Back In Time 

March 30th 2016 

Dear noodle;

It was one of those nights that I couldn't sleep and remembered the past:

It was a hot summer night when my window was opened for fresh air. I was trying to sleep but I was thinking about the Holocaust and what was going to happen next. I heard some weird sounds that weren't familiar, I looked at my sisters who were sleeping in their bunk beds quietly. It was hard to see in pitch black with blurry eyes. Suddenly the door opened; my mom was looking stressed. I asked her if something was wrong because she had her backpack. Even if I didn't want to hear the answer, I had to face it. "We're leaving". I felt every single second of my life going through my brain. I was lost in my memories. When I came back to reality I had to pack three items; my teddy bear, my diary and a piece of my favourite chocolate bar. We were going to hide inside the Frank family's house. Their daughter was actually my friend but not too close. My teddy bear was keeping me safe, my diary was keeping my secrets and the chocolate was to eat in an emergency case. Why were we leaving? My mom received a letter from the Nazis that told her that she should go to the Auschwitz concentration camp. We couldn't leave her so my father had to decide on hiding with the Frank's. I felt dejected. It was a disappointment for me because all of these years I spent in this beautiful house, were now sliding through my hands. I heard that we had to go to a concentration camp. But we can't go because the conditions there are not good and there is the Typhus disease which is deadly. My thoughts are towards us being liberated in few months. I'm feeling anxious, I'm scared that someone will betray us; Tell the Nazis that we were hiding. If something like that happens to us we will have to leave for the concentration camps. I think we will be hiding for the next three or four months. My mom told me that we were going to hide in an Annex. It's a secret place where you can only reach from the bak of a bookshelf. All of these were happening because of Hitler and his German Workers Party. All the German people thought that everything will be okay when he came to power. But nobody knew what he was doing to Jews, disabled people, homosexuals and asocials.

Now I could sleep, I cleared my mind and felt my eyelids closing.

-idil

Fairness

                                                                Fairness

March 29th 2016

Dear noodle,

I think that everybody is equal in this world; African, American; Jewish, Christian; Asian, Black. It dose not matter as long as you’re a human. To accept that everyone is equal you can start treating all groups of people the same way. For example don’t say something bad to Jewish people and then say something nice to a group of christians. Sometimes I hate people for what they do but then I look at their reasons, maybe I’ll still hate them but they need respect. I would risk my life for my family because I love them more than myself.  But in another case some people deserve to be treated differently. To give an example; Hitler. He did so many bad stuff, started the holocaust and was the reason of between six and fourteen million peoples death. When I’m not treated fairly I get frustrated because It’s like every kid in the class working hard and earning some chocolate but you’re not getting chocolate even if you worked really hard too. But as another point I get happy when people accept me as who I am. It makes me feel better and see that people actually love the real me. Lastly if Hitler didn’t come to power the holocaust wouldn’t be done. More importantly the genocide wouldn’t have happened.

sincerely, idil