Vladek paper
Vladek
Vladek is a Jewish man who survived the holocaust. Vladek went into hiding when the holocaust started. Vladek only hid for a while with his family before a man found them while he was searching their supposed to be empty house, for "food." The man reported the Jews to the Nazi's. Later that day a small group of Nazi soldiers captured them and sent them off to a refugee camp.
The holocaust started because of race and the nazi's hated what the Jews belived in. Hitler did not like the jews at all. Vladek was seperated from most of his family including his wife. He knew he could not give up like almost all of the other Jews in the camps. Vladek felt like he had to be an active survivor and not just one of the lucky ones.
Vladek became an active survivor by working a whole lot. He worked so hard and sometimes got extra food, and talking of food. Vladek rations his food so he would eat half his bread one day, and saved the other half for the next day. Sometimes Vladek would recive a crate full of chocolate, and cigeretts. He dident smoke so to help himself be even more of an active survivor. He would trade other jews his smokes for their bread.
When Vladek was on the train to another refugee camp, him and 100 other jews in one train car were givin a small peice of bread and a small blanket. The train was really packed so know one would be able to move around. Vladek tho hung his blanket up and sat in it and slept in it like a hammock. He hung it from the ceiling of the train car. When he felt dehydrated he would reach his hand out the car and grab some snow to eat. Everyday on that train all of the people would die one by one. Vladek dident want to touch them just in case they might have a disease he could get.
In the next camp that Vladek has arived to after the very long train ride, he saw dead people everywhere. He then became sick with a disease that was going through the camp and killing all of the Jews faster then they already were dieing. He was givin a peice of bread one day and to ration it he stuffed it under his pillow for later because he felt to weak to eat it then. Vladek looked so dead from the illness, the guards thought he was dead. So they took the bread from under his pillow and Vladek couldent yell so he started banging his shoe against the bed so the guard only gave him back half of his bread.