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Hitler came and took it all.
Hitler came and told them to beat us.
Hitler came and turned them against us.
He said it was the final solution.
They came and took us away, they said it was just orders.
Hitler put us in Auschwitz and
mommy said it would be OK.

Mommy said we were going to the ghetto but I still saw people dying.
Mommy said it was going to be just fine.
Mommy said we will make a fire but I was still freezing cold.
Mommy siad the Russians were coming soon.
Now mommy is dead.

I have waited a long time but they are not here
I can hear the guns in the distance but they are not coming.
I want to know when they are coming.
"What is that? They're here."

Now I am back home but I can't stay.
Someone told me about Palestine.
Now I am there with thousands of Jews and
I have a fmaily agian.
And I tell myself it'll be OK.

By Shawn T, when she was a gr 7 student,
after listening to a presentation by a Holocaust Survivor.

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