Concentration Camp Experience

To begin with, a concentration camp is a place where a large amount of people such as Jews are imprisoned in a small area with no freedom, and this was established by the Nazis in Germany. In 1933, my house was raided by the Nazis and my family was sent to a concentration camp. At the concentration camp is where I met my best friend Anahi. Anahi and I were always awakened by the Kapo very rudely. The “bettenbau” is just a good opportunity for him to beat the prisoners. When we woke up, we had to make our bed and then it is time for washing. Anahi and I run out of the barrack and try to reach the facility. There are only a couple of sanitary facilities for hundreds of prisoners and your time is limited. After all the washing, it is time for the morning roll call, and you know the
The kapos count us and the dead people lying in front of us. If one of us tried to escape, all of us will stand at attention at their roll-call place until the kapos find the person that left. The evening roll call is also the moment chosen by the SS for the punishments and the hangings of any of us that don’t eat their food. I always eat the food even if it has been in the mud, it’s better than not being feed at all or the kapos hanging me. If the SS hangs anyone of us, we have to pass by the bodies as a warning. When the evening roll call is over, you receive your dinner. They usually serve you soup like the one from lunch. If you saved some bread from breakfast, you may eat it with your soup. When dinner is over you have to head to your barrack. At night you cannot leave your barrack for any reason. The blockfuerher will stop you if they see you, they can decide if they will let you go back to your barrack or kill you. If you go back to your barrack, you have to stay in your straw mattress. In my bunk bed there are five with just one blanket, if someone moves we all have to move too. But we manage to survive and get out of there