WW2
bang bang bang
"what"
"shut up jew"
"what do you want?"
"i said shut up"
germans burst through the doors and there drunken stench suddenly filled the room. i looked away as if they were all medusa and i was going to be turned to stone. they pilfered through everything not missing even a coin under the rug.
"heil hitler"
dawn broke and there i stood outside where the whole neighborhood could look and gawk at the jew. i felt violated. the germans are vile smelly nasty men. i look and see that my house is filled with the enemy. God help me.
the ghetto is not a nice place to live. rats are the best food. you want food you steal it or you cook some rat. i have lice. lice that are almost big enough to eat. like ants they search out food and when they find it they feast. do you know what it feels like to be feasted on? it's horrid.
"f**k germany"
all i hear day and night is the relentless cry of people as the war machine comes into contact with obstacles. they must be shot. herding humans like animals is a favorite pastime. what, you ask is my name? well i tell you only if you promise to no tell.
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im jakob kolbe. it is true. im a jew. and proud of it too. my wife sara left to join her mother in switzerland. why did i not go? im part of the underground resistance. the germans can think and say what they want. you ever look at how tall hitler really is? no?
bang bang bang
"what do you want"
"f**k you jew your gonna die"
train cars of people stink like a thousand people died here before. i was about to become more of that number. the gates slammed shut. crammed took on a new meaning.
my best friend had just become the man handing out water. i gulped it. the cars stopped. again we were herded onto the platform. it looked like the gestapo was looking us over. men on one side and women on another. my wife should be eating chocolate right now. a man with a nice suit looked us once over.
"you over here. you over there"
"your going to have a shower"
the sign over the gate "work brings freedom" that was going to far for me. germany would be under the control of the russians soon and then this would only be a memory.
work was hard. you compress that with no food and it spells death. have you ever smelt burning bodies? screams all the time reminded me to survive. a fence with electricity runs all around the outside of this place. how much is 10 million volts?
"work brings freedom eh? well it hasent brought it to me yet"
when i say that work was hard i mean it. you ever been forced to lift hundreds of pounds for 12 hours straight? i dident think so. you ever been forced to burn your friends? to dump ashes by the truck load into swamps? you ever watched men die cause they cant lift a brick there so weak? I dident think so.
"why is hitler still alive"
hitler hasent done an once of work in his life. and yet he runs the whole world. or so it seams. i think of my family every day and try to figure out where they might be. where they might be running too. what family hides them from certain death. why am i at a camp when there are many more deserving people to be here like the germans.
"germany ha"
i live in a cell block with about two thousand other people. have you ever lived in a bed so full of parasites that you are tempted to eat them for lack of real food? morning comes but with a hail of distaste. one of the prisoners escaped. death is in the air for 10 of us. but a commotion stirs and a priest is allowed to take the place of one of the condemned prisoners. what a day.
"heil hitler"
the band plays today as we leave to go and fill more swamps with human ash. the work is not as tireing as usual and i relish in the fact that my body dosent ache at the end of the day.
what bothers me the most is the stench. have you ever smelt an overflowing outhouse filled with stinky men who havent showered in months? its enough to kill a man. to go to the bathroom you must first get in line and wait. have you ever done your business for the day in 10 seconds? you ever empty your own toilet by hand to a pile outside? i loath the bathroom like any other human in this place.
"heil hitler"
the feeling of sorrow is eminent today. underground resistance in warsaw fell. chance of survival suddenly plunged to the very darkest depth. many of my closest friends fought the germans earnestly and lost. i cried for the first time in nearly a year. what a broad sense of emotions. i felt for sure i was about tp be liberated and then this.
"hitler must die"
i began to wonder today when i would be liberated. i seam to be getting more and more testy as the days go on possibly do to the fact that i have spent 3 years here and i want to leave as soon as possible. wouldent you? after all im not afraid of death. i have nothing to live for. when your family is gone to someplace safe and your stuck in the lowest of all places. i want to leave.
"screw hitler"
he has kept me here long enough. i wish to go out in a blaze of glory. and yet a little voice tugs at my soul to keep on trying for something greater. its never going to happen. and yet i stay alive for what reason i will never know.
the soviets liberated us today.
"God bless russians"
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