Personal Narrative: My Experience In The Concentration Camp

Before I came to the concentration camp, it was easy to be with your family but I have

been in the concentration came for almost 3 months. In the times I been in the camp, I met my

best friend, Graciela. Ever since I been in the concentration camp, life has been hard for

everyone. In the mornings, you are awakened by the kapos in the 4 in the morning where you

must raise and find your shoes to work. If someone stole your shoes, the person who took them

often means they are send to death. The beds in the concentration camp are the shapeless

straw mattress which you have to make a perfect bed in military manner. For washing, there is

a barrack and to reach the sanitary facility. You only have a couple of minutes, nearly in the

Morning.
Once we get back from work, we head back to over cabin and they do a

evening roll call. Sometimes the evening roll call may take hours but the last evening roll call

took about 10 hours because a prisoner wanted to escape the concentration camp.

Once the roll call was over, everyone would receive dinner which was “soup” with some

spared bread. Me and Graciela never enjoyed the food the concentration camp but we still need

to eat. After we all had finished our dinner, we all go back to our barrack but they never allowed

us to the barrack during the night. The block fuehrer is always waiting for us and our comrades.
The block fuhrer's are the ones who decides who lives and who dies. They were green triangles

which means they are real criminals. They always make us crawl, jump, and makes us run until

we faint but they allowed us to lie down on our straw mattress but it was uncomfortable to lie

down because there was like 5 other people lying down with me and Graciela and we all shared

only one blanket. When one person wanted to go to bed, everyone else had to follow.