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Georgia Gabor Research Paper

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To have strength, you must have faith and some type of motivation. Or in Georgia’s situation, she had the will to live. Born in Budapest, only fourteen, and born into a prominent family was Georgia Gabor when the catastrophe Holocaust began. With strength and determination, she successfully escaped the Nazis three times and away from the horror. One morning after successfully rescuing her mother, Georgia was caught wandering on the streets without the Star of David and was brought to a high ranking German soldier. Then, she was brought down to the cellar where multiple Jews and gentiles were humming while being hit with a leather strap by both Hungarian and German Nazis. Georgia was forced to watch that painful scene of other Jews and gentiles being whipped with a gun pressed against her rib. Unfortunately, a young girl begging to be allowed to sit was shot and killed right in front of her eyes. Right after, an old rabbi’s head was split with a chair by a German soldier. Through a crack, Georgia saw three mutilated bodies hanging upside down with their ankles nailed into …show more content…

Georgia had to quickly form a plan to be able to survive. She crawled with the Jews in the hole which was a tunnel created by Jews multiple years ago. As the German soldier realized Georgia escaped from him, the Nazis closed off both exits. In a packed, pitch black tunnel and with other one hundred bloody Jews, unharmed Georgia was stuck with people who sadly died. The worst part was when the rats came in, lured by the stench of blood and biting people. Luckily, Georgia wasn’t drenched in blood and didn’t smell delicious to the rats so she was not bitten. After a day and a half, they were finally released from the tunnel. Continuously after, Georgia Gabor was captured and escaped from the Nazis until she finally escaped in 1956 with five other

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