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A Holocaust Survivors Struggle

            What would you do if your father had just been killed. Your mother had moved to an insane asylum and you are being sent to live with your strict grandmother. What will become of you? That was a question my grandfather had to ask him self, when he was nine years old. My grandfather is now 77. He was born on February fourth 1926. His name is Stephen Harding Wolf. Throughout his life he faced many hard ships. I am inspired by what he was able to overcome and how he dealt with crazy situations.
             When my grandfather was eight years old his parents got divorced. One year later his father had gotten remarried. My grandfathers father, John Wolf was a pilot. On his honey moon his plan was to have one his pilot friend to fly him and his new wife to their honey moon in Reno, Nevada. The plane crashed into a mountain from a weather related cause. After his fathers death his mother went kind of crazy. She started leaving him and his two siblings alone until very late and sometimes she left them for long periods of time. By the time he was eleven my grandfather's mother had been put into an insane asylum by his grandmother who he would have to live with. .
             My grandfather told me all about his years with his grandmother. She was very strict and insisted on good grades and perfect manners. He told me how he would put spinach in his pockets and then hose it out after his grandmother had gone to sleep. The only really good thing about him living with his grandmother was that she was very rich. Her property was on the grounds of something government related so she got paid to keep the area clean. He didn't have any jobs when he was a teenager but he liked to help the gardeners with the yard work and sometimes he helped load trucks with workmen. .
             My grandfather told me that technology has changed a lot since he was fifteen. In his house he had a coal stove an electric refrigerator a radio and a toaster. Prices have changed a lot as well.


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