Journal Entry: Bartomiej Nowodworski High School

Entry #1 Hello, my name is Noah Abner. I am 15 years old and live with my mom, my dad, and my brother. People would describe me as funny, sociable, and sometimes annoying. My childhood has been perfect so far. I go to a school called Bartomiej Nowodworski High School in Poland. I have lots of friends at school, and we like to hang out all the time. Most of my friends play sports. Our favorite sport is football; we play every day, and we are getting outstanding. My house is not excessively big; we are not poor, but my brother and I must share a room, which makes me hate him even more. My parents work hard to get us what we need, my mom is a nurse at a hospital a few miles from my house. My dad runs a clothing store in downtown Na Gorbach, so
I have seen many terrible things, but daily life is the worst. They force us to work in a mill all day long until we cannot move our arms, then beat us until we cannot walk and throw us in here. I have been searching for my family for the past few days and my dad passed away in a pile of others that were gassed. I do not know how much more I can take, but from what I have learned here, the best way to stay alive is to act like you are healthy. They try to find reasons to kill you. The most common are being sick, being injured, or being disabled, so acting strong is the best way to live. I do not know what we have done wrong to belong here, but I am too afraid to ask, so I wonder. I am at a camp called Bergen Belsen which is one of the main camps so hopefully, I can hide amongst others to make it seem like I am not there. I feel very scared and sad, but I feel angry the most. Why do they think they are better than us, we did nothing wrong, but they still torture, and kill us. I hate these people, too. How could you even do this as a human being? I have seen people beaten until they die and shot once so they can just lay there and
He was in extremely poor condition, and you could tell he had been there a long time. Bruised, very skinny but somehow still alive. When he got his life back on track, he tried to find his mother and brother. Eventually his brother found him, his brother told him that he and his mom stayed together in the camp, but the Nazi found out and almost killed the brother, but his mom died instead to save him. Noah was happier, finally knowing what happened and his brother was okay. Noah Abners life after the war was normal besides the trauma he had from the camps, but he still got, and job gained his weight back and wrote a lot about his experience in the camps. He became an author and drafted a book called The Prisoner; it was about his experience during the war. Sometimes it is hard for him to talk about how traumatic the whole thing was, but he says that people need to know what was happening in those camps. He always wanted to figure out what happened to his father, which is what he tries to do in his spare time, but it is hard because of the number of deaths in the camp. He goes to therapy for his past that he got from the concentration camps which helps him keep his mind off things like his father's death, but he just cannot forget what he saw. It is stuck in his brain, and he thinks that if he finds out what happened he will be ok with his father's death. As he said