voivoivoi183

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Reply to What are some books that you found interesting to read, but were also very confronting? by ssunnysidesup

I read Voices From the Holocaust, a book containing the stories of survivors. Very interesting to read about what happened from real people’s perspectives but also very grim and super depressing. One account has stuck in my mind of a young girl who was marched miles to a field in the middle of nowhere with a load of other people, made them dig a trench, made them all strip naked and shot them all and dumped their bodies in the trench. Somehow she survived being shot and had to hide for hours in the pile of dead bodies of people she knew, waiting for the nazis to leave and eventually she climbed out and had to try and find help, alone and naked and absolutely terrified. The sense of dread was palpable. An absolutely devastating story.

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