Eugene Lazowski's Life During The Holocaust

There were several survivors during the Holocaust and one of them was Eugene Black. His life was very hard and intense, but in the end it all turned out to be good for him. Eugene was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He had a happy life with his family of three sister and a brother. Two of his sister's names were Paula and Jolan. Eugene’s mother came from an orthodox Jewish family but his father, who was a master tailor, did not.

In the Holocaust, around 6 million Jews died. Zigmond Adler was one of them, so here is his story. Zigmond Adler was born on July 18, 1936. He was born in Liege, Belgium. Zigmond’s parents are Czechoslovakian. His mother’s name is Rivka, and she is a shirtmaker. Otto Adler, is Zigmond’s father, was a businessman. Zigmond had a rough start to his life, when his mother died just a year after he was born. The Holocaust started in January 1933. There were millions of people who had to go through the Holocaust. 1.1 million Jews died in the Holocaust. ⅓ of Jewish people died in the Holocaust 220,000-500,000 Romanies died. Although, the Holocaust was one of the worst events ever, Zigmond Adler’s story

Tadeusz Borowski’s “This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” is a story told by Tadek, the diminutive of Tadeusz, recounting the Nazi atrocities that took place in Auschwitz. In his rendering of daily life in Auschwitz, Borowski explains his role as a kapo: a non-Jewish inmate who works and schemes to survive amid daily slaughter. In the ‘concentration universe’ social relations are determined by access to basic goods needed for survival, like food and clothing, and by the surplus of these that can buy their possessor a place in society (Kennedy 160). Tadek works his way up the inmate social latter in order to survive in the camp for so long. His tactics include bartering for privileges and goods, lying and stealing. By doing this he is

Before the war started Solomon Radasky was living in a small town in Warsaw called Praga. “I had a very nice life there, I had my own shop. I used to make fur coats”(Radasky). The last week in January in 1941 his Mother and his older sister were killed. “One morning I was caught by the jewish police on the street and they forced me to keep the trains running and to keep the snow off the tracks, one day I was returning from work

In the spring of 1943 an event was held by the CDJ to deport all of the Jews back to Auschwitz. So they found out the time and date that the train was leaving. Tools from the camp’s workshops were smuggled into the train cars so that the doors and floorboards could be forced open to aid escape. On the night of April 19, 1943, as the train began its journey to Auschwitz, three members of a resistance unit (Groupement Général de Sabotage or Group G) sprang into action. Under the command of a young Jewish physician, Georges Livchitz, the group forced the train to stop by signaling it with a red lantern. Livchitz held the engineer at bay with a small caliber revolver, while his comrades, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon, forced open the doors

Vladek clearly possessed many resourceful qualities that aided him in surviving the holocaust. Spiegelman helped portray Vladek’s experience with diagrams of the camps, crematorium plans, an actual photo of Vladek and a manual for repairing shoes. By using these visual aids in the novel, it helped the reader to have a better historical understanding of the context. It also assisted the reader in imagining a setting of where this all took place. For example in chapter two, page 60 we see the diagram of Vladek explaining to the readers how he fixed boots and considered himself a shoemaker. Here we can see the quick thinking that he used to get himself out a situation that could have turned sour for the most part. He used his judgement and resourcefulness

Elie Wiesel’s purpose for telling his story was to let everyone know how life was during the holocaust and he is talking about how he does not want this to happen again. During the Nobel Prize Speech he explains various things that happened during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s purpose for telling his story was to let everyone know how life was during the holocaust and he is talking about how he does not want this to happen again.

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....” –Elie Wiesel expressed shortly after his harsh experience with the Holocaust. As many read through Elie’s book Night, they recognize what Elie fought through while he was staying in the Concentration Camps. People have realized the brutal conditions that the he had gone through and have came to the thought of how it effected his future and what he has done ever since the horrible Holocaust.

I was born on February 1, 1932. Eleven months before Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and fourteen months before the first Nazi concentration camp opened up. On my ninth birthday the German authorities started to round up all Polish Jews and send them to either the Warsaw Ghetto or concentration camps. The full effects of the Holocaust and World War II didn’t start to affect me until I was in the first grade.

Teaching at the Georgetown University, Karski was also a collaborator in Washington, D.C. How could a man who had such “secrets” live in that city and never talk about them? How was it possible not to know him, not to know what he knew? Karski himself understood the importance of the conference and the events it marked, when he declared: “It is my duty to participate. […] I, among many, did play a part in this story, and my usefulness to this conference lies in reporting it for the record.”1

Vladek a survivor for the Holocaust managed to fight for his life just like a wild animal would do. Vladek never gave up his will or strength during the Holocaust like like any animal or human being would do. The very few survivors of the Holocaust including Vladek are the only ones who can share their story with the world and tell others how it all started. The Holocaust was a terrible event that took place for a couple years, that many people didn’t survive. Even under difficult circumstances during the Holocaust Vladek will to live and survive was strengthened.

Oskar Schindler faced many conflicts in his life. The main conflict he faced was overcoming the Nazis and saving over one thousand Jewish People. Schindler, with out a job at the time, joined the Nazi Party and followed on the heels of the SS when the Germans invaded Poland. This is when Schindler took over two previously Jewish owned companies that dealt with the manufacture and sales of enamel kitchenware products and opened up his own enamel shop right outside of Krakow near the Jewish ghetto. There, he employed mostly Jewish workers, which saved them from being deported to labor camps. Though twice the Gestapo arrested him, he got released because of his many connections and with many bribes. Most

In December 1939, as the German-occupied Poland was being torn up by the events of the Holocaust, Schindler took his first steps in becoming a Holocaust hero. “If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car,” he said later of his wartime actions, “wouldn't you help him?”(“Oskar Schindler,” Jewish Virtual Library).

One of the many important and most memorable incidents of World War Two would be the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the Germans who were known as the Nazis, considered the Jews to be “enemy aliens”. As part of this, the Nazis thought that “Aryans” were a master race. Therefore, they decided to destroy the Jewish race, and created genocide. The Jews were put into unbearable torture at many concentration and death camps. In fact, 6 million Jews were killed in this incident; however, there were many victims who survived this anguish. One of the many survivors was Simon Wiesenthal, who survived the Nazi death camps and began his career as a Nazi hunter.

[War] brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad. Even in the midst the devastation of a national genocide, where one race turned against another in hate, good people existed and worked to counteract the hate through love and compassion. Oskar Schindler was one of these people. World War II provided him the means to become a very wealthy and powerful man, yet he did not exploit the Jews like many other businessmen during his time. He used his money and power to save thousands. Much can be learned from what happened during the holocaust and what Schindler did to save thousands of Jews.