Flashbacks

When Yanek was in concentration he often found himself daydreaming of times before the Nazis came to his home town, Krakow. When Yanek was just a young boy of ten when the Nazis came. He was like any boy but he loved going to school and reading. He lived with his Mother and Father in a small apartment flat, but it was perfect for there family. Yanek also enjoyed playing soccer in the streets with the other kids.

Yaneks hometown, Krakow, was a nice town. Much of Yanek's family lives in the same neighborhood as his. His town has parks, grocery stores, and movie theaters(Yanek's favorite). When his town was turned to a ghetto everything changed from the happy little neighborhood to a time of death and sadness. All people who weren't Jews had to move out and many more Jews had to come in. Their had to be at least four families per flat.

The Nazis turned Krakow into a ghetto by building a wall around the town itself and making sure that their was no way out. But it wasn't the Nazis working on the wall, they used the prisoners, the Jews, to build the wall. Sometimes they worked them so hard that they died of exhaustion.

But while Yanek was still in all the concentration camps he had no time to think about the past as much as he wanted to. People were being shot for standing out or by looking at one of the people in charge the wrong way. He had no time unless he was going to survive. If he survived he could remember all the times before and during the Holocaust. But now he had to survive.