Eva Mozes Kor

Anne and her family has very hard lives during the Holocaust. They treat you so poorly in the concentration camps. The fact that they hid for a very long time instead of registering, made them prisoners so they were treated even worse.

In the book Escape Children of the Holocaust, author Allan Zullo highlights the struggles of three innocent Jewish children, Hanci Hollander, Halina Litman and Gideon Frieder. All three children were born in different countries affected by the Holocaust; Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. If you did not know, the Holocaust was a gruesome time in the world’s history. There were concentration camps for Jews. All because of one Austrian man, Adolf Hitler, who hated the Jews so much he did not want one Jew left standing. Consequently, he made the Nazi Germans hunt, enslave and kill the Jews.

Eva was born on January 1,1923. She was given a special blessing by a famous Rabbi, The Belzer Rebbe. This was a very huge event in their town. Eva was the oldest of eight children. The town she was born and raised in Oleszyce, Poland. The Jews and non-Jews only interacted for business and they never really talked socially.

The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One was considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself. Elie Wiesel was considered to be one of those men, for he had his father working side by side with him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his father were condemned to a concentration camp located in Poland. In the concentration camps, having family members along can be a great blessing, but also a burden.

Since the Nazi soldiers were male, they treated men and women prisoners in their camps with a significant amount of difference. Prisoners were forced to do pointless yet challenging labour for an indefinite time before they were sentenced to death. Upon arrival at the camps, Jews were divided into two different groups; one would group would live and the other would be sent to the gas chambers immediately. The labour intensive tasks proved to be quite brutal for women since they were not accustomed to such duties. Even pregnant women were not spared and many women miscarried because the hard labour had killed their unborn child. Those babies who were born were almost inevitably taken immediately and killed. There was no privacy in these camps and the women were continually being eyed by the lonely, watching soldiers. Some women were beaten or sexually harassed while in the camps and could do nothing to stop the horror. Their husbands, brothers and fathers were either dead or in a different part of the

At the age of 15, Elie Wiesel and his family were sent to Auschwitz as a part of the Holocaust. He was sent to many labor camps with his father where they were forced to work under inhumane conditions. However, his mother and younger sister were killed upon entering the camps. Wiesel recalled, “I didn’t know that this was the moment in the time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” (Wiesel, 29) After this, Wiesel and his father witnessed many atrocities. One of the first horrible sights Elie shared in his story was where he saw babies being

concentration camps! Marion Blumenthal Lazan was 7 when she first was forced to be put in a

In the first 11 months, four and a half million people were killed or died. By the end of World War II, approximately six million Jews, including a little more than a million children, were murdered by Nazis. To persuade the prisoners to go into the gas chambers, signs such as ‘baths and disinfecting rooms’ and ‘cleanliness brings freedom’ were hung above the entrance. Gas from the chambers took about 20 minutes to kill everyone in the chamber; 6,000 people died everyday due to this sorcery. During the death marches, intolerable work, approximately 100,000 people died. Sixty percent of the Jews lived in Europe in 1933, which means that about forty percent of the Jewish population died during the holocaust in Europe. Only nine percent of Poland's Jews survived; however, 99% of the Jewish Denmark population survived. Unfortunately, only 2,500 Jewish people survived out of 4,500 in Estonia. Although, there were only 800,000 people in Hungary, 204,000 survived, which is a little more than one fourth of the initial Jewish population. Overall there are 195,000 survivors and counting. Five million of the 11 million people that were killed were non-Jewish. Most survivors are located in the United States or Canada, although many families have registered survivors from 59 other countries. However, most countries were largely unaware of the Holocaust and its scope until they were able to see the evidence themselves. Some felt guilty for surviving when six million suffered and died. One particular, Jeannine Burk, thought and said, "Why am I alive? Why is my father dead? Why did 6,000,000 die and I am alive?" Statistics show that Holocaust survivors are three times more likely to commit suicide. It is hard for some parents to tell their children what happened because they went through so

This project is about a brave woman who survived the Holocaust.Eva Galler was born in january 1,1924 and she died on january 5,2006. She was the oldest of eight children.Her father,Israel Vagel,was the head of the jewish community in their town.Eva’s family were well off compared to the other.Eva,unlike most girls at the time,she went to high school,educated herself and got employed at the local office as a secretary.

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Night by Elie Wiesel are two tragic stories about the experience of these Holocaust survivors during the horrors of the second world war. In the 1940’s it was a very difficult time for Jews who were victimized by the German Nazis and sent to concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, where conditions were worse than imaginable. Elie first entered a concentration camp when he was 12, along with his father, mother, and three sisters. Levi, an Italian jew, was 24 when he was sent to the camps for participating in a resistance group, but unlike Wiesel, did not have his family by his side. Levi, despite his bitter character, acquires hope from the humanity and compassion of others while Wiesel, even with his strong relationship with his father, can't maintain his desire to hope for survival or alliances.

In spite Eliezer and his sister were offered a way out to escape by his previous maid, they did not accept the offer as family always stick together instead they took a correct, decisive action and for that reason they survived the first part of the perturbation of the situation they were in. “I’m too old my son, I’m too old to start a new life. I’m too old to start from scratch again in a country so far away.” (Wiesel 6) As a family they stuck together and followed their instinct until their arrival at Auschwitz , Elie and his sister made the right decision even though no one was there to advise them. When they were taken to Auschwitz a person told them not to conceal their real age, so when the SS officer questioned their age the father mentioned that he was 40, while he was actually 50, and Eliezer mentioned that he was 18,but he was actually 15. “Didn’t you know what was in store for you at Auschwitz? Haven’t you hear about it? In 1944?” (Wiesel 30) He also had to take correct, decisive actions because they had to lie about their age so they can stay together during the time they were in the hell city, the worst concentration camp of all time. However they split up the men and women. “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. Never shall I forget that

In the concentration camps of world war 2 there was around 6,000,000 deaths. The memoir night by Ellie Wiesel retells the experience of a 15- year old jewish boy, Elie, who spends many months in WWll concentration camps with his father, shlomo. In the book Night by Ellie Weasel many are dehumanized mentally and physically.

At the beginning of their harsh journey that became known as the Holocaust, Jewish people were deported from their homes to concentration camps located throughout Europe. Run by the Germans, specifically the Nazis, around six million Jews were persecuted and murdered. However, during the first few stages of this event, many of the Jews were oblivious to the horrors that they would soon encounter. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie describes his own experiences from the Holocaust. On his way to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz, he encounters a woman who he presumes has gone mad in light of recent events. Mrs. Schachter's husband and two eldest sons had mistakenly been deported separately from her and her 10-year-old son. Mrs. Schachter

Each of these histories reveal a story of suffering that is endured by both Gentile and Jew, but also a story of humanity and salvation. In Five Chimneys: A woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz, Olga Lengyel tells of her family assisting other Jews fleeing the Nazi military. Later, after her own ordeals in Auschwitz, she was saved by citizens in a small Polish village. An essay written by Vera Laska is included in Women and the Holocaust: Different Voices, which is an anthology of essays about women in the Holocaust. In addition to the many stories of survivors and rescuers, I am using several scholarly articles

Eighteen million Europeans went through the Nazi concentration camps. Eleven million of them died, almost half of them at Auschwitz alone.1 Concentration camps are a revolting and embarrassing part of the world’s history. There is no doubt that concentration camps are a dark and depressing topic. Despite this, it is a subject that needs to be brought out into the open. The world needs to be educated on the tragedies of the concentration camps to prevent the reoccurrence of the Holocaust. Hitler’s camps imprisoned, tortured, and killed millions of Jews for over five years. Life in the Nazi concentration camps was full of terror and death for its individual prisoners as well as the entire Jewish