It was such an unforgettable moment for so many people. Anyone who has the blood of a Jewish person is being sent to a concentration camp. After all that trouble, only about two-hundred forty-five thousand had survived out of millions of Jewish blood. Most stories that are told at this time about the Holocaust are the survivors’ experiences during this uproar. A lot of kids had no idea what was going on, but some realized what was going on, and it turned out they were losing their loved ones. Teenagers did their best to survive that tragic moment in their lives. Adults try to protect their children, they do their best to protect their children and other loved ones. It was not whether they could survive, but to try their best to get out of this…show more content… Survivors that have survived today try their best to tell us about their experiences during the Holocaust, though there are so many who do not have the urge to tell their stories because of the trauma and it is alright, we do not want to force them because it might only make them stressed about it. Shep Zitler was one of the survivors of the Holocaust. He was born on May 27, 1917, in Vilnius, Lithuania. In February 1939, Zitler was drafted into the Polish army in his early 20s. He was a prisoner of war at the time when the Holocaust happened. He was not comfortable with Polish soldiers because of the way they were across from each other’s lands. For five years and seven months, Shep was sent to various camps. On September 16, 1942, his sister, Doba, wrote him a letter saying their parents were gone. Germany invaded Poland and Poland lost after sixteen days. After Poland lost, the Polish soldiers were sent to the camp near Kieke, it was called the 77th Pulk Pietory and it was for soldiers only, it was the place where Shep was kept. As a POW, he was not sent to the death camps where most Jews were sent to. Instead, he was forced to work in labor
