When taken to the camps they were separated, tattooed a number, given one bowl, one spoon, one dress, and forced to shower together while the Nazis took all their belongings. Separated by race, religion, old, young, and healthy. Judged …show more content…
They made friends and stuck together. One day while they were working in the fields they were taken to work in a factory. They were treated better there, not as humans, but better. If you were careful you could trade for clothes, food, and other thing. The girls traded for scissors, glue, paper, and colors.
They wanted to make Fania a birthday present because she gave them hope and kept them all together. It was a heart made from paper filled with letters from the other girls. She kept it in her dress over her heart. Around this time the war was getting close to the camp and they had to move the girls. They were lined up in a block formation to walk. They didn’t know where they were going and didn’t really care.
They slept on the ground piled together for warmth. One night as the girls lay down to sleep it starts to rain. They pile in a storm drain and cover themselves with leaves for warmth. A German soldier wakes them the next morning. They had been saved. The girls are taken to a refugee camp and nursed back to health. It takes weeks for them to lean how to eat again. They later lost contact with each other as they grew up. Fania donated her paper heart a museum so people could look at it and know her story. When the book was written she was still