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Marie Vischer Elliott: Surviving a WWII Concentration Camp to Discover Hope

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The Miracle of Laughing in the Camp

The food in the camp was terrible and it was very little not sufficient to keep people alive so my mom did bring some peanut plants or peanuts and she planted them. Sometimes for punishment we would go three days without food if somebody had done something that wasn't appropriate and they didn't like we would go without food for three days. I am kind of amazed at the fact that there were people who came out there a laugh and then of course the jubilation that you could hardly believe that the is now is going to be an endYou know it was kind of incredible. To me it's a miracle that anybody actually came out of their laugh including my grandmother and of course Georgie later on

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