Death Camp

World War II:

     World War II began on September 1, 1939 and ended in 1945. Throughout the war about 50-70 million people were killed. Hitler was very influential in the war. Germany, Italy, and Japan made up the Axis of Power. The Allies were America, France, Britain, and Russia. America became involved after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Some of the negative effects of World War II were aconomic devastation in Europe, trauma, and homelessness. Some of the positive effects include economic growth in America and an increase in women's rights.

Monologue from the Perspective of Isadore Helfing:

     A four year old boy living in Kielce, Poland during the World War II. In September of 1939, my family and I were put in a ghetto, thay called it. My parents were sent to Treblinka, a concentration camp to be killed, and I had the choice of going with them, or staying and being forced tino labor. We rode there in a train for cattle, and the moment we arrived, I see dead bodies, two stories high. They are in front of it and they throw out the bodies because more trains come, so they throw them out. The boys pull the bodies into the graves and I jump in like one of them.

     In Treblinka, you are going down allies as they say, "Man on right, Women at left" so you would all go to the gas chambers. They were pushed in, screamed and pushing each other because they knew, until they were all in. Then they were gassed and slid pout the others side and put into graves. The ones who handled the dead bodies out of the chambers, or the ones who worked with the bodies of the trains.

     "Listen, this is going to be an uprising", the man told me. He said they were giving out ammunition to people who knew how to handle it. The fence around the camp was not electric, so it was easy to jump over. I saw the bullets hit the ground in front of me as we ran into the woods and hid overnight. Many of us got away, but all the others were killed on the spot. We found this out after the war, we counted how many had survived from both parts of the camp altogether--27.