Escape From Auschwitz

Chapter 1

"No please don't , Father help" shouted Jaakko, a young Jew with very short hair and filthy clothes. The German soldiers dragged the young boy through the wet, sludgy mud.

He struggled as multiple men started to pull his family away from each other. Jaakko's father had attacked a German soldier. The soldier shook the man off and turned around and shoved a boyonette through his chest. Blood oozed out of him and stained his dirty clothes.

Jaakko broke down into tears as he saw his father lying on the puddle filled muddy pathway down from the barn house where his family used to live. He wailed and whined, the small boy managed to shake off the soldier restraining him and ran over to his father's bloody carcass. The soldier grabbed the distraught Jew and aimed his rifle to his face after throwing him onto the floor.

The captain of the German squadron that was raiding the Jewish village said to the German soldier " Stehen Sie Soldat nicht schaden ihnen, wir brauchen sie Tanne die Lager" (stand down soldier we need them for the camps.) The soldier grudgingly pulled the boy to his feet and shoved him into the direction of the line all the other children were being forced into.

The long line led to trucks that were being loaded full of the Jews. The trucks were heading towards the concentration camp up on the mountains about 15 kilometres away from the small village.

Jaakko remembered hiking up those mountains before the war. Him and his father loved to gaze down at the fields of cows and sheep from the summit of the mountains. They would bring a picnic and enjoy the sun as it set far away on the horizon. He remembered the way that his father had cared for him ever since his mother died in a fire in the centre of the village.

Tears rolled down his face as he sat in the back of a large truck in the middle of the convoy. There were many boys around the same age as Jaakko, just like him they were all distraught from losing people

He was nervous towards the labour that was awaiting him at the concentration camp. He was worried about what would happen if he did things wrong would they kill him or just torture him.