Simon Gronowski: The Holocaust Survivor Of The Holocaust

According to the texts and eyewitness accounts, the Holocaust had horrendous effects on the people who lived through it. During this time Jews were being rounded up and put into concentration camps by order of the German government. Writings and testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust are around even to this day. According to these sources, Holocaust survivors suffered tremendously since they were treated as less than human , they lost loved ones, and were constantly abused.

Only about 3,546,211 people survived the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was the main leader of the Holocaust, he did this because of his discrimination of Jews. There were more than just Jews killed, there were gay people, priests, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anarchists, Poles and other Slavic peoples, and resistance fighters. The Holocaust happened between 1933 through 1945 in Germany and Poland. Night, is an autobiography written by Elie Wisel who was involved in the Holocaust. Auschwitz Death Camp, it is a video documentary of the death camp including Elie Wisel and Oprah Winfrey. The truth about the Holocaust to me is horrendous, all the torturing they had to go through

In the mid 1930s heading into the the mid 1940s, The Nazis created harsh living conditions for Jews living in Europe. The Nazis, lead by Adolf Hitler, were an right wing group that took control of Germany and eventually expanded to the other European countries around them including Poland and Austria. Using the Nuremberg laws in 1935, the Nazis began removing Jewish people from everyday society. Four years later in 1939, Jews were forced to live in Ghettos that were overcrowded and barely maintained. Not long after in 1945, The “final solution” was implemented. Innocent Jewish men, women and children were shipped in train cars to Concentration camps. The conditions in these train cars were brutal. Passengers would go days without water, food

In history there is no true justice, just death, in the case of the Holocaust, much death. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel describes his life of a fourteen year old religious Jewish boy, who was sent to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, where he lost both his faith and his family. In 1933, Adolf Hitler began putting Jews and other “despicable” ethnic groups into concentration camps and blaming them for the problems Germany was facing after World War I, then in 1941, Hitler put in place the “Final Solution”, a Nazi plan centered around killing all Jews. Through the atrocities detailed in Night, Elie Wiesel proves the dehumanizing effects of the Holocaust for the victims.

From the insults we deliver to the acts we commit, dehumanization, the act of depriving people of human qualities, is not a new concept. History has shown the tragic acts of dehumanization and the inflictions it can have upon a race. The most significant example of dehumanization in modern history occurred during World War II through the Nazi regime. With the rise in Nazi eugenics popularity, the ideology involved with “life unworthy of life” led to the formation of the Holocaust. In concentration camps, Jewish life was reduced to almost nothing with malnourishment, degradation, and amorality encompassing their known existence.

Hitler tried to use dehumanization to wipe Jews off the face of the planet. Millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis in brutal and savage ways, but some were lucky enough to make it through the selection. Although the Jews survived the selection, they were forced to live like animals. The Jews were given scarce amounts of foods and necessities, which made the Jew’s struggles even harder. The Jews had been treated as if they were animals for so long, that they started to act inconsiderately of others in some situations. Dehumanization was portrayed in multiple ways, throughout the story.

In the beginning, German officers and soldiers rounded up Jews and other ethnic groups and sent them to labor camps, ghettos, or “death” camps. Some families were separated, never to see each other again. People were starved and killed, which violates the Health part of this ideal. The Jews were also held in these places against their will, which is an opposition to a man's right to freedom.

Prior to Nazi rule, life in Germany had been subject to many hardships. The German People had been victim of

Arek Hersh is an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who experienced the greatest tragedies inflicted upon mankind. He was transferred from one concentration camp to another, witnessing some of history's worst crimes against humanity. His childhood memories were filled with mass murder, forced labour and cannibalism. Up until today, he still refers to these memories as "a constant reminder of what human beings can do". Arek's dreadful experiences during the Holocaust was concealed from the world until 1995 when he wrote his notable novel 'A Detail Of History'.

Oskar Schindler is considered an amazing hero of the Holocaust and is noteworthy because he rescued a lot of Jews, changed his Nazi beliefs, and was recognized by the state of Israel as one of the “Righteous Among the Nation.” He was a German industrialist who had such a huge impact on modern society, he protected the jews from the wrath of the Nazi Party and preserved generation of Jewish families.

I’ve seen many people die over the spain of my time here. Boxed into trains like roddents with no rights, no voice. It was another reguglar day here in the ghetto daily deportations, daily check ups at the factories. I Dan a worker here at the factory fear the day when I am no longer able to work for these, these devils. The word around here is that when theyre done with your you’re shipped out to a camp to die. Many say theyre ready to fight back against the Nazi’s i will never speak of them as soldiers because soldiers fight for their country not prison the ones that live here.

One of the holocaust survivors was Kazimierz Piechowski, he was one of the 144 Jewish

Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust between the year 1939 and the year 1945. There were many resistance efforts in this time. Many revolts erupted when the talk of killing centers came around. Clandestine parachutists were dropped over Hungary and Slovakia to aid all Jews in hiding. One person involved in these resistance efforts was Eugene Lazowski. Eugene was a doctor who was a hero in the Holocaust. He became a hero by saving lives by sneaking over a fence of a ghetto to treat the ill or wounded and creating a fake epidemic.

How did the way of life of the oppressed population change during the time of Nazi’s power?

In the years of nineteen thirty-three until nineteen thirty-nine Germany was poorly and harshly ruled by Adolf Hitler. People were awfully locked into concentration camps, somewhere where food and water wasn’t allowed; Hitler would make Jews suffer. The fact that Hitler was ruling and would let humans die of hunger and thirst demonstrates the amount of power he obtained and the type of person he was, this is known as “The Holocaust”.