Personal Narrative: The Holocaust Journey

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The Journey Today is January 30,1933 the holocaust is going on in Poland i’m Tommy Fitzgibbon and i’m a partisan fighter my helpers Jody baxter and Sarah poe help me save Jews from the concentration camp, I’m a officer that work for Hitler undercover to help Jews escape from the concentration camps we always take the youngest or the weak and oldest out first. One day we were helping out some jews escape and one of the other officers became suppose of what we were doing we would always find ways to take so food from the Nazis to help the others so that there would be more jews that would survive. Then that day I was helping so jews escape from the camp and Jody was helping me help them escape. Jody helped me load some jews in an army truck when one of the other officers was approaching them, then tommy acted as he didn't know Jody and that she couldn’t be here and he was going to take her because she was in a …show more content…
But the snow did more than that. It also helped track down the enemy, and its brightness showed approaching figures from great distances. Where safe shelters were at a premium, Jewish partisans slept outside on the ground, huddled close together for warmth. Frank Blaichman remembered the winter as follows: "We slept in the forest, in the freezing rain and snow.” Sometimes for several days we were wet, and hungry, and still we didn’t give up. We were hardened, not softened."Most Jewish partisans who fled the ghettos and camps did so with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. As with food, clothing was a scarce and valuable commodity. "I had a pair of boots that a friend found for me," recollected Polish-Jewish partisan

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