Directions: Respond to the series of prompts below from the perspective of a (historical fiction) character of your creation. your responses should reflect the types of young people's experiences that actually happened in the years of the Holocaust. you May incorporated details from the ID card(s) you examined and write using either first or third person point of view. You have arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. As you wait to be unloaded from the cattle cars, you hear that families will be kept together and work will not be hard, but you are not sure you can believe this. Once you enter the gates proclaiming 'work makes you free," you know that what you have been told is not true. Use imagery to describe the scene. What do you see, hear, taste, smell? Explain your reactions. What do you do? What do you say? What do you think? What do you feel?

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