The Story of Lilly Klein

Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you were captured and taken away by The Nazis? Lilly Klein has lived through that situation. She had to go through the hard times without any food or water for possibly weeks. Could you? This is the story of Lilly Klein.

   Lilly Klein was older than me, and I am only eleven. The Children of the Holocaust website stated, “ Lilly, the daughter of Sara and Sandor Klein, lived with her mother and seven siblings, in the city of Debrecen, Hungary.” That right there basically told us that she lived a normal life. A house, maybe with an attic or basement, or even a simple one level house. Basically the normal life.  Just like you. Hungary was an ally of Germany at the time, when it got around to be, “1943, the Hungarian government realized that their German all was losing the war.” So to try to save their country they tried to back out, but it backfired. Germany ended up taking over their country. Lilly was seventeen when this happened.

   “ Lilly and her family were rounded up and herded into a sealed-off Ghetto where they were kept for two months.” THey were okay there, but they started sending them off to different camps. Lilly all alone was put on a train to go to an Auschwitz death camp. Thankfully she never made it there. The train had gotten stopped because the tracks had been ruined so they could go no further. The train instead was put on the route to the Strasshoff concentration camp in Australia.

     When Lilly got there she was then forced to do forced labor. When you are in forced labor it was normally where they just tried to just work you to death. She was worked to the point of total exhaustion. She rarely got food or water. Get this if they were to ill or elderly to work they were murdered in a gas chamber. When the camp was liberated in April 1945, Eighteen year old Lilly was barely alive.

     In conclusion, she was a strong person she of not many made it out alive.  I personally think that if I had been through this I would have not made it out alive. We need to remember her in all the ways our little tiny brain can process. We need to remember all of them. They are special as are we. My one true question is, “ Could you make it?”