A Girl With The Odds Stacked Against Her

                                   

                 Eva Beem, a child of the Holocaust. When you think of the Holocaust, you think of Anne Frank, but there are so many more kids we need to acknowledge. One of them is Eva Beem.  She was a little child that was a victim of the Holocaust. Therefore, I will discuss the life of this little girl who went through so much. In my first paragraph, I will discuss  the early life of Eva Beem. The second paragraph, I will share about her time in hiding. In the third paragraph, I will discuss her life in a concentration camp and how she died. Anne Frank once said,” Despite everything, I believe that people are good at heart.”  These children were hurt and through so much, but still people forgave them.

              To begin with, we need to start at the beginning. Eva Beem was born May 21, 1932. She was born in Leeuwarden, Holland.  Eva was the daughter of Hartog and Rosette Beem. She had a younger brother, whose name is, Abraham Beem.  Eva was Jewish and, sadly, killed for her beliefs.  Germans invaded Holland when Eva was eight and her family would soon have to go into hiding.  Corrie ten Boom once stated,” Never be afraid to trust an unknown future.” That is what Eva had to do because she would not know the whole future of her life but she had to trust it.

           When the German’s invaded, the Beem family decided it was time to go into hiding. So they did. Their hiding place was in Amsterdam and it was really tiny. Life changed dramatically for the Beem family. Eva and her brother could no longer go to school and her parents worked for little money, but they had to do what was safe.  Her family lived in the ghetto and it was horrible. She was forced to wear a Star of David, her family was always starving, and it was really cold.  In 1942, Germans invaded the ghetto and her family was captured. She was only ten years of age and was separated from her parents.  She went to a labor camp and her parents were killed at a death camp. Anne Frank once said,” Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” Even though Eva was going to a concentration camp and her parents were sure to die, she still needed to keep her head held high.

             At the labor camp, Eva had to cut her hair and had to wear the same clothes as everyone. She was given little food and had to work hard every day. A person once said,” There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” That’s the truest statement ever said.  The Holocaust was horrible. The Germans were so cruel to the Jews, with no exception to Eva. They thought that Jews were evil, but they weren’t.  After working in the labor camp, she was sent to a death camp in Germany.  She worked there but was too weak. So the Germans sent her to the gas chambers to be killed. She was one of the 1.5 million kids that died in the Holocaust.

            In conclusion, Eva Beem was an innocent child who died in the Holocaust. There is a famous quote that states,” Remember the past to build the future.” The Holocaust was such a terrible time in history, but in order to learn from our mistakes we have to mess up. The Holocaust was a total mess up, but we learned to never do it again.  No person deserved to die in the Holocaust, especially, Eva Beem.