My Life After Ww2 Analysis
My Life During World War Two
By:
Shantel Calderon
World War Two was a rough time for millions of innocent human beings, especially those of the Jewish religion. It all started in 1939 when the Axis Powers-made up of Adolf Hitler from Nazi Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy and Tojo Hideki of Japan. Unfortunately, my family was Jewish and we were all shipped off to a concentration camp or an extermination camp, all of which were contaminated with some of the deadliest diseases, a lack of food and water, and worst of all millions were put to an eternal rest. I caught some of the worst illnesses at the Vught Labor Camp and yet, I was of the lucky ones out the millions of individuals imprisoned that made it out of the war alive. Little did I know that living in a concentration camp for two years would teach me so many life lessons. …show more content…
A majority of our neighbors were part of another religion, but it was very seldom to find another Jewish family in our part of the neighborhood. At the time I was just eleven, but I knew not to take anything for granted because life was short, and life is unpredictable because one day in life can be perfect, while the next is terrible. The capturing of my family could’ve been prevented if we had only moved to a country that wasn’t occupied by the Nazis, yet we made a decision that there was a high probability we would get captured whether we moved or not. On that day my mother and father delivered the news to me and my brother with a horrified tone in their voice and declared,
“We are not
By:
Shantel Calderon
World War Two was a rough time for millions of innocent human beings, especially those of the Jewish religion. It all started in 1939 when the Axis Powers-made up of Adolf Hitler from Nazi Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy and Tojo Hideki of Japan. Unfortunately, my family was Jewish and we were all shipped off to a concentration camp or an extermination camp, all of which were contaminated with some of the deadliest diseases, a lack of food and water, and worst of all millions were put to an eternal rest. I caught some of the worst illnesses at the Vught Labor Camp and yet, I was of the lucky ones out the millions of individuals imprisoned that made it out of the war alive. Little did I know that living in a concentration camp for two years would teach me so many life lessons. …show more content…
A majority of our neighbors were part of another religion, but it was very seldom to find another Jewish family in our part of the neighborhood. At the time I was just eleven, but I knew not to take anything for granted because life was short, and life is unpredictable because one day in life can be perfect, while the next is terrible. The capturing of my family could’ve been prevented if we had only moved to a country that wasn’t occupied by the Nazis, yet we made a decision that there was a high probability we would get captured whether we moved or not. On that day my mother and father delivered the news to me and my brother with a horrified tone in their voice and declared,
“We are not