David Abrams

David Abrams was born 1928 in Romania and as he told his story it was remarkable and depressing at the same time. He was fifteen years old during the time of the Holocaust, and a survivor of Auschwitz. He is a very strong man that never lost faith witch was very inspiring to hear. He began to talk about his life before the war living with his family witch only ten percent of them lived thought the war. He spoke about his birth mother only for a short time cause she had died when he was six days old, so he did not know that much about her. He had four older sisters and three younger brothers that he loved dearly. Then he talked about his father and his Rabi, he was very close to both of them and looked up to them with the highest respect. He went to an all boys Jewish school far away from his house where he had to be careful on the way home cause the gentile boys would pick on him and beat him up cause he was Jewish, even before the war. Although his family was very committed Jews they did not live in a Jewish neighborhood, but they did take months to prepare for Hanukkah and they still knew alot of other Jews. Furthermore as time past the Germans became stronger and started to gather up the Jews, for the ghettos they came and told his family that they had a day to pack up and that they would be moved into the ghettos the next morning. David was able to bring some books and a few clothes in witch he kept even after the Nazis went thought everyone bags. His father luckily had died that January before his family moved into the ghettos David was glad that he did not have to see the living conditions. Then as time passed they were put on to the trains to go to the camps as they were all told that they were going to better conditions and jobs so they willing got on to the trains not knowing they were all going to die. It took three days on the train and by the time they got to the camp a lot of people had already died, and the moment David got off the train he was pulled away from his grandfather and was told they could only see each other on Sundays, but he soon found out that was a lie too when he was told that the smoke coming from the towers were his family members. Some time later him and some other young boys were moved to another camp were they were to dig tunnels but did not know why most likely it was just to work them to death. One of the other Jews that was moved with him was his Rabi's son which became his best friend and they shared everything witched helped them survive. He states that he was very luckily to be the age he was and just being at the right places at the right times and he also gives most of the credit to god for letting him make it out alive. Before the war was over the men in charge of the camp led all of the Jew on a three day walk were they tough they would all die off but David knew him and his friend had to keep going because all the ones that collapsed they would kill at the end of the night. After the three days they woke up to find all the solders gone and he knew the war was over. Then the Americans came took him to a hospital were he was able to eat and sleep, so glad to have survived. But then as he was all better he still did not know were to go or how to get there, and he struggled on his way but made it back to his house were he found his two of his sisters and that was it. eventually he made it to America were he lives now with his wife and children, and still has some flash backs when he walks by a bakery and they have thrown away bread that is still good makes him very sick to think how many people it could have saved. David was an amazing man to have gone through what he did and to have survived.

"A lot a lot off lucky lucky incidents with faithful events that I can attribute that I was able to survive."

"Never give up hope..."