Auschwitz concentration camps?

Question

Okay, so i just read the short story "Going Home to Auschwitz" It's basically about this jewish girl who was hiding (like Anne Frank) Her father survived the war under a false identity. So, this means.. somehow he escaped the concentration camps and got past the guards. This is my task:
Assume the role of either the grand mother or grand father. (parents of the father who escaped) You know that within minutes the guards will enter your building, take you outside and kill you. This is your only chance to write your son a letter and have it smuggled out of Auschwitz. You have not seen or heard from him in a couple of years.
I have to write an emotional letter to the father that escaped, pretending that i am his parents. I need to use some historical details.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions for how i should write this letter? What i should include? An idea for how he escaped? (I get to make up how he escaped the camps"


p.s- thanks to everyone who answers!

historical details?

Answer 1

It should be a letter of concern for their son, a letter asking for forgiveness that they (the parents) were not there to care for him, and a letter asking that the son never forget, nor let the world forget, what was done to his people.

Please take the time to research this project on your own - read the stories of the people who died, and those that survived, look at the photos, and take try to imagine the horrific scale of cruelty that humans imposed on other humans. Don't look at this as an assignment, look at it as an opportunity to learn how the world should not behave.

Here are some links to help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp

http://www.auschwitz.dk/

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=auschwitz&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

Answer 2

Auschwitz concentration camp was the largest concentration camp and was in Poland. The name of the camp is taken from the nearest town which was Oswiecim which in German translates to Auschwitz. There are three main camps and many sub camps. Life for the prisoners was not good as the living conditions were very bad and food supplies were worse. When the Nazis moved out of the camp because the Russians were approaching, they marched some prisoners away from the camp. The Russians liberated the camp and freed over seven thousand prisoners who had not been fit to march. It was estimated that several million prisoners died at Auschwitz, either by the gas chamber or by the poor conditions in the camps.

Answer 3

research .. use wikipedia or google ... it was extremely hard to escape auschwitz (or in its polish name oswiecim) it was called auschwitz due to the nazi's not knowing how to pronounce polish town names.

I have been the auschwitz birkenau camp ... i cant tell you my personal opinion of the place ... as i walked around with a heavy heart and silent.

But it is true with regards to the animals and birds not going near or flying over the camp. it is silent.

Auschwitz birkenau camp has the camp inside a parameter fence that if workers crossed they had a short time to get bad on the safe line or they were shot dead.
I guess the only way i can imagine anyone escaping prior to the russian armys liberation of the camps in the area as there is two auschwitz camps.

Is if you work for the nazis in some capacity, so you are at least outside the camp occassionally.

good luck with it

Answer 4

Well if I'm about to be killed, I probably would write to my child that I loved him ,that he should not dwell in the past and move forward. And tell him good bye. I put the Holocaust Memorial Museum web site, they are a lot of survivors stories and I think they can help you better than I can

Answer 5

research

Answer 6

use big words... teachers like that