Gerda was in captivity for three years, and walked in the death march for three months. Her time in camps was, "the most intolerable time."
As Gerda and her mother were marched out town, she was separated from her mother by a German soldier saying, "You are too young to die."
She was soon placed in a train with her fellow teenage girls, here she befriended a tall red haired girl, named Liesel Steppe. Gerda, Liesel, and Suze made pact to protect each other.
Gerda and Liesel made a bet to pass the time watching the blank fields fly by them on the train. She agreed to bet a quart of strawberries to say that they would be liberated within three years.
The girls were taken to a factory that made fabrics, it was headed by a mean-looking women who in truth had a very kind heart. On multiple occasions the women motivated Gerda to go to work, even when she was sick, so that she would not be grouped into the "sick" group, many of whom were immediately killed.
One day Gerda watched a train pass by, and developed a crazy idea to jump onto that train. But just as she tried to she was shot in the back, and locked away into the most confining wards. Gerda began to become increasingly desperate, and even considered suicide like many of the girls surrounding her.
As Gerda and her mother were marched out town, she was separated from her mother by a German soldier saying, "You are too young to die."
She was soon placed in a train with her fellow teenage girls, here she befriended a tall red haired girl, named Liesel Steppe. Gerda, Liesel, and Suze made pact to protect each other.
Gerda and Liesel made a bet to pass the time watching the blank fields fly by them on the train. She agreed to bet a quart of strawberries to say that they would be liberated within three years.
The girls were taken to a factory that made fabrics, it was headed by a mean-looking women who in truth had a very kind heart. On multiple occasions the women motivated Gerda to go to work, even when she was sick, so that she would not be grouped into the "sick" group, many of whom were immediately killed.
One day Gerda watched a train pass by, and developed a crazy idea to jump onto that train. But just as she tried to she was shot in the back, and locked away into the most confining wards. Gerda began to become increasingly desperate, and even considered suicide like many of the girls surrounding her.
However she met her father at one point, who told her that thinking these thoughts were “cowardly” and told her to wear her ski boots constantly.