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Personal Narrative: My Home, Cooped Up In The Ghetto
If I was forced from my home, cooped up in the Ghetto, and worn down on a horrifying cattle car ride, I think my spiritual state would be much weaker, unlike Elie Wiesel's, whose spiritual state gets stronger. To have all this done to me because of my religion would make me think to deny any religion, let alone study the Jewish religion especially if rumors came around that people of my religion were being taken from their hometowns, and sometimes killed, and the people who were doing it were slowly coming closer to my home taking all my religious brothers and sisters in my path, I would be absolutely terrified.
Before then, if I would have spent about(like Eliezer did) only studied the Talmud and KabbalahThen those people prosecuting my religious

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