Think about what life would be like if you had to wake up every morning wondering if you were going to live to see tomorrow, under Hitler's control people of all ages feared of bring murdered. When you look at people today many laugh, smile and play. But under the persecution and terror of Hitler, many of these people couldn't do these simple everyday things. When the nazi regime came to power in Germany in January 1933, it immediately began to take systematic measures against the Jews. One early decree was a definition of the term Jew. Crucial in that determination was the religion of one's grandparents (About 1). Anyone with three of for Jewish grandparents was automatically a Jew, regardless of whether that individual was a member of the Jewish community. Half-Jews were considered Jewish if they themselves belonged to the Jewish religion or were married to a Jewish person. All other half-Jews, and persons who had one Jewish grandparent, were styled Mischlinge (half!
             -breeds). Jews and Mischlinge were "non-Aryans." In Nazi doctrine, such emphasis on descent was regarded as an affirmation of "race," but the principal purpose of these categorizations was the clear delimitation of a target for discriminatory laws and directives (Encarta 99, About 1). When all hell broke loose some of the Jews went into hiding. The Nazis went house-to-house looking for Jews and if there were found they were either killed or arrested. Some of them paid non-Jewish people to stay with them and hide there. Others were so desperate that they actually went into the sewers with hundreds of diseases, rats and smell. Others hide under beds and in pianos. They had to be completely quite, in order to do this they, played games, played with dolls, toys, the adults told stories to the kids and others used their imagination and creativity to escaped the chaos and trauma of the world. One mother actually smother...