Robbery

Taken

Blinded

Dead

Where are they taking us

Vladek, I’m afraid

We were on the train for 5 days

Drafted

Auschwitz

My mother was taken straight from the railroad station to the gas chambers

Barracks

Stripped of their rights, forced into ghettos, deported to concentration camps, and murdered

Well, Jew, don’t worry, we’ll find work for you!

And they did

They marched me to where it was more like me. War prisoners.

Escaped

My father pulled out 14 of his teeth to escape

Dangerous

Nazi Soldiers

You were hunted animal, 24 hours every day

Jews beaten for no reason

You never worked a day in your life!

Young

Children

Cry

Old

I’ll never forget

It starts off with the key words that summarize the feelings and emotions throughout the poem. I use words instead of sentences because I feel they have a bigger impact on the reader. The second stanza starts off when they are just being taken to the concentration camps and when they first started being introduced to the Holocaust. Are you sentences such as we were on the train for five days. this was used to show how long and horrible the experience was before they even got to the camp. The next stanza was when they were in the camp, and what they experienced and what they went through. I used sentences so I can better describe the area and everything that they went through. The second to last stanza was for after the concentration camp and after Valdek got away. I tried to show what they were scared of and what they were trying escape. this was all because they were taken at the beginning which is where this was all kind of wrapped up because all this just because they were exposed and taken. The last stanza was just to show the kind of people that were taken and murdered and the last line supposed to wrap up and be a reference from the first line in which they will never forget and always remember what happened to them during the holocaust.