My name is Camie, and I am a World War 2 survivor. My life is going amazing compared to my life 20 years ago. I will never forget the day they found us, just like I will never forgive my father for betraying us. I still cannot believe how one man could go from loving his family unconditionally, to telling the Nazis where they were for his own survival. I remember the exact date. September 15 1935; the day the Nuremberg Laws were established. The day my father was told he could not be with my mother anymore. The day he left. Of course my family fell apart after this day, my father was forced to join the Nazis since he was married to a Jew, and my mother was forced to work in the factory. My father kept our hiding spot a secret for the longest time, until his life was threatened, and he was suspected of knowing the location of Jews. When my father’s life was threatened, he told the Nazis where we were. Sending us to concentration camps. My mother and I were separated when we were put in those cattle cars, and I did not have any brothers or sisters. I never saw my mother again after that, there were so many people running around everywhere. Screaming for each other, crying hysterically. We were beaten, starved and pushed so far past our limits, that most of us did not even survive a week in those camps. The camp commander was a terrible man, ever so often we would go a week with no food. We were forced to wear rags, and uncomfortable wooden shoes, always being promised death. For everybody else that promise was kept, for me it was not. I failed to mention, I was the only survivor in that concentration camp. I owe my life to that man on the horse, not only for saving my life, but for adopting me as well. Allowing me to have a second chance at living freely. I now have 3 amazing kids and a husband who I love unconditionally, and I know they love me unconditionally too.

Analysis: I wrote this fictional memoir based on the tragedies of World War 2. In my fictional memoir there is a girl named Camie, who’s had a Jewish mother and a German father. Her father ended up betraying their family after the Nuremberg Laws were established, and he became a Nazi. Once his life was at risk Camie’s father turned in their hiding spot, so Camie and her mother were sent to concentration camps. Her life became terrible until she was adopted by the man who saved her. My fictional memoir was written in first person, in a Jewish girls point of view. The struggle in my memoir is that Camie’s dad betrayed them and sent them off to concentration camp, where Camie struggled to stay alive, but succeeded.

(This is a picture of my mother and I waiting to get on to the cattle carts, along with many other Jews)

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