Five Years to Live

During World War II, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, was taking Jews from their home and sending them to concentration camps. This was called the Holocaust. Concentration camps are pretty much death camps. All that you d there is work pretty much until you die. Hitler would only take Jews from their home and send them to concentration camps. Anne Frank was a young girl with big dreams and thoughts that she wanted to put into writing. In the book, The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne states on page two, ”I want to bring out all the thoughts and feelings buried deep within my soul.” This shows that Anne has thoughts within her soul because expressed freely in this book. Anne was taken by Nazis and sent to a concentration camp, because she was Jewish. Sadly, her father, Otto Frank, was the only Frank family member who survived. Now, when you think of the Holocaust, do you only think of Anne Frank? Wrong. There were 1.5 million other children who were killed during the time of the Holocaust. Overall, there were 6 million people that were killed in the Holocaust. In the article,”The Children of Holocaust” it states,” The Germans killed as many as 1.5 million children.” This shows that there were many children killed during the Holocaust. One child named, Alfred Kristeller, was sent to a concentration camp with his parents. As soon as they stepped off the train that brought them to the concentration camp, they were sent to a gas chamber and immediately murdered. Alfred was only five years old. This makes me very sad. Alfred only lived for five years. Think about this, would you only want to live a life for five years or a long life for seventy-three years. Alfred didn’t have that choice, thanks to Adolf Hitler. In the poem,”The Butterfly,” the poet states,” I never saw another butterfly again.” Imagine you never seeing a butterfly again. That probably happened to Alfred, too. This writing is dedicated to the memory of all the children who died during the Holocaust, just like Alfred Kristeller or Anne Frank. In conclusion, let’s continue to honor their memory by informing others that there were more children that died during the Holocaust than they might think.