Book Report: Auschwitz Concentration Camps

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The concentration camps aren’t just packed with adults at every step you take, they’re also crammed with thousands of young children. All of them nameless. Just a number written on there arm. That is there identity. Chaya, J197241, 12 year old girl, was interviewed and told her heart wrenching story with eyes that looked liked an empty book with no life and no imagination. She explained that before life in the Auschwitz concentration camp during 1942, she was peaceful and happy, frolicking at her uncle Shmuel's wedding, until Nazi soldiers stormed through and demanded the innocent people onto a wagon. Chaya was then shoved into a tight claustrophobic boxcar with other friends and family members, some standing in the thin air that stank of sweat

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