January 23, 1941
Dear Journal,
I'm so afraid. I was jus taken from my family last night. I'm so confused. I'm 17 years old. I live in Germany. I am a Jew. I really dont know too much about what is going on. I do know that we are in something called the Holocaust. I keep hearing about someone called Hitler. He is behind all of this. I am a Jew and all of my people hate him. But the Germans hate us. Everyone is either working of being killed. I have not seen my girlfriend. I heard she tried to struggle with a guard and her arm is broken. But she is at a different camp. My job is horrible. I am to load up bodies of the Jews that were killed. I am loading up my people. Some of these faces I recognize. I'm scared. They took my parents last night. My parents are very old so i guess it was decided they could not work. But I am told that in the end we will all die anyway. When they kill you you are marched away with the guards. It is best to go silently because if you object then you are beaten before you reach your death. This is worse. But when the guards take you is not the only way to die here. Many people are dieing because of starvation. They barely feed us. The little rations we do receive is not nearly enough. This camp is full of children. All of us appear to be under the age of 20 with the exception of maybe 10 adults. My parents have always taught me to stay true to myself, my faith, and my God. I am. I will not let anyone destroy my faith. I will continue praying and continue pressing. I pray alone at night. I hear that now they no longer are just putting my people in gas chambers they are burning us to death. I heard its something called "processing". I don't understand how you can treat someone like this. I am alone and afraid.
Praying for tomorrow,
William Somokaw
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