This week, our class watched a video called "One Survivor Remembers". It is about a woman named Gerda Wiessmann who goes through the terrible times of the Holocaust. She was fifteen and she came home from a vacation in August 1939. In September, World War II started and in a few hours the Germans took over her hometown. Soon after, there came orders that men had to register for forced labor and that included her brother. She said her brother was her protector and that she loved him very much. When he left it was very hard for her. Next came her dad. The Jews were forced to consecration camps. His dad had to go and then it was just her mom and her. Then the Jewish women and their children were also deported. When the German's asked for their ages, Gerda and her mom were separated. She never saw her mother again. On the train to the camp, she met a girl named Suse Kunz and they made a bet for how long the war was going to be. The bet was for a quart of strawberries and some whipped cream. The thing that made me feel really bad was her saying that they had finally had been liberated. Suse Kunz was still alive and Gerda had lost the bet so she had to give her strawberries. When Suse went to go get water, she fainted and died. A good thing I thought was cool was that she married a Jewish solider that came to come get them after they had been liberated. Gerda had to go through many things in her life, but during it all she stayed strong.
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