Have you ever been imprisoned in the camp of a dangerous, powerful dictator? That at any moment, could give the order to take your life? This is what the young, twelve-year-old Simone Liebster, and her family had to go through. This terrible war took many years of her childhood. When she turned eleven in 1941, her father was taken from her family because he refused to abide by Nazi laws. The Nazis took all of the father's wages and closed the family bank account. Nazi officials later rewrote laws to allow taking children for religious beliefs, or not participating in the “Heil Hitler”salute at schools, and in July of 1943, Simone received a letter that would change her life forever, a letter that could decide her fate, a letter that would flip…show more content… After months of her being at the reform school, her mother was moved to various different concentration camps. Almost two years later, Simone and her mother were sent free. When reunited with her mother, she was very emotional. Two years of pain, sorrow, and loss had poured out. Later she returned to her original home, but there was terrible news ahead of her. Her father was killed in the concentration camp during the war. After hearing that, Simones mother realized that she was a widowed mother, still recovering from the pains of her life in the concentration camps. One day they heard a man trying to get up the stairs of their home. It was Simone's father, he didn't die, but he was in terrible condition. The family felt a great feeling of relief. They lived a peaceful life from then on.
The story of Simone Liebster is meaningful to me. Not because I went through a terrible war, but because I know how it feels when you think you've lost a family member. Three years ago I was able to meet my twenty-two year old brother, Stephen. And I was also able to meet my sister-in-law and niece. For my whole life up to that point, I thought my own brother was dead, long before I was born, and so did my family. Sometimes I felt just as Simone would have felt when she thought she lost her father. Then one day we met and it was exactly what I imagine
