This world, a world of beauty, hope, and joy. It seems great, now. But back then, it's hard to believe what happened, how such a great world could be so bad.
         My name is Isabelle Levine. It was December 12th 1938, In my home land, Austria. I was jewish, celebrating my 15th birthday. We where having a great time, I was chasing my brother John, and my mother was cooking a birthday dinner for me.
         It was all fun in games, until, there was a knock on the door. "Open up!" a voice said. They smashed on the door harder every second. My mom quickly came, and opened the door, I wish I could have stopped her, But not even I knew what was going to happen. She opened the door, And 3 large men walked in and took a hold of her. One of the oversized ape men said "Grab the others!" And so, he did, He grabbed John by his wrist, and threw him out the door. And then one of the scary men grabbed me.
    The sounds of screaming came from me, John, and my mother. What did we do!? My mom yelled at the man. Come on! The man said. You're coming with me.
    It felt like a nightmare. I kept on pinching myself to try to see if I could wake myself up, but it was real. We heard about jewish people like me, being kidnapped, and brought to terrible places, by some devil guy, named Hitler. And now, it was happening to me.
While we where being held, my mom said, Isabelle, you are my light of my life, and you can light up others, So this may be the last time we see each other, for a long, time, but Isabelle, I will see you, again, and again, every day, in your dreams, in your heart, treat people with kindness Isabelle, because thats all I ever wanted for you. I got ahold of my mothers hand for just a second before they sliced trough it telling us to keep our hands to ourselves. Those words that my mom said to me, bring a tear to my eye every time, because I loved her, so I listened to her advice. For ever.