Thursday, February 10, 2022

One Day for Holocaust Memorial Day




The theme for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday 27 January was ‘One Day’. Here are some examples of students' writing inspired by this theme.

One Day by Erin H - Year 10

One day. Or was it a week? Maybe a month.

All I know deep down is how much I want to get out of here.

I couldn’t genuinely tell you how long I have been locked up like an animal in this mess of an institution.

All I ever think about is that moment.

That moment: their faces, the rain, the mud; the gut-wrenching shrieks; the constant sniggering of those stuck-up soldiers enjoying each ounce of pain they inflicted upon the innocent families.

I picture me and my family, the moment that would be cemented in my  memory forever.

In Auschwitz, any moment to take a glance away from this hideous mess is always one of a bittersweet moment. I constantly find myself reconciling with the same thoughts.

I am a girl

A daughter

A friend

A family member

And someone who respects their faith.

I am innocent.

Yet, I am locked up like a prisoner who has committed the most heinous of crimes, being myself.

Now my days are all just one,

Nothing remains.



One Day – Anya H Y11

Things are so different nowadays

We stopped appreciating each other a long time ago

Perhaps I could find someone who loves me

Who doesn’t resort to hatred or violence

People want to grow up quick nowadays

I want to toddle in my mother’s heels

And giggle at the sequins they hold

Not playing on the tyre swing from last Summer

People are unhappy nowadays

We grow apart, separated and lost

In the lives which never were our own anyway

Maybe, oh just maybe

Things will look up one day

No more scratching at the walls

To find the freedom we deserve

Or indulging in confusion of not knowing why

One day we’ll find a way

One day

One day

 



One Day by Ellie W – Y11

 

A rush of wind, another train.

“Ok now, hop on quick!” My mother says to me. 

“When will I see you again?” I ask with a quivering lip. 

“You’ll see me again in one day. Now hurry up, you don’t want to miss the train.” 

Little did I know it would be years before I’d see her next... 

 

 

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