I Have Lived A Thousand Years

By larissa p

  • I have lived a thousand years

    Her brother leaves home to attend the Jewish Teachers' Seminary in Budapest.

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    German troops invade Budapest where her brother is at.The rest of the country is unaware of the invasion at Budapest. Her brither comes home but her parents advise him to return to Budapest.

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    The country is curious about the news of the german invasion in Budapest. Jews are arrested on the streets of Budapest and put on trains to concentration camps in Germany. Her brother reaches home for the second time.

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    Her school along with every other school is closed. They get dismissed without any explnation.

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    The Jewish residents are ordered to delever all jewelry, radios, and vehicles to the Hungarian authorities. She had just gotten a new bike that she now has to part with. Her father takes her down to the place where they had hidden all of there jewelry.

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    The Jewish residents are ordered to wera a yellow star on their clothes and paint a yellow star on their houses.

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    Jews are forbidden to communicate with their neighbors

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    The Jews of Somorja are deported to a ghetto in Nagymagyar.

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    Her father is taken away to a Hungarian forced labor camp

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    All books, documents, and holly scrolls are burned but she secretly keeps a notebook with some pens.

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    Every guy who had a beard was required to shave it off.

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    Ghetto Nagymagyar is liquidated so they are taken to Ghetto Dunaszerdahely. She gives her notebook and pens to a young Hungarian soldier for safekeeping.

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    Ghetto Dunaszerdahely is liquidated so ther are put on cattle cars.

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    They all arrive in Auschwitz where she is seperated from her brother and her aunt. She finds out her aunt was killed in the gas chamber.

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    They are taken to camp Plaszow.

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    Camp plaszow is evacuated and they are put on trains going to Auschwitz.

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    They arrive in Auschwitz where a number is tattooed on their left arms. At night whenever everybody is in their beds one of the poles breaks and the beds above her come crashing down on hey mother.

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    Her mother is taken to the infirmary becauseof what happened with the beds.

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    While her mother was in the infirmary she did not get much better so they were going to kill her but she smuggles her mother out of the infirmary.

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    They all stand for selection fo whether they are going to the gas chambers or to Augsburg. She is put in the gas chamber section but her mother is put in the section for Augsburg. She escaped and meets her mother in the Augsburg transport.

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    They arrive in Augsburg with 500 other women
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    They work all day throught the 6 monts they're at Augsburg.

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    They are taken to Muhldorf but then her and her mother are transferred to Waldlager. In Waldlager they see there brother again across a barbed wire fence.

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    Waldlager is evacuated. They are put on trains

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    They are mistakenly released from the prison cars. She finds her brother again and then they are recaptured and put back on the train.

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    The train of prisoners is attacked by the U.S. Air Force near Poking.

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    They are liberated from the trains by the U.S. army at the Seeshaupt train station in Bavaria.

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    Germany surrenders.

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    They are taken to a transit camp called Flack Kaserne.

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    They arrive back in their hometown, Somorin.

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    They recieve nes that their father has died.

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    She is back in school. Her mother, brother, and her are making plans to go to the U.S.