"I looked out of the inclosed crawl space. Goeth and his dogs where coming closer, all shining black boots and a crisp black uniform. One of his dogs lofted its ears and looked right at me. I pulled away from the wall. I was almost choking in my own fear. I pushed my way up and out of the crawl space I gasped, filling my lungs. This was my chance. My heart was thumping, but it made me feel alive, and feeling alive made me want to stay alive" (Gruener 173). In this quote, it explains one of the very many incidents he encountered as he traveled the road of WWII. Through this experience, he discovered just how hard it really was going to be to survive theThat these struggles that he has faced and will face further on into the war.
"There was no water. We ate snow when we walked the death march. We slept in the open where there was no barn or shed to be found as far as we could see, which was most nights, sleeping on top of one another like dogs for the warmth. The Kapos and Nazis had fires to keep them warm. At least in the camps we had shelter to keep warm and the weather off of us. Out here, the elements killed more prisoners than our guards did that day" (Gruener 167-168). This quote shows another hardship that Yanek had to go through. He was traveling the death march by foot from Auschwitz Concentration Camp to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, both in Germany. It was a hard long trip that took about 6 days to get to their destination. They had only the water that fell from the sky. There was no warmth, only cold dark air in the sky around them. It seemed hopeless.
"One night after a hard days work digging trenches, I collapsed to the floor of my barrack. I thought past the pain, "Was this how a prisoner slipped from being a person to a muselmanner. I didn't have the strength to climb into my bunk,. I was desperate to get up but I couldn't make my legs obey me, couldn't pull up my own weight with my stick and straw arms. But if I didn't get up soon, they would beat me for not being in my bunk" (Gruener 84). Finally, this made me think, have I underestimated the horror of this war? A once strong man slipping to a muselman over a short period of time is scary. Made me think the Nazis had no regret, no guilt, no sorrow. They knew how they were treating the innocent people was wrong. This quote describes all the problems with WWII. The Jews were held captive because of their religion and worked until death. They ate watery soup and soggy bread as the fresh aroma of the food they once had filed the room from the Nazis. It was torture and I don't think people nowadays fully appreciate the pain that they really had to go through.
"There was no water. We ate snow when we walked the death march. We slept in the open where there was no barn or shed to be found as far as we could see, which was most nights, sleeping on top of one another like dogs for the warmth. The Kapos and Nazis had fires to keep them warm. At least in the camps we had shelter to keep warm and the weather off of us. Out here, the elements killed more prisoners than our guards did that day" (Gruener 167-168). This quote shows another hardship that Yanek had to go through. He was traveling the death march by foot from Auschwitz Concentration Camp to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, both in Germany. It was a hard long trip that took about 6 days to get to their destination. They had only the water that fell from the sky. There was no warmth, only cold dark air in the sky around them. It seemed hopeless.
"One night after a hard days work digging trenches, I collapsed to the floor of my barrack. I thought past the pain, "Was this how a prisoner slipped from being a person to a muselmanner. I didn't have the strength to climb into my bunk,. I was desperate to get up but I couldn't make my legs obey me, couldn't pull up my own weight with my stick and straw arms. But if I didn't get up soon, they would beat me for not being in my bunk" (Gruener 84). Finally, this made me think, have I underestimated the horror of this war? A once strong man slipping to a muselman over a short period of time is scary. Made me think the Nazis had no regret, no guilt, no sorrow. They knew how they were treating the innocent people was wrong. This quote describes all the problems with WWII. The Jews were held captive because of their religion and worked until death. They ate watery soup and soggy bread as the fresh aroma of the food they once had filed the room from the Nazis. It was torture and I don't think people nowadays fully appreciate the pain that they really had to go through.