks to the people who threw them bread Thomas ended up not starving. Thomas and his parents were put in a ghetto. They were in the ghetto until it was liquidated. After that Thomas was sent to a forced labor camp, and his parent were sent to Auschwitz. In the labor camp Thomas felt he needed to do something, so he went up to the person and asked him if he needed a errand boy. Thomas sat on a chair outside of his door and waited for the commander to tell him something to do. Thomas could hear what was going one and report it back to the others. Thomas would warn the others of when the commander was coming. The commander had a feather on his hat, so when Thomas put his finger over his head and acted like it was a feather everyone knew the commander was coming. The death march was where Thomas went to next. On the first day there was a 10 hour march. It was tiring and anyone who was behind the group got shot. Thomas and two boys came up with a plan. Then plan was to go right up to the front, so they could walk slowly. Then when they started getting near the end they would run up to the front again. Thomas’s story has made me think about the people and their lives during that time. It has also made me want to read Thomas’s book Lucky Child. I challenge you to think about everyone who survived and died in the
Thomas Buergenthal was a young boy when Hitler started getting followers, but Thomas was old enough to remember how it changed his life. Thomas was separated from his parents; Thomas was also forced in a death march. Thomas was scared or dying, hungry, and felt loss and insecure. Even with all these emotions Thomas was brave, and most of all he was loyal. Would you be loyal or would you be a traitor to say yourself? In the beginning Thomas’s parent moved from Germany to Czechoslovakia. In the town of Lubochna Thomas’s father bought a small hotel. Friends of Thomas’s dad who moved to Czechoslovakia from Germany stayed in that hotel. In 1938 soldiers of Hitler’s side took over the hotel. Thomas’s family fled to Zilina until Thomas …show more content…
Then bread raining from the sky; thanks to the people who threw them bread Thomas ended up not starving. Thomas and his parents were put in a ghetto. They were in the ghetto until it was liquidated. After that Thomas was sent to a forced labor camp, and his parent were sent to Auschwitz. In the labor camp Thomas felt he needed to do something, so he went up to the person and asked him if he needed a errand boy. Thomas sat on a chair outside of his door and waited for the commander to tell him something to do. Thomas could hear what was going one and report it back to the others. Thomas would warn the others of when the commander was coming. The commander had a feather on his hat, so when Thomas put his finger over his head and acted like it was a feather everyone knew the commander was coming. The death march was where Thomas went to next. On the first day there was a 10 hour march. It was tiring and anyone who was behind the group got shot. Thomas and two boys came up with a plan. Then plan was to go right up to the front, so they could walk slowly. Then when they started getting near the end they would run up to the front again. Thomas’s story has made me think about the people and their lives during that time. It has also made me want to read Thomas’s book Lucky Child. I challenge you to think about everyone who survived and died in the