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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