Chapter 1

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War can be very painfull in my case i lost my whole family. It was the second world war and things had become very hard for us jews. We had been loaded up like we were animals and forced from our homes to work in camps. These camps were called death camps many people were killed withthin days of being there. My name is dinnah and it all started with a knock on my parents door i was 17 and my sister anne was 14. The soldiers grabed anne and through her to the ground. Leave her alone! I cried please!! One of the soldiers grabed me and draged me out of the house. Mama! Help me but my poor mother had resisted had  was shot exicution style. My father petter roberts had tried to stop the soldiers from hurting my mother lea and was beaten and then shot. They made anne and i watch our parents die we watched helplessly i was terrified and so was anne we were orphans and we were alone in the world. Why us? And why did my parents have to die they were so young and mama so pretty her hair as dark as coal and it was wavy and so long. Anne defintly had mamas hair and her ways. I loved my family so much they were everything to me and now my sister and i were on our ways to a camp. My fathers dieing wish to me was dinnah protect your sister shes all you have left and thats what i was planing on doing

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