Analysis Of Irena 's ' Irena Sendler '

The Germans were deporting 5 to 10 thousand Jews a day at the Umschlagplatz. Were the Jews would be tightly packed in cattle cars and shipped off to death camps like treblinka were they would be sent to labor or the gas chambers were you executed. Death camps would try to hide what’s really going on. The death camps would say turn in all your valuables so you can be delouced but what they really are doing is sending you to your death.People that are war profiteers would sell some of the valuables that were collected at the death camps. So Irena was terrified when they started deportation she was afraid that all the kids that she put in the orphanage in the ghetto. Several days after wards there was tremence fire fights that broke out all over the ghetto. So Irena sprung into action thinking that the Germans would be distracted from all the fighting so that Irena can smuggle more Jewish kids into the Aryan side. Irena looked at danger straight in the face and smuggled kids through the sewer. Once the Nazi got wind of people smuggling Jews through the sewer they started putting posing the sewers so in anybody went down there they would die. That day Irena smuggled almost 200 kids throughout these

I'm going to tell you a little story about Lisl Winternitz and about her life.”some non-Jews hid Jewish children and sometimes, as in the case of Anna Frank,hid other family members as well”(myjewishlearning.com). Lisl Winternitz was born in may 7, 1926. She lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Lisl was the youngest of two children born to a Jewish family in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague. Lisl’s family lived on Karlova Street in the karlin district of the city. Liesl's father owned a wholesale business that sold floor coverings. When Liesl's was 12 she went to school and her teacher shouted at her, “You dirty, filthy Jew!” and then spat at her face. They weren’t allowed in any public place and their ration cards were stamped with a red

What happened to the Jews during the Holocaust was unthinkable; millions of people were persecuted. Jews were asked to vacate their homes and were shifted to specific areas in cities known as ghettos. In these ghettos, several families had to live under one roof in cramped and unhealthy manner. About 6 million Jews were sent to concentration camps. Jews were transported in freight trains to these camps under inhumane conditions, and many perished on the way. They were hardly given any food. They were also made to work long hours, some times 12 to 14 hours without a break. The Nazis did not spare women or children. According to estimates, the Nazis killed 1.2 millions Jewish children and thousands of gypsy and disabled

Then the german soldiers came to their town and were forced to leave in the “ghetto”. The ghetto is in Krakow and it forces the Jews to live in certain areas and have a curfew. Yanek lived in a apartment with his family, uncles and cousins. They didn’t like how crowded it was so they moved to a Pigeon coop on the roof of their apartment. When Yanek was walking home he saw his parents on a truck getting sent to a concentration camp. Two few weeks later Yanek was captured and was sent to the concentration camp called Plaszow, he was there from 1942-1943. While at Plaszow he built barracks. After building Barracks he was sent to the Krakow ghetto to clean out the apartments and search for anything valuable in them. While at roll call one day Yanek and 49 other jews were selected to go work at the Wieliczka salt mine. Not much happened here except he mined salt. He was there from 1943- 1944. After he worked in the mine for awhile he was sent to Trzebinia. All day he was supposed to move rocks. After a while of working in the Quarry he was sent off to Birkenau. When he arrived at Birkenau he saw these chimneys that had smoke coming out of them which had smelled terrible. “Black Chimneys stood up in silhouette against the glowing sky, shooting flames from their tops, and the smell of burning flesh filled the air.” (pg 124). Yanek thought he was going to be gassed here but it was actually just a

Wladyslaw Szpilman was a pianist for a radio station during the beginning of the Second World War in the Fall of 1939. Living in Warsaw at the time, it only took a few weeks until the German forces took full control over the city. Szpilman and his family decide to stay in Warsaw after hearing that the Allied forces (Great Britain) were joining the war against Germany. From that point on the conditions for Jews exponentially deteriorate, suffering caused by both the German forces and the Polish people. Under the Nazi regime, the Jewish people are exposed to many injustices. Polish businesses that once welcomed all, now strictly disallowed the Jewish people. As well as instances of German forces bullying the jewish community, Szpilman’s father was struck in the face by and German officer and told that he was forbidden to walk on the sidewalk. The Nazi control over Warsaw was the start to the horrors of the holocaust, caused by both the assault of the German forces and the acts of the Polish people under the Nazi

“The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. Departures were to take place street by street, starting the next day” (Wiesel 13). Days later after they felt safe again, they would be taken to the camps, to be worked to death. They were dehumanized from that

On March 19th, 1944, the Nazi’s invaded Hungary. Soon afterwards, Jewish families, like the Davidovitz’s, where forced to wear yellow armbands with the Star of David on them. Shortly after that, the Jews went to go live in the ghettos, overcrowded living areas with appalling living conditions. After about two weeks, those living in the ghettos were told they were taking a trip into Germany for work and to pack their things. Ibi, aged nineteen, was

During the Holocaust, Jewish communities were confined in killing centers called concentration camps such as Buna, Auschwitz, Gleiwitz, and multiple others. At these camps, Jews were forced to work to their death under a program called "Annihilation through Work". Accordingly, they were kept in extremely harsh conditions without any rights. Concentration camps became a major way in which the Nazis imposed their control. The Jews were transported time after time to different camps.As a part of these Jewish communities were Elie and his father. Elie, along with his father, were transported to a new camp called Buna. In these hard times, Elie and his father relied on the gratitude of other inmates to find out information on the new camps they

The article, “Teens Who Fought Hitler,” by Lauren Tarshis describes many hardships Ben,a teenage Jew who with his family, faced, just like thousands of other Jews who were forced to move into the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis. The Jews were terribly treated everywhere in the ghetto. Each person was allotted only one tenth of food a day that they should be eating. Many diseases including typhus spread. Before the Warsaw Ghetto, no Jew could be at libraries or public parks and were not allowed out of their house after five o'clock.

I had initially expected students to have had more experience studying this time period and to have a basic idea of what life was like in the ghettos and concentration camps, but through class discussions it became clear that most had not had opportunities to learn about these in great depth. This particular lesson’s intent was to “fill in” some of the details Wiesel alludes to early in his memoir, including his experiences in ghettos and selection in

On December 31, 1908, Wiesenthal was born in Buczaca, now a part of the Ukraine ("About Simon Wiesenthal"). Young Wiesenthal, from 1928 to 1932, attended Technical University of Prague for architecture after being turned down from Polytechnic Institute in Lvov because of quotas on Jewish students ("About Simon Wiesenthal"). Not long after Germany and Russia partitioned Poland, Nazis started the "Red purge of Jewish merchants, factory owners, and other professionals"("About Simon Wiesenthal"). Wiesenthal was turned into the authorities one day, and forced to moved out of the city not because he was a Jew but rather because he was a capitalist (Segev 42).Wiesenthal bribed the police to let him stay

The rise of Anti- Semitism was affecting the Jews all over Europe. Jewish towns and neighbourhoods were confined to ghettos starting in 1939. After living in ghettos for approximately 2 years and under unbearable conditions, German soldiers rounded up Jews and began to place them on trains. The experiences of Elie Wiesel and Irene Fogel Weiss are just two of the millions of stories that exist. Their experiences in the concentration camps have many similarities as well as many differences and not only has the Holocaust left physical scars but psychological scars too, which Viktor Frankel has written a book about, being a psychologist and a Holocaust survivor.

“Irena Sendler was a Polish woman who, along with her underground network, rescued 2,500 Jewish children in Poland during World War II.” The Life In a Jar: Irena Sendler Project portrays that she made such a difference in so

Life In A Jar: The Irena Sendler Project was a true story about three teenagers from Kansas who study the then hidden story of Irena Sendler and her efforts in helping 2,500 children escape the largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi occupied Europe. The ghetto was located in Warsaw, Poland. The story of Irena comes into light in Uniontown Kansas, year 2000. Liz Cambers takes a history class in which the students must create a project for Nation History Day. This is when Sendler’s story is uncovered. Struck by the courage and accomplishment of Irena, Liz and two other students, Megan and Sabrina write a play showcasing Sendler and what she did for the people in the ghetto. The Warsaw ghetto held over 400,000 jews in a 1.3 sq. mile area. At least 245,000 of these residents were deported east to Treblinka extermination camp in the course of two months in 1942. However between Grossaktion Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and razing,

"People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter." Irena Sendler and many others are trying to convey the idea that nationality and differences like that do not matter, for they are useless for finding someone's true character. I would feel outraged and dreadful, for being arrested illegitimately. If there was a person that was of my religion and nationality that did unacceptable things, it does not mean everyone like them is a monster like them. If millions of people have to go to jail for that one person's wrongdoing, everyone would also feel exactly like I feel. In the book, everyone that is Japanese, like Tomi's family must pay for the doings of people on the other side of the world; however,