Introduction
This story takes place during WWII and focuses mainly on the Jewish Holocaust. But there is a big twist!
Elsa is a 21-year-old Jewish orphan who alone has to care for her 18-year-old sister Anna during the time of major Jewish persecution! Elsa doesn't have her ice powers because this story is a major AU (author's universe).
The bulge of the story will take place between 1943 and 1944 because I was informed that this was the time when the Jewish Holocaust was at its worst point with over 1 million people shipped to concentration camps over the summer of 1944!
I will try to make this story as accurate as possible and I hope you enjoy it!
Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland
January 1, 1943
Elsa shivered and looked to the sky. She wished that snow would come falling down on her back. She put a hand to her back and felt it. It was sticky with blood and warm with infection from the endless beatings she had gotten over the past month.
Yes, it had been a month since Elsa and her sister Anna were shipped off to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp with 20,000 other women and children. And that was just the women! She had been forced to work at a factory in the camp which produced bullets and Nazi military supplies, while Anna had been sent to the sewing ward. At Auschwitz, labor was one of the means used to destroy prisoners!
A sharp crack of a whip followed by pain to the back brought Elsa back to her work.
"Keep working, Jewish brat!" The Nazi officer who had whipped Elsa exclaimed.
Elsa went back to work. She glanced up at the clock. She would stop work soon, then she would be able to see Anna. Elsa worried about her little sister. Anna had recently had a blistering fever and Elsa feared for her health.
As the bell rung signalling the workers to go back to their barracks, Elsa rushed out and pushed her way through the crowd, anxious to meet Anna.
The cold wind whipped Elsa's braid around her neck as she pulled what she had left of a coat around her shoulders.
It hadn't always been like this. Before the war Elsa and Anna lived in a nice house in Holland with their parents. Life was good, until a dreadful accident concerning their mother and father that left the two girls homeless and worse...orphans.
Then the war started in 1939 and the hatred toward the Jews grew great. Elsa clenched her fist and wished with all her heart that Adolf Hitler had never been born of that his parents had dumped him in the lake when he was 6 weeks old!
Elsa thought back to when she took the Jewish holocaust into full realization... a week after her engagement.
