Cecilia

Cecilia Halvey

People are not born with hatred, the acquire it. Small town, Everyone knew eachother. Synogauge, Juisism was a religon, but we were hungarians. Simplistic boring life.

Just another thing, it'll blow over. They turned overnight on us, We don't need any Jews in our town, You cheated us last time, Jew! Betray. Depressed; worried.

Nazi's. Dedicated power and energy to Jews, Heil Hitler, The Jews were undoubtly a race, but they are not human. Lies. They kept being taken away. Thats when I stopped talking to God.

Auchwitz. Anything that meant to me in life to me I'm going to leave behind. Striped clothes and shaved heads. That was the last time I saw my father.

The Final Solution. They had us standing ankle deep in water. It seemed like an eternity, Trying to change the color of our eyes. They took away my identity, They're not going to take my soul.

Where is God? What is going on? The bodies were thrown over the fire, and that was it. Burn bodies just to get rid of them quicker. Fourty box cars, absolutely full of dead bodies. I couldn't be seeing this.

The inhumanity of man against man is beyond belief He says I give you three seconds. We swore that we would die for eachother. We did let him down.

Most of them were wearing flannel pajamas, blue and white striped, They were walking dead, skeltons.

I was hoping going back to Auchwitz would bring some closure, It opened up new questions, and new doubts. People want to forget the past. Finally search is over, I know I am not coming back here again.

I was 16 but I was very old. The Germans gave up. Why did I survive, why did God spare me? I was so close to death. Liberation was like a present from the world and that was the first time I spoke to God again. I blame man not God.