Chance Chance is when the world gives a person another opportunity to change things. “A second chance doesn’t always mean a happy ending. Sometimes, it’s a chance to end things right.” -Anonymous. In these three extraordinary stories, it was chance that gave these individuals another shot to change their original outcomes. George Elbaum has encountered many obstacles in his life that may have threatened his chance to live. Luckily, he received many unusual opportunities to survive, and wrote a book about his experiences. In addition, Herman Rosenblat, a Polish-born American writer, wrote a fictional story about his love life with his wife, Roma. Because of chance, he was able to see Roma later in his life and eventually marry her. In another story, Zaremski, the main …show more content…
Elbaum, a survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, wrote Neither Yesterdays Nor Tomorrows, which talks about his childhood life living in the Warsaw Ghetto. In his book he says, “I was one year old in Warsaw in September 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland and World War II started... within 3 years my grandparents, uncles and aunts, about a dozen family members in all, had been killed by the Nazis. Only my mother and I were still alive” (https://neitheryesterdays.com). To save him, his mother hid him in a shed with a gaping hole in the ceiling. He was lucky to be able to live in the Shed because Elbaum and others had a chance to hide from the Nazi guards and survive. Later in Elbaum’s life, he was nearly killed when guards entered the house where he was “hiding”. As Elbaum was drinking soup, a German soldier stared down at him with a gun hanging by his side. As a young child, Elbaum was fascinated by the machine the soldier held, and looked up and smiled at the soldier. “I recall staring at it, fascinated by the many holes, then looking at the soldier and smiling... The soldier stood there for a moment more, then moved on…” He would not have been alive to tell his story if it had not been for