Personal Experience: Lessons Learned From The Holocaust

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I have not talked about my experiences for a long time. I was changed by what happened there in those desolate camps in more ways than I would want to admit. The worst is all of the nightmares I experience, so lifelike I feel that i'm back there in Auschwitz, soulless and empty, watching all of my former friends dying and thinking only “at least it’s not me”. In some ways I still see just how much the rest of the world is the same. Avoiding any punishment or difficulties everyone would think the same, no matter whether they admit to or not. That is why I’m writing this book. I remember the time that I had spent in the Auschwitz camps very well, almost a full year, when I was only 21. The starvation that we endured, the terrible weather we faced with no protection. Worst of all was the selections. The SS just coming up and reading off names like the grim reapers shopping list. When they call your name death is imminent, and some would …show more content…
We knew there was little chance to make it so none of us were surprised, but we were disappointed all the same. We returned back to the camps we all were familiar with, without much change in them. But there was new talk going around the camp, about taking back our homeland and making our own country. I met this man one day. He was telling everyone how there were people that were already over in palestine fighting to get our own country. “ We have gone through more prosecution than any other people. It is time that we finally get our own country where we won't be under constant persecution. Where everyone can do whatever they want without unfair laws that stop them from owning a shop or being a performer or whatever they want to do.” I was skeptical at first. I asked “ How could we ever achieve this, it is not like we will be given a country and be left alone, and where would we even go if they
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