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Jack

What’s going on? We didn’t know War against the Jews “Jews out! Jews out!”
 * __They weren’t going to take my soul __**

Shot on the spot Nothing I can do Here we were Auschwitz

We knew the stories Gassed, burned It was beyond belief They weren’t going to take my soul

Germans locked us in Jews crying alone They kept coming <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">40 Boxcars full of dead bodies

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Using the Jews own fat as fuel <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Worst thing I’ve seen in my life <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">No escape from this prison <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">We were walking dead

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">War against the Jews <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">It was inhumane <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">That was it, that simple <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">But they weren’t going to take my soul


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rationale: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The rationale behind the poem was to express the horrors of the holocaust and how it affected such a large group of people. It was not just a race or nationality that was targeted, but the people of a similar religion. The people killed were of multiple races, nationalities, and skin color. As stated, it was a war against the Jews and it did not take long for the stories of Auschwitz and the other concentration camps to reach the ears of Jews across Europe. Jews were burned, gassed, and tortured while in these camps and the future for them never showed any sign of getting better. However, the poem shows that small light of hope in the lines, “they weren’t going to take my soul.” Just that small line shows unbelievable strength to fight for survival and to push through the horrifying era of the death camps. All survivors today and all those that were murdered showed this strength to continue on during this trying time which shows how powerful the will to survive can be.