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"Thousands and thousands of shoes, each pair different, each pair silently screaming someone's murdered dreams" (Horn para. 5).

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"I wished I could throw my shoes into that pile, to grasp and feel each shoe, to jump into the sea of shoes, to become a part of it, to take it with me". (Dana Horn, pg 2)

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"I saw the blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls, the posion used to kill the people who were crushed into this tiny, grey cement room. I could see how their fingers had scraped off the white paint, trying to escape (Horn para. 2)."

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"I sat on a platform about five feet off the ground, and surrounding it was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep." (Horn para. 6)

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"I saw the blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls, the poison used to kill the people who were crushed into this tiny, gray cement room. I could see how their fingers had scraped off the white paint, trying to escape" (Horn para. 3).

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"I wanted to feel; I hated the guilt I had at my lack of reaction as much as I hated what happened there."

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"But, as I touched my own toe, tears welled in my eyes as my fingers traced the edges of my dusty, living shoes. 850,000 pairs of shoes, but now i understand they aren't numbers, they were. people." (Horn para. 8)

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statement: the events you experience are hard to forget

"And I will never forget it" (Horn 1).

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statement: the events you experience are hard to forget

quote: "I learned more there than I learned during my entire life in school" (Horn 1).

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"And i will never forget it"(Horn para 1).

You can't under stand it until you have seen it.

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"I am fifteen years old, and I know I can never forget" (Horn paragraph 14).

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"My tears froze in my eyes and I couldn't cry. I felt my soul go up in flames leaving me as an empty shell." (page 2)

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"It was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep." (Horn para. 6)

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"The Photographs meant nothing to me." (Horn para. 6)

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" I am fifteen years old, and I know I can never forget."(Horn paragraph 14)

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"The only light in that cement room was from dozens of memorial candles. It was too dark to see. The air inside was dampand sufocating, like a burial cave, and yet the air was savagely alive." (Page 2)

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statement: "I am fifteen years old, and I know I cant forget" (page 2)

Theme: Seeing an experience with your own eyes is way more emotional than just heating about it.

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"I learned more there than I learned during my entire life in school...I became a different person." (Horn paragraph 1).

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"I was at Majdanek, one of the largest Nazi concentration camps. And I will never forget it." (Horn paragraph 1)

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"soon I crying, but for someone else: for the child whose mother's sandals rested on that pile, for the woman whose husband's shoes swam motionless in that sea, like the tears that streaked my face, for the girl whose best friend's slippers were buried in that ocean of grayness and silence." (Horn para 7)

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"I wished I could throw my shoes into that pile, to grasp and feel each shoe, to jump into the sea of shoes, to become a part of it, to take it with me." (Horn Paragraph 6)

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"...but those chilling waves were seeping into my skin, like so many tiny fingers trying to pull at my nerves and make my bones quiver." (Horn para. 2).

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"Thousands and Thousands of shoes, each pair different, each pair silently screaming someone's murdered dreams. No book can teach me what I saw there with my own eyes" (page 2)

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"Majdanek reeks of death everywhere. Even the reminders and signs of life that exist in a cemetery, like a footprint or rustling leaves, are absent here, every image of life erased. Even the wind does not ruffle the grass, which never used to grow here because the prisoners would eat it." (Horn, pg. 2)

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"And I was there. You cannot visit this planet through any film or book; photographs cannot bring you here" (Hara page 2).

Theme: We never know what someone else is going through unless we experience it ourselves.

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"...Not to notice the death which stuck daily, right behind their backyards, where I saw children playing." (Page 1)

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I sat on a platform about five feet off the ground and surrounding it was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep. In the gas chamber I could not feel, but in that room filled with shoes, my mental blockade cracked.

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"I wanted to add my own shoes to that ocean, but all I could leave there were my salty tears." (Horn 8).

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"I touched the toe of one nearby and felt its dusty texture, certain that mine would be different. But as I touched my own toe, tears welled in my eyes as my fingers traced the edges of my dusty, living shoes." (Horn pg 2)

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Majdanek reeks of death everywhere. Even the reminders and signs of life that exist in a cemetery,like a foot print or rustling leaves, are absent here, every image of life erased.

(Horn para. 10)

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"gray is the color of hell."(Horn para 4)

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"There are actually houses right next to the barbed wire, the fence with its thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes, enough to separate a universe."(Horn para. 4)

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"All of the walls in one barracks are covered with people's hats, hanging in rows." (Horn, p5).

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"Majdanek has been left exactly as it was when it was in use, so intact that if it were to be 'plugged in,' it could start gassing people tomorrow"(Horn para. 2).

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"Each pair of those shoes walked a path all its own. guided its owner through his or her life and to all of their deaths." (Horn Pg. 2)

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"Each pair of those shoes walked a path all its own, guided its owner through his or her life and to all of their deaths" (Horn para. 5)

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"Thousands and Thousands of shoes, each pair different, each pair silently screaming someone's murdered dreams." (Horn 4-5)

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"And I will never forget it" (Horn paragraph 1)

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"Soon I was crying but for someone else." (Horn page 2)

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"No words can express how it felt to step out of that gas chamber alive, wearing my living shoes"(Horn Para. 7)

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"It crawled down my neck and compressed me as the walls and ceiling seemed to move closer. No words can express how it felt to step out of that gas chamber alive, wearing my living shoes" (Dana Horn, Pg 2)

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"It crawled down my neck and compressed me as the walls and ceiling seemed to move closer. No words can express how it felt to step out of that gas chamber alive, wearing my living shoes" (Dana Horn, Pg 2)

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"Majdanek reeks of death everywhere... every image of life erased" (Horn para. 10)

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""Majdanek has been left exactly as it was when it was in use, so intact that if it were to be "Plugged in" it could start gassing people tomorrow.""

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"And today the camp's long gray barn-like barracks still extend forever, in endless rows, the sky a leaden weight blocking the colors that grace free life. (Horn Pg. 1-2)

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"Planet Hell is beyond the realm of tears. This is why I could not cry." (page 2)

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"I wished I could throw my shoes into that pile, to grasp and feel each shoe, to jump into the sea of shoes, to become a part of it, to take it with me. I wanted to add my own shoes to that ocean, but all I could leave were my salty tears" (Horn, paragraph 8).

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"It was someone else's nightmare, a nightmare that turned real before I even noticed it. It was a stark and chilling reality that struck me there, standing where people were slaughtered and burned, and my mind simply stopped." (Horn 9)

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"Each pair of those shoes walked a path all its own. guided its owner through his or her life and to all of their deaths." (Horn Pg. 2)

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"Even the wind does not ruffle the grass, which never used to grow here because the prisoners would eat it. But in the crematorium, I felt something I couldn't express." ( Horn page 2)

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In one barracks, I sat on a platform about five feet off the ground, and surrounding it was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep. (Horn)

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In one barracks, I sat on a platform about five feet off the ground, and surrounding it was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep. (Horn)

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"This Gas camber didn't have the blue poison stains that streaked the walls in the one that is saw firs, or maybe it did: the only light in that cement room was from dozens of memorial candles. it was dark to see." (Horn pg.2)

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"As I touched the brick furnaces with trembling fingers, my tears froze in my eyes and I could not cry. It was here that I felt my soul go up in flames, leaving me an empty shell" (Horn Page 2)

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"But as I touched my own toe, tears welled in my eyes as my fingers traced the edge of my dusty, living shoes. Eight hundred and fifty thousand pairs of shoes, but now I understood" (Horn para. 6)

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"But as I touched my own toe, tears welled in my eyes as my fingers traced the edge of my dusty, living shoes. Eight hundred and fifty thousand pairs of shoes, but now I understood" (Horn para. 6)