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Entry #2

Elie (Kenan): Today was the worst. i can't say i neccesarily hate the hungarian policemen, or the Swedish, they have no choice, the Germans are who i hate the most of all. If i were to live only a year from today, then my birthday wish would be a German Pin~ata, not a Pin~ata that looks like a german, but a geman stuffed with Candy, tied up so that it may take me longer to beast the candy out of him with a stick, rather than out of a cardboard replica. I have just realized that i may never see my house again, or my mother, or my sisters. The Beadle was right abbout the invasion, if only we would have listened. I now can only pray, hoping that god will answer my prayers.

Entry #3

Elie (Kenan): I do not like the trains which the Germans forced us into. They are always cramped, and there is never enough water for anyone to get a drink. It also smells, there is either someones last meal, or undiscarded waste to make it smell like the horse stable that it truly is. The first concentration camp was not too bad, Auschwitz was horrifyingly terrible, and all of the men there were terrible as well. We have now arrived at the newest concentration camp (Kenan forgets name of such said "Concentration camp") the man who runs our quarters is not nearly as bad as the previous, in fact, he is raather kind, shows comapssion, and seems to look forward to our faint dream of release as much as we do. so far, father and i have gotte out of all the hard work by not showing any signs of tradesworth of any value. hopefully we will be released or shot before any hard labor ensues. Being shot certainly would be better than this living nightmare...

Entry #4

Elie (Kenan): I Hate the "dentist", who ended up a fake, he tried to take out my gold tooth. I ended up stalling long enough for him to get caught in his attempt at a quick profit. However, later, after cruel treatment towards my father, i was forced to give it up so that he wouldn't be tortured day after day. I made quite the discovery, although it cost me 30 lashes, or so, but i couldn't keep track afer 15. One of the Nazi's under power was having his way with a young girl, Polish, i think. Anyway, i can only imagine how mother and the sisters are faring...

Entry #5

Elie (Kenan): I can no longer live, dealing with what i have seen now. I have witnessed an unneccesary amount of cruelty for any one being, let alone a teenage boy. I'm not sur i really even care to live, to go on; what i witnessed was more than enough to satisfy my idea of death. I witnessed the hangings, which were not bad, the soup tasted well, actually quite tasteful in comparison to the past. However, after the last hanging, the one of tthe boy no older than i, made the soup taste as though new corpses were an ingredient. The child was not heavy enough to shut the lungs, apparently, so it took long over an hour for him to die, and we were forced to wastch every second of it.

Entry #6

Elie (Kenan): Liberation at last! I saw the first american tank outside the camp gates today, shortly after the underground force took over the camp. I lost father, and have high doubts that mother or any of my sisters made it either. We were marched nonstop from dawn 'til dusk each day, losing many of our numbers during the march. Later, we boarded a train, not very many survived the long haul in the box car. Out of the one hundred of the one thousand that boarded the train, only twelve survived. i had to do it all on my foot, which had turned the snow red with blood after every step. I am now free, and will keep the memories of all those who died, alive within my journal..... Farewell.