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Bergen-Belsen: A Brief Summary

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This book was mainly about the Blumenthal family which was Marion, her brother Albert, her father Walter and her mother Ruth. This story told us about how the family stayed together all during the Holocaust and what they had to do in order to survive. For 6 years the Blumenthal family lived in camps and one of the camps was Bergen-Belsen. For the time that Marion and her family stayed in Bergen-Belsen it was hard for all of them, all they got to eat was a chunk of black bread and watery turnip soup, the camp was overcrowded and it smelled really bad due to the guards burning the bodies of the dead inside the camp. Another camp was called Sternlager or Star camp where they were told that they should be considered lucky. At Star Camp men and women go to meet during the day which meant that Marion and her Mom could see Walter and her brother Albert. During the time they go to see each other they would trade food. Basically the book explained how …show more content…

Marion thought that if she found four perfect pebbles all of her family would survive the holocaust together. This showed that Marion had a lot of faith. But faith was what got her and her family through all the camps and marches. Although shortly after they were liberated Marion’s father passed away but she continued to have hope that her family were gonna get back on their feet and start all over as a happy family. Hope is what got almost everyone through the holocaust and faith I'm the future everyone hoping that the future was gonna get better, after the holocaust Marions family was happy again all because they had faith that things would get better. They survived the holocaust and got back on their feer which means that sometimes great will can get you

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