5.04 the holocaust

Hey there my name is Sofie I am 8 years old, before the holocaust started I lived in Kaunas, Lithuania. I remember the day that my family and I were taken, I had just gotten to the dining table and started eating breakfast momma made all of my favorites that morning because it was the day before my birthday it is what she does every year. Two men who looked like soldiers knocked on the door papa invited them in and offered them breakfast, the politely declined and told us that we need to pack one suitcase of only our necessities. When papa asked him why the solider responded firmly telling papa that he just needed to do as he was told, and so we did. I really wish we never would have gone with the soldiers that morning, it was a terrible mistake. The soldiers pushed us into a small car, when I asked momma where we were going one of the soldiers turned around and yelled at me and told me to be quiet or else. I was terrified; I started to cry momma held me and told me all would be okay. When we arrived at the train station they spilt us up papa was sent to one train and me and momma were sent to another. I begged him to come back; one of the soldiers turned and hit me. Momma stepped in front of me and they told her to take me on the train before they did worse, we did as they were told. That was the last time I ever saw my papa, when the train stopped momma said that we were in Auschwitz. We were there for about a month before momma was moved…..I was all alone after that. I missed momma and papa so much. Two weeks after momma was taken away I went in with a bunch people to take a shower, the first one that I had ever had since being there. I never came out; there was some kind of gas that came out of the shower heads. I wish the soldiers never came to our house that morning; I never got to tell my momma and papa goodbye. They survived and found each other after the holocaust was over. I was killed at 9 years old just because I was Jewish… it was so