The+Peace+Makers

This has nothing to do with a book, but i haven't wrote for a while.. I made a mistake, my life went from "livin' the life" to //ruining my life.// I have a lot of potential, I could pass all of my classes, not get in trouble, and respected by many people. I just have that kind of personality. Well lets start off with, I chose my friends before school, And on top of everything, I gave up way to quickly. Everyone knows that i was doing things outside of school that are not good on me, and my life. Even though i was failing classes, people hated me, and i was skipping one class a lot, I was happy as could be, cause i was with my friends all the time, until my mom got a phone call, from my councelor. See my mom thought i was in school today, when really i wasn't and my councelor called asking to talk to me, haha i WASNT HOME EITHER. So i got caught and my councelor told my mom my grades, All F's and one D.. I was screwed. Grounded immideatly, which sucks a lot, but more importantly i let my mom down. That is BY FAR the shittiest feeling in the world. My point in writting all this, not that you all care, but seriously, do good in school. You have 2 more years left, dont ruin it now. I know from experience, its not worth it, and you lose a lot more than you think. You lose freedom, respect, possibly friends, and your own mom cant even look at you without dissapointment in her eyes. Seeing her today made me cry a lot, made me feel stupid, and it just broke my heart. All cause i wanted to have some fun.. Damn, whats wrong with me? Peace, -Sarah Faris.

To Sarah, Indeed there are those years where someone fucks up. Sometimes it's one year, sometimes it's every year of a school career. I've been struggling with my grades and myself since my mom died. I've basically just lost the will to actually get into it and try. Of course I try and keep my grades up, to keep my parents happy and me ungrounded, but for me it's a listless thing to do. I don't see anything coming out of it anymore. I do want to graduate. I do want to get into a decent college. I do want to be successful and have a wonderful family with someone I love. Right now, it's just so hard for me to see that ever happening. It seems like I'm going to end up living off of my parents or my grandparents for the rest of their lives most of the time. But I also see a successful life, just waiting for me to straighten up and buckle down on these last few weeks of my sophomore year, in my years of school to come. You can see that for yourself, can't you? I'm more than willing to help you with anything you need. I'm more than willing to get together after school and tutor someone if they need help. I can't necessarily help you in subjects like math, or science, or anything that the left side of your brain is used for. But I can try, and I will try; but only if you let me. With deep love, and understanding, Dakota Yost

Dakota- Wow, Im really sorry- But you know what, Your right. Ive realized everything happens for a reason, and you won't fail, unless you choose to- I won't, I will not give up. Lately everythings been kinda going to shit for me, but then instantly turns around. 50 bad things happen, but i forget about them with one good thing following behind. Im good and science and math. :P if you ever need help dude, im here. Your amazing at art dude. Your a reallyyy cool girl- Nice. And i appreciate you responding to what i wrote. It means a lot.. Sorry its taken 50 years to respond to you lol. Hey if you ever want to talk. anything. I will be here- I know i dont know u very well, but i have open ears, and can relate to a lot.. <3 Thank you. Your a strong girl dude. Seriously, very strong, wise, and intelligent dude. I always thought u were so damn smart. :P Love always, Sarah. This book is really awesome. It's going to teach us soo much about the war and stuff. I'm one of the soldiers. From my prospective, I think that we're being really nice to the people. We could just be killing them all, but we aren't. - w2cox

Yeah, it's really cool. I kinda read ahead and it's pretty cool. I'm a soldier's wife. From what he's told me, we've begun to move in. The Jews have no respect for us; it's quite disgusting. It's good my husband is out there, teaching them how to be proper.

I wish i read ahead. I would know soo much more but I'm good and stayed with the class. Unlike some people. -w2cox

☮Hi My name is Elie, im 13 years old and live in a small town of Sighet named Transylvania. One day all foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, and one of the foreigners was Moishe the Beadle. All of the Jews were crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police. The Jews were taken to the Galician forest and ordered to dig trenches, and then killed. I found all this out by Moishe, cause he was one of the few that were rescued. Three years later, when i was 16, German soldiers invaded Hungarian, and Jews slowly lost all freedom.☮ -w2faris

My son Elie want to engage in studys that I think he is to young for. I want him to wait untill he is a little bit older so he can understand a little more. But in the mean time, the war has begun. It is affecting everyone for the worst. The Jews are dieing quicky and we are not sure what to do. -w2murray. [Thats all that I really got out fo that small part of the book that we have read so far.]

Shuddup, Harrison. :P

w2cox guard 10/06/08 I don't feel bad for the jews at all. They deserve it. We as guards do what we want. They should suffer. Were going to kill them, it doesn't affect me at all though. The jews could easily hide from us, but they're not that smart so it helps us out.

10-6-08 Elies father. Thing are getting worse buy the minute. Guards are taking children, the elderly and the crippled outside and beating them to death with the butts of their guns. The little kids are dieing a thurst and yet, they get no water. My family and I are waiting to get our breath of freash air. We are waiting to get our one break. We have no food. But instead of being hungary, we are exsausted. The rest that we need but arn't getting is taking a tole on us. I wanted to be strong for my family and keep it together, but I fell apart while the guards took us outside and hurt us even more. I really do want to be strong for my family but I don't know how much longer I am going to last. We went to the cattle wagons. When doing so, we had to give all of our valubles up or we would be shot on the spot. There is this one woman who is not taking the seperation from her husband and 2 sons well. She kept screaming "FIRE! FIRE! LOOK AT THE FIRE!" We all think that he heat is getting to her. It's making her see things that arn't there. The one son that got to stay with her just heald on to her skirt tightly, not really understanding what is going on. "FIRE! FIRE! LOOK AT THE FIRE!" That's all that she said for a while. Some ot the other people on the cattle wagon had to gag her to get her to be quite. Her son even more terrified then before, just sat there crying harder and harder every time he seen his mother being gaged. After time had pasted and she had stayed quiet, she broke the scilence yet again. "FIRE! FIRE! LOOK AT THE FIRE!" We all believed her at first but still expected to see nothing. But we were wrong. As we looked out the windows we noticed fire pouring out of a chimney and turning the sky into nothing but big black clouds. It had this strange smell to it. We all sat there wondering what the unfamiliar yet horrible smell was. Could it be the smell of buring flesh? Could it be bodies being burned? As horrible as it sounds it was. -w2murray

(This is an actual pic of bodies burning in the Holocaust.) ___

The Guard's Wife, Dakota Yost; w2yost When my husband came to see me in the barracks, he smelled horrible, like sweat, blood, and acrid smoke. He told me that the Jews were shipped off in cattle cars...in total honesty, I feel a little sorrow for them...eighty to a car, barely able to sit down... My friend Erika said her husband could hear the screaming of a woman of the fires. "Fire! Fire! Look at the fire!" even though I wasn't there, even though I have nothing to worry about, it still brings terror to my heart. To even imagine hearing that shriek of terror stops me cold. Children and elderly people are being killed as my manuscript takes over this blank paper. I can see the fires from mine and my husband's barracks. Being a mother, it pains me to know that children are being killed...even if they are Jews, it brings tears to my eyes to know that these helpless little beings are being murdered...it's tragic. If there was any way to stop this, I'd try...oh, how I'd try...  w2murray-10/22/08-Elies father After these few weeks, possibly months, (I don't even know) the camp has looked like and epidmic war had just ended. But on a happier note, Me and Elie got taken to a good Kommando. The youngman that asked us if we wanted to go, had a very high intrest in Elies shoes. Eile wouldnt give them up. They were the last thing that he had that he could call his. But in the long run, they got stolen anyways. Before we came, they had to do a health check. We were checked my doctors and dentists. For some odd reason, they had an intrest in the gold crowns on peoples teeth, if they had one. Needless to say, Elie had one. They took his number down and put him on a list with everyone else who did. We got to see and orchestra play. Most of them were Jews. They wernt aloud to play german music. I guess the german thought that they didn't deserve to. Not suprising. After ariving, we sat there and counted bulbs and bults and other small electronic items. The guards told us that if any of us showed s sign of lazyness, we would be punished for it. Many Polish were there, with the exception of a few french woman. Elie and I were so lucky that we got to stay together. Just me being away from my wife and daughters is enough worry. I can only imagine how Elie would feel if him and I got seperated. I'm quite happy. Elie has made some friends, Yossi and Tibi. Their parents were exterminated in Birkenau. They only had each other. We had a Jew leader. FINNALY! Maybe this won't be as bad as a german leader. One day, a block secretary came and called out Elies number. They told him that his gold crown was going to be removed. Once agian, not suprising. (Let's just say, nothing really surpises us any more.) Still, taking our "valubles". That's pathedic. The closest thing to valubles that we have, is a tooth with a little bit of gold on it. Elie was smart, he got out of it. He told them that he was sick. So they sent him back and told him to come back when he was feeling better. It turns out that the dentist had been taking prisoners gold crowns for a while. All for his own good. Lets just say that he is now a prisoner himself. Elie and I are much happier here. We get a daily bowl of soup and some crust of stale bread. But it's still not like being at home. This day was one of the hardest days for me. Elie got beat up by Idek, the boy that invited us to the Kommando. This boy had been known to have a horrible temper. Elie got punched in the chest and head. He was picked up and thrown to the ground over and over again. By the end, Elie was covered in blood. He just went and sat in the corner trying to hide his fear. In doing do, Idek beat him some more. Poor Elie...I wish that there was something that I could do. After Idek was finnaly done, a french woman tried to calm Elie down as she wiped the blood off of him. This time it was my turn. While loading the deisle motors on to the frieght cars, I guess I showed a sign of lazyness. Idek just screamed at me, "You call that work?!" Then the next thing that I know, I am getting beat with an iron bar. Only a few seconds later and I fell to the ground. The foreman, Franek wanted Elies gold crown, he would not give it to him. Therefore, he sent me to march, which he knows I can't do. So Franek sat there and beat me. Elie tried he hardest to teach me but I don't think that its doing much good. Two weeks fo nothing but marching, gettig beat, and the constant yelling. When is it going to stop?

10.23.08 w2yost, guard's wife When is this madness going to stop? My children are terrified. The screams keep them up at night and give them nightmares...the smell of the furnaces is awful, absolutely dreadful. Camps were moved around today...my husband took me and the children with him. The furnaces here aren't so bad, but there's still a smell, a look...a taste of death here. I was watching the workers while making dinner today...gold teeth were being removed. A young Jewish boy got out of it, I think...he must be really intelligent. However, a few weeks later he was beaten by Idek for it. Thank god that beautiful little French woman was there to help the poor boy...and then in the next days to follow, a man (Most likely his father) was getting harsher beating from that nasty little Idek brat. The man is getting on in life...I can't blame him for getting tired. I was watching them load fuel tanks into freight cars, Idek had another fit, most likely about the Jew not being able to work at Idek's set pace, and beat the poor man with an iron bar. Franek...oh, that nasty man...he wanted the boy's tooth! That high-spirited boy wouldn't give it to him. The elderly Jew was sent out to march and beaten because he couldn't march...horrible...

Guard 10/23 w2cox Those jews are lucky. We could just kill them all right now. But instead, we're putting them to work. I think we're pretty smart. I really don't care about the ones that didn't pass the test. They deserve it. Less confusion for us and we don't have to deal with them anymore. The Russians and the Americans need to stay away from us. They're ruining everything we've worked for. Hopefully soon they'll start a war with each other and let us be. Then we can continue killing the minds of the jews.

Elies Father 10-29-08 w2murray I think that things are getting even WORSE for Elie and I. Because Elie would no give Franek his gold crown, he is making me march when he knows that it is a big chalenge for me. Franek also took our ration of our bread away. I can't believe him, Franek threated Elie. He threated to break Elies teeth; "What would you like? That I break your teeth by smashing your face?!" But sooner or later, he got a famouse dentist from Warsaw to pull it out anyways. Franek then became happy for some reason. He even gave Elie extra soup. But like all happyness here, it didn't last long. The poles were transfured to another camp. The Sunday befor the poles left, our Kommando didn't have to go to work. So we had to go to the depot. The sudden erge to work astonished us. Had we wanted to work? Were they training us like dogs? Anyways, when we got there, Idek put Franek in charge. He pretty much let Franek do what he what he pleased. Besides let us do nothing, Idek wouldn't take that crap. When we had nothing to do, we all too turns wondering through the ware house trying to find something to eat. Even though we got more food now then we used to, we are sitll hungary. While Elie got to the back of the warehouse, he heard noises coming from a room. And being a courious little boy, he went to go "investigate" It turns out that Idek was capulating a young polish girl. Elie coulnt help but laugh. Idek heard him and came out and grabbed Elie by the throat, yelling and telling him, "Just wait kid! You will see what it cost to leave your work! You'll pay for this later! And now go back and to your place!" This was strange, they called out Kommando for roll call an hour and a half early. Everyone was puzzled why. Then kapos gave us a lecture; "An ordanary inmate dose not have the right to mix into other peoples affairs. One of you dose not seem to have understood this point. I shall therefore try to make him understand clearly once and for all. I knew right then and there that they were talking about Elie. They called his number, brought out a creat, made him lay down on his belly. Then they whipped him. While doing so, Idek was counting. He kept stoping in between lashes. he was all the way to eleven; sill going. He finnaly stoped at twenty-five. Elie passed out. People woke him up with cold water. Then the kapos started yelling, "Stand up!" Poor Elie couldnt stay standing. He just kept falling down. Two nice immates helped him up and help him there. Then Idek told him not to tell anyone what he saw or else he would recive five times more then he already got. When I went to wrok on Sunday, Elie got to stay and rest. When the americans bombed the factory, I had fear for Elie. When I returned from work, Elie must have thought that I was dead. When he seen me, his face lit up. I haven't seem him that happy since we have been here. We could tell that the gurads in the watch tower thought that there was trouble coming around the corner. They had their machine guns pointed at us the whole time. So they were being prepared. A young man joined us from Warsaw. He wasn't there for long; he was hung. And we were forced to watched him die a horrible death. That night when we had our soup, it made us cherish how truly amazing life is. And how good the soup really is. :) In the dutch Oberkapo, there was a large amount of weapons found during a serch. His punishment was to be arested and of course, death. The gurads took him to Auschwitz and he never returned. he son was also tortured and killed. The young boy was going to be hung. But this boy have a certain look on his face and so the lageralteste couldn't do it. SS guards took over. They pulled the rope. The boy must have been hanging there for 30 min. He kept trying to take breath after breath. People were asking where the grace of God was. Elie think that was there, hanging on the rope.

☮My name is Elie, i have written for a while.. everything is getting better, yes i still wish i was with my mom and sisters, back at home. In the mean time, staying at the barrocks, Me and dad are still together, we even work together. We get a bowl of soup and some crust of stale bread everyday. I met a French women who, i thought, didnt speak German. A few weeks after working with her, i found out, she only said she didnt speak German for her protection, which is very understandable. Everything was good, until, we had to move to another camp. I got beat, and for my dad, things are also getting worse. I hope one day soon, its all over. w2faris.☮