viernes, 14 de noviembre de 2014

Children from the Holocaust





August 1, 1943.

Dear Diary:

I haven't write because a lot of things have happened to me. Last month I was very busy. It's sort of incredible what happened... A time ago I was on the school saying good bye to a classmate, now I'm alone and trapped in camps with almost no food and water. Each day it's a real torture.

Well that's how it's now, it was different back then when the Germans just arrived to the city, let me tell you a little bit what happened.

The day that the Germans capture me I was going back from school I was rubbing my hands because of the freezing weather when some sirens started sounding. I was scared, it was the first time I had hear that sound... now that sound it's part of my soul. When I heard that sound I started running to my house... but something happened I saw something falling from the sky, then... there was no grass, no tree, no dog, no car, no house, no family... there was nothing.

I started crying while a windy rain started falling, I cried for minutes, hours... I don't know, I lost the sense of time. Then some soldiers appear, German soldiers... They took me with a bunch of people to a train, it was a torturous journey of 2,3,4 days I have no idea, since the destruction of my family I lost the sense of time. The journey was with out food and mixed with the cooling weather it was the worst experience I had have, at least that was what I though until I enter the first stop of my journey... a labor camp.

When we arrive they divides us in two groups adults and children. I don't know what they did with the adults, but for us the useless ones for work where taken away, I never saw them again. After that they divided us in groups I was in the kitchen one, at least... my mother thought me how to cook... I could make something useful. But they treat us like animals, we leaved in some sort of corrals, we had two plate of food and two water glasses a day and sometimes the guards “played” with us, they kicked and make fun of us.

The days passed while I was working, one day they grab some of us saying that we would be working in Auschwitz, because they needed help at the kitchen in there. The trip was a lot worse than the first one, the only difference was, today, when we arrived they throw us in a little house with other persons, then an old lady told us this house is made for the cookers, its easer for them to identified us if we lived in another part and she said where we would sleep. We have a house, but we don't have a proper bed its like a mattress with a blanket.

August 2, 1943.

Dear Diary:

We work all the day in the kitchen, all of us made the food for the capture ones and some of us to the soldiers. I made food to the soldiers in there I met a girl of my age and since us, the cookers, have some kind of “special” treat we have a time to “socialise” in our house (well today was more like half the time cooking lessons and then like a break time) in that break time we talk a little and then we went to sleep.

August 20, 1943.

Dear Diary:

Not much has happened, except I'm starting to think there's no point to stay alive or have feelings.

Why I'm alive? Why I didn't die with my family? Why did God this to me? There is not a reason to me to be living, I've got no family neither a reason for being alive. There is not a point to be living if I'm only suffering and probably I'll die like all the persons I have met in the camps each one of them has died. And, there's no point for having feelings they only brought me pain and suffering, the more you have worst thee pain.

September 1, 1943.

Dear Diary:

I'm getting in love with that girl, a ray of hope is coming between the tortuous fog that the Germans are doing to us. Each day they treat us worse, like animals that only where doing bad things. I'm getting hope again...

September 10, 1943.

Dear Diary:

She's gone... In the night the soldiers came and took half of the house with them... Is she alive? What I'm going to do?.... They treat us like animals, I lost the most precious things to me, my family and... her... Each day will be horrendous and sad...