There were heroes in the Holocaust and then there were bystanders. It’s super easy to be a bystander however it’s super hard to be a hero. The people that were heroes were the people that stand up for what they believe in. Also, people who save others lives are heroes. Great Examples of Heroes are Anne Frank and Irena Sendler.
Anne Frank moved from Germany to Amsterdam in the 1930s when the Nazis gained control of Germany. She was safe for almost two years of hiding. Then Anne and her family were discovered and sent to concentration camp. However, she was not a survivor of the Holocaust. She had died in the concentration camp. While she was in the concentration camp, she wrote about her experiences and wishes. She wrote in her diary from June 12th, 1942 until August 4th, 1944. This story has been widely read and has made many people think and understand the Holocaust and how awful it was. She still believes that all people have a good heart. This is why I call Anne Frank a hero of the Holocaust.
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She saved 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Irena was a social worker before she started saving children. Irena and the people who helped her make over 3,000 false documents to help Jewish children get out of the Ghettos. They had a method to smuggle the children. They pretended they were doctors and use an ambulance to smuggle the children out of the Ghettos. The children hid under the stretcher and escape through the courthouse or an underground passage. But the kids would have to pretend that they were sick or actually be very sick. She offered orphan children food and shelter. However, she and the children were found and she received a death sentence. Although she died,she was an amazing hero who saved some of the Jewish children's lives. She didn't just stand back and let poor innocent Jewish children be killed, she did something about
During the Holocaust, over 6 million Jews died. Only 3% of all of the Jews that Hitler and his Nazis abducted lived. Ordinary people like Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke helped save at least a dozen Jews in the time period but in very different ways. This proves that everyone can be a Hero.
During World War 2,it"s pretty obvious that they weren't very easy times. Although there were serious consequences,there were still some people out there who risked their lives in order to help Jews. one of those people was Irene Opdyke. Irene Opdyke deserves an ADL Courage award for risking her own life as well as the lives of those who she hid. As we all know,the holocaust wasn't something that people could easily avoid. There were signs all around that said if you were caught helping Jews you would automatically get a death penalty without a doubt. Unlike many others who helped Jews, Irene took a big risk that many people nowadays wouldn't take.
Women during this time were expected to be homemakers and mothers, so the bravery and strength she had the courage to build was undeniably honorable. Knowing she could have been captured and killed for her actions, but still continued to help the jews was incredible. Another action that showed her bravery was when Irena was 25 years old and heard the Gestapo was about to sweep through a local Jewish ghetto in Poland, this gave her time to hide her 12 Jewish laundry co-workers is a cellar under a gazebo. Knowing she was putting her life in danger to hide the jews took
In the 1930 Germany at traced Poland Nazi storied killed Jews some people correct choicer of the holocaust. sister Agnes Walsh made correct choicer in the holocaust she the Jews to be save and the Jews said thank you for helping us. She did something good at save Jews and a family and the kids so did her best to help the people at need help. So she was the best hero the holocaust and she did a best correct choicer to the kids and the people.
Have you heard of Miep Gies? Do you know what she did during the Holocaust? Miep Gies is considered a hero. She had a hard time as a young child. Even when her life was not going right she still saw the need to help people.
Stefania Podgorska was born in 1923. She grew up in a small village in Poland, was born into a catholic family, and was the third youngest of nine. At the age of fourteen, she then moved to Przemysl for work and met a Jewish man named Joe who later became her husband. When the war first started Joe and his brothers were sent to the ghetto but because Stefania wasn't a Jew she was able to stay in town and keep her apartment. Later Podgorska heard that the SS was going to empty the ghetto soon. She knew she had to do something in order to save any Jews she possibly can. Although it wasn't easy, she moved to a bigger apartment and hid thirteen Jews in her attic for about two winters.
Have you ever wondered what it took to be a hero? Elie Wiesel is an example of how you can be one. Wiesel wrote many books to spread the misfortune of the Holocaust. He also taught humanities at Boston University. Before he died he had the honor of being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, in his efforts to void the world of hate and violence. He impacted the world by keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive but omitting the idea of it. In the end, he helped many see the importance of uniting to overcome something so evil.
One of the more well-known victims of the holocaust is Anne Frank.She was a thirteen teenage girl,she lived in Amsterdam and in Germany.Anne Frank's story is fascinating and incredible because she was a young girl writing about how it was being like a Jew and how she lived during the Holocaust.
Over 6 million Jews died once Hitler came to power, an event that came to be known as the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had grown up learning that Jews were bad. This is where we think he got the idea to blame them for Germany’s loss in World War 2. Anne Frank and 7 other Jewish people went into hiding shortly after Margot, Anne’s sister, got a letter asking her to report to a Jewish work camp. They were hiding for 25 months, until they were discovered on the 4th of August in 1944, everybody was arrested. Anne Frank is believed to have died from Typhus fever on March 12th, 1945, just 34 days before the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated. The only survivor of the annex was Mr. Otto Frank. He returned to Amsterdam, June 3rd, 1945. Historical events that happened during the Holocaust can be proven to have affected the annex member’s mood and relationships in the drama, “Anne Frank.”
Survival is living on the hope that better things are yet to come in your life. Right now in our country people survive because of hope and the belief that people are good and they will help them out. People survive when they are homeless on the streets only because of the people who are good at heart and give them food or money to buy clothing for the winter. Gerta survived because of her family and friends. Anne Frank survived because she believed that “Despite all the evil going on in the world I still believe that all people are good at heart.”
Could you imagine having to go into hiding and fighting for your life only at the age of 13? Well, Anne Frank had no choice but to do just that. Anne Frank was very important because even it a time like that she was very honest in her diary and shows everyone what it could be like for a Jew back then. Even during all the tragedy that happened in her life, she said, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." The quote that was found in her diary dated July 1944, which were several months before she perished in a concentration camp. To me, this shows that Anne Frank was a brave, powerful, along with a courageous young woman. Even kids now of days could never do the things she did because our biggest concern
Anne Frank, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust gained fame after the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl. She documents her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. She once said, “If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.” Life in the concentration camps was worse for Jewish women than it was for men. They faced even more difficulty and were being treated more cruelly. During the Holocaust, the government frequently subjected women, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to brutal persecution that was sometimes unique to the gender of the victims. Women had to go to drastic measures to survive while incarcerated. Nazi’s ideology was called the “Final Solution”, this was the complete annihilation of all Jews. All of this made the Holocaust brutal for women.
One of the most well known and discussed Holocaust victims was Anne Frank. Born a German national on June 12th 1929 to Jewish parents she grew up as the child to the Frank family in Frankfurt that was later to become one of the hearts of the concentration camps. After she lost her citizenship in 1941, her family moved from Germany to Amsterdam to escape the horror tales they heard followed the new sweeping Nazi regime. By the May of 1942 the family went into hiding. The radical ideas brought up by the new German company supported racist and antisemitism beliefs started in Dachau in 1933 with the concentration camps.
Anne frank was a hero in many ways she was only thirteen locked up with people and she had one relationship but she had to hide for two years with nothing to do but then she got her diary.She had
Anne Frank Anne Frank was a Jewish girl that lived during World War II. She told her tales about living during the Holocaust through her diary and now she is recognized as a symbol of goodness all around the world. I think the world sees her as that because of how she remained happy, hopeful, and that she was a person that you could relate to. When Anne Frank went into hiding, she remained a positive and happy girl even with what was going outside of the Secret Annexe. She lived a happy and normal life under the Annexe with her family.