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“Ahhh, What a beautiful day it is.” Jasmin yawned. Jasmin was looking at the window for a while viewing the open world people playing outside, birds flying around, and people walking their dogs. Mr.Vasquez and Mrs. Vasquez ( Jasmin’s parents) were getting breakfast ready and setting up the table. Then out of nowhere you hear the doorbell ring, and Jasmin went to go answer it. It was Janette she came to give them the weekly newspaper, Janette is one of their close friends, they’ve been friends for about 15 years. “ Did you hear the news!”, Janette yelled to Mr. Vasquez “ What happened, what’s going on?” Mr.Vasquez “ On the news, Hitler said that he wants to send all the jews to these camps,” Janette said frighteningly “ Why would he do that we didn’t do nothing wrong?” Mrs.Vasquez said frighten Nobody didn’t say anything after everyone was just shocked. Mr.Vasquez was finishing up making breakfast the whole house was quite like a library. During breakfast they were all discussing about a plan to hide so they don’t have to go to the camp but they were also thinking about what happens if they get caught. Jasmin was the only child Mr. Vasquez was afraid they were going to call her to the concentration camp and
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The next day she was telling her parents about the whole plan with the railroad and what she didn’t know one of the jews in the ghetto heard about the plan and then they started telling others. But one of the soldiers heard about the plan but didn’t know was going to do so they decided to guard the railroad every night. Janette found out when the railroad was coming it was going to come in 5 days and that was enough time to get them ready. Also, the partisans found out that the soldiers knew about the plan because when they went to look at the railroad they heard the conversation that the soldiers were

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