Original Writing Coursework - Auschwitz

... Original Writing Coursework - Auschwitz A piercing scream tore through the frosty November air. Eliora Abkowicz awoke with a violent start, as she did most days, but quickly realised that it was merely the dawn experiment. Relief flooded through her - another morning and she was still alive, she had not been selected for murder. Sinking back onto the rotting wooden planks, she glanced around the small room. Four stone walls, a frozen floor, a tightly shut door with only a minuscule amount of light filtering through a gap in it. Beside her, five bodies, little more than skeletons, living corpses, alive but merely shells of human beings. Elli was simply another of them, emaciated and decayed, death upon them all like a hellish shadow. 'Four weeks in this She'ol, four weeks of utter torture.' Elli thought back to her former life, how far away it seemed now. Oh, the

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