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Auschwitz: True Tales of a Grotesque Land By: Theodore O'Keefe
The Bialystok prison life was hard for Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. Living in a block with two hundred women of all ages, there was always fighting and arguments over who stole the bread and who should get the water.
In this book, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk exclaims how life was during the Holocaust and going without celebrating the holidays with her family. All the women in her block would get together and quietly sing songs to lift the spirit.
Exchange: After two months of being in Bialystok, Sara and her block were being transferred to a new place. Devastated about where they would end up, the prisoners were not told which destination they would be arriving at. Going into a new place was horrifying because they didn't know what the officers expected and you get punished if you don’t do what they say whether you know or not.
The New Arrival: Entering a horrid place Sara saw the sign that said "Arbeit macht frei,” which meant the entrance to death. Though the prison they were at before seemed harsh, it was nothing like the camp they had came too. Being beat brutally and getting hardly if any portions of food, Sara and the prisoners struggled to survive.
Everyday became a struggle and the time kept pasting and the war was not over. Each day a selection of people were chosen and they were sent to the crematory. Living in barracks with nothing around but dirt and the odor of the dead bodies and prisoners.
1944- The prisoners in Auschwitz were somewhat relieved. The camp had stopped gassing people, because the Germans were afraid that they were going to have to deal with the same thing by the Russians. •January 1945- The Germans took all records from the camp and fled the camp, running from the Bolsheviks. •Sara and other prisoners dragged themselves among the highways, wanting to stop, but knowing they couldn’t if they wanted to reach their freedom. They were caught and squeezed into trains like sardines in a can. •Arriving in Ra- vensbrck, they were all forced into barracks, but were later transported to barracks in Rostock •April 1945 – Rostock camp was ordered to feed the prisoners food packages.
An estimate of 5,860,000 Jewish people were killed. •About 5,000,000 people who were not Jewish were also killed •The Holocaust was a devastating time period that everyone is glad to see gone. My book is a non-fiction historical book. •I recommend my book to anyone interested in history or learning about World War II.
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May 1st 1945 – The Germans had fled and everyone was ready to take back what the Germans had took from them. •A variety of people from different countries gathered and ate a nice dinner, eating one of the biggest meals they have had in a while. •They were sent in cars to Poland to start over and find themselves a home. Lucky like a few others, Sara survived the Holocaust and has her own story to tell.
“We were alienated. We felt that no one wanted us here. It was the isolation of the prisoners in the Jewish cell that had hurt me most of all in the Bialystok prison.” - Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
