Of What Remains By Alicia Jurman Summary

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

In the book of Elly My True Story of the Holocaust Elly is a Jewish girl who her family is living in a little town in Romania. As Romania invades their small town and get thrown into a ghetto where there are crowded into little homes. This was the day that Elly and her family was sent to the concentration camp called Auschwitz II were her mother and brother were sent to the left and she was sent to the right were she lived she never saw her family. Elly was working for years in the camp when it was liberated in January 27, 1945 elly was sent free and wrote this book

Hanci Hollander was 14 years old when she got to her concentration camp with her mother and sister. It was a very long hard

The early 1940s, an observant, young boy, and his caring father: the start of a story that would become known throughout the world of Eliezer Wiesel. His eye-opening story is one of millions born of the Holocaust. Elie’s identity, for which he is known by, is written out word for word his memoir, Night. Throughout his journey, Elie’s voice drifts from that of an innocent teen intrigued with the teachings of his religion to that of a soul blackened by a theoretical evil consuming the Nazis and Hitler’s Germany. Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, examines the theme of identity through the continuous motifs of losing one’s self in the face of death and fear, labeling innocent people for a single dimension of what defines a human being, and the oppression seen in the Holocaust based on the identities of those specifically targeted and persecuted.

As a mother your biggest mission in life is to be a protector and everything that your children will ever need and that’s exactly what Sonia was. June 30, 1941 Nazis gained control of the town Zhetel, a small town in Poland that Sonia and her family resided in. The Nazis immediately began to persecute the Jewish population. On July 23, 1941, the Nazis executed 120 prominent Jews. Among those innocent lives was Sonias brother. On February 22, 1942, the Germans ordered that all the Jews in Zhetel be forced into a ghetto called among these names: The Zdzięcioł Ghetto, Dzyatlava Ghetto or Zhetel Ghetto. Two months later they rounded up and killed about 1000 Jewish residents. After this first slaughter, on April 30, a few dozen people escaped from the ghetto into the nearby woods and began to organize into partisan groups. On August 6, 1942, the Germans began the final liquidation of Zhetel. Sam, Sonias husband, was rounded up in a mass sweep of the town and locked together with hundreds of other Jews in the town's synagogue. In the middle of all the confusion, he and a few others hid for about two days and nights. Once it was quiet, they escaped into the woods and joined up with the Jewish Partisans. Meanwhile Sonia hid with her two children in a hiding place her husband established soon after World War 2. They would stay there for three nights with other friends and family until the Nazi massacres

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

Alicia had four brothers and two parents. Her brother Moshe was the first to die during the Holocaust. Moshe had been determined that he could help his family by going and getting an education that was being offered to students. While Moshe was at this “school,” Alicia and her family were receiving strange and cold letters from him. Moshe returned home a year later after he was forced to write what was written in those letters. A few weeks after Moshe returned home, the Russians began looking for him. After he Moshe was caught by the Russians, he was imprisoned and died due to hard labor.

Life is a precious thing, and it is so precious that some people will undergo severe anguish to hold on to it. During the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany, people of the Jewish religion were diabolically oppressed and slaughtered, just for their beliefs. Some Jews went to extreme measures to evade capture by the German law enforcement, hoping to hold on to life. Krystyna Chiger was only a small child when her family, along with a group of other desperate Jews, descended into the malignant sewers to avoid the Germans. After living in the abysmal sewers for fourteen months, her group emerged, and when she became an adult, she authored a novel about her time in the sewer. When analyzing the literary elements utilized in her novel, The Girl in the Green Sweater, one can determine how tone and mood, point of view, and conflict convey the message of struggle and survival that was experienced during the Holocaust, and how they help the reader to understand and relate.

The Germans came to their household and took her father away because they needed someone to help them on how to run a factory. The mother decided to leave to Kozlowa Gora and take the three younger daughters with her. That left Irena and Janine with Aunt Helen.

Ms. Ruta Sepetys is the author of “Between the Shades of Gray”. The book tells a story of a young girl and how she survives the struggles and hardships of the Holocaust. Sepetys develops the themes that hope can always be found within despair, and that love is stronger than hate. She portrays this by showing us how Lina and her family survive and live through the holocaust. One of the themes from the novel is, love is stronger than hate.

“I remembered every house, every tree, every flower; all the wonderful times, the memories of my family, which were happiness; but I also remembered every anguish, every death, every tragedy,” said Alicia Appleman-Jurman during a lecture for the Holocaust survivors oral history project. Within a four year period, about six million Jewish people died (out of nine million Jewish people before the beginning of WWII) during the rule of the Nazi Party, with very few of them surviving. Alicia Appleman-Jurman is a very important survivor of the Holocaust. She was determined to help the Jewish people, even after having her entire family annihilated. She persevered to the end of the war and at just thirteen she smuggled most of the surviving Jews, through

World War II began a year after Leon and his family moved to Krakow. On September 1, 1939, the German army launched the first Blitzkrieg across the Polish border. The Luftwaffe sent bombers and fighters to attack airfields,

This story took place in 1945 in Poland. Soon after the Nazis took over Alicia’s country, she was forced to move to ghetto in Buczacz, Poland. She was also imprisoned in Chortok, Poland.

Alicia’s story begins with Alicia speaking about life before the events of World War II and about how she herself had not yet experienced anti-Semitism; however, soon afterwards her brother was attacked by a group of polish boys on his way to the conservatory of music. Soon afterwards the Russian occupation of east Poland began, starting on September 17th 1939. Strange yet friendly soldiers occupied the streets of Buczacz, buying all they could afford, completely emptying stores. Several Russian teachers came to teach; all of whom greatly emphasized learning. Alicia’s second brother, Moshe, had always been a good student, and was allowed to study in Leningrad, Russia. He escaped several months later, and within three weeks, the Russian police

Rachel Roth had told us about her part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Jews infamous fight against the Nazis. This was not the same story we heard from Andrzej Wiczynski, who was a veteran in the Polish Warsaw Uprising. His story was full of “killing Nazis” and taking back Warsaw. There was no mention of Jews, or the Warsaw Ghetto until prompted by one of the students from the class and the professor. His silence speaks volumes and seems to be a theme throughout