Henry Mikols had numerous labels. He was a student, a farmer, but most importantly, he was a survivor of the Holocaust. Henry was a taken from the his family and forced to work in Germany. He was one of the several teenagers sent to Germany to work in farms, which were put under an immense deal of pressure trying to supply the German army with food. Henry hated the person that he worked for, the farmer was profoundly unkind towards Henry. Henry, among with other boys at the farm, decided to run away. The group made copious progress in fleeing the country, however they were eventually stopped by a police officer. The cop captured one of the boys and the other boys decided that they would either all escape, or they would all turn themselves in.…show more content… Henry even requested from the farm owner to let him visit his family back in Poland after a year's work. The farmer acknowledged this, yet as a year passed and the farmer asked the government to let Henry visit his family the government told him that Henry was not allowed to take a vacation. When the family would sleep, Henry would tune into an underground Polish radio station where he continued to get updates on news of the war every day. He would write the news down and would recite it to the other prisoners. Eventually the word spread around that Henry had been spreading around rumors and he was soon arrested for espionage and spreading propaganda about the war. The soldier who came to question Henry beat him mercilessly with a walking stick. He took Henry to a jail where he waited two weeks to find out what might happen to…show more content… The starving boys dug in, unaware of the fact that their food contained Typhoid. Within minutes, they boys’ chests and arms will filled with boils and irritations. Henry then became cognizant of the situation. He finally understood that he was simply a lab rat for the government to experiment on. As the days went by, the Typhoid became even more troublesome. A boy at the facility screamed in pain to the point where the doctors decided to let him out of his misery and kill him, Henry began feeling suicidal and asked one of the doctors to grant him a favor. He asked the doctors to write his parents a letter, telling them that he will die soon and his faith in God will bring him to the heavens. The doctors, hearing this assured him that he would not die, in fact miraculously they went to Henry immediately and gave him two shots, one on each arm. The shots immediately mollified Henry’s body, and the pain slowly started to alleviate. The government had a serum ready to test, so far they had only tested it on animals, but not in enough time to save all the boys. Fifty six of the sixty boys died from the Typhoid because they were in stages of the disease where death stood
