The article "The Children who Escaped the Nazis" by The editors of Scope tells the story of Jewish advocates, Kinder transport, and countless lives saved. As this article is taking places the Nazi party in Germany is swiftly taking power from Jews and restricting there rights. One of the people affected by this is Lore. Lore was born in Czechoslovakia and was raised while the Nazi party was starting to gain lots of power. In 1939 when Lore was very young the Nazis invaded her homeland, stripping her and her family of all of there rights. Lore recalls that at the age of 12 she could no longer swim in a public swimming pool. All of her rights were taken just because of her Jewish heritage. After Kristallnatcht (Night of Broken glass) Lore and
Over the past couple of week I have been reading the book Prisoner B-3087 which is a book about a Jewish boy named Yanek Gruener during WWII. Yanek was very young at the start of the war, around 10, and he lived in Poland his whole life in a flat apartment. He was growing up with Germans approaching him. His father always said that they would never reach them, but one day they did. The Nazis came marching in, took over the city and built a wall with gates so no one could leave. The let out all the non Jews and kept pushing more jewish families into the “Ghetto”. When the Ghetto started to fill up the Nazis would soon start killing people and taking them to the concentration camps. Yanek’s family soon started to be taken in trucks off to
Many people suffered during WWII, not just the targeted people. Many people were also killed for nothing and they couldn’t do anything to stop the catastrophe for they could be punished greatly. A few people like Anne Frank, Liesel, and the boys Rudi, Karl. and Helmuth were part of this war and have differences and similarities with their experiences during the time of the war.
Throughout the deathly hardships during the Holocaust, all of the Jews rights were stripped from between their fingers. The rights were not just stripped from the Jews, but all people who were in the concentration camps. All of the rights were taken from them, by the Nazi’s, in the beginning of the memoir. The victims had to stay in ghettos before being departed to the camps. While they were there, they had many rules.
In the article, “The Boys Who Fought the Nazis” by Kristen Lewis, three teenage boys named Karl, Helmuth, and Rudi risked everything to fight the Nazis with the power of writing because they knew that Hitler was cruel and wrong. In July of 1941, Helmuth found an illegal short-wave radio that picked up foreign channels that would speak about Hitler and his terrible actions. Listening to the stations were “forbidden, and the penalties were severe” for anyone who did so in Germany (8). Karl, Helmuth, and Rudi would get together to listen to the Britain station that told what no one else in the country had the courage to say. Hitler was lying and putting his soldiers into battles that couldn’t be won. Although the boys now knew the truth about
Simon Wiesenthal, arguably the world 's most well-known Nazi-hunter, stood as a symbol to the Nazis scattered around the world. Simon Wiesenthal 's search for escaped Nazi war criminals consumed his life post-war as he was one of the sole seekers of justice for the victims of the Holocaust. In the years of Wiesenthal 's life, he faced many hardships, not only in the Nazi 's labor camps and death camps, but after the war as he pressured the world to convict those responsible for the Holocaust. Simon Wiesenthal relentlessly sought out escaped Nazis because he felt that there wasn 't enough being done to bring justice to the Nazi war criminals, and in general, the world should have done more to capture the escaped Nazis instead of letting those responsible for the Holocaust get away.
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.
“For nearly 50 years I don’t and can’t speak about what has happened to me… I was silent when I was hidden and I stay silent even when I am not” (Rein Kaufman). Because the memories of her childhood were so painful, Lola did not tell anyone what had happened; not her uncle, who raised her after the holocaust, not her husband, and not her children. Lola decided to share her story in May of 1991 when she met Jane Marks, a reporter who was writing a book on hidden children. After Lola is handed the microphone at a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum reception and told, “Go ahead and talk”, she tells her story once again - but this time in public. “My silence, it seems, has been fully broken” (Rein Kaufman). Since that moment, Lola has spoken many times at synagogues and schools. Lola has shown courage and trust by sharing her story, but that wasn’t all she
The Daily Lives of Jewish Children and Youth in the “Third Reich”, the title of the fourth chapter focuses mainly on the daily lives of the children. In April 1933, the “Law Against the Overcrowding of German Schools” was created, in essence establishing a quota of 1.5 percent total enrollment for Jews. Where Jews made up more than 5 percent of the population, schools could allow up to 5 percent of their pupils to be Jewish. Exemptions included Jewish pupils whose fathers had served during World War I, children of mixed marriages (with no more than two Jewish grandparents), and Jewish children with foreign citizenship (94-95). However, for the Elementary school, the Volksschule, attendance stayed the same. Like the other laws, the actual number of exemptions shocked the Nazis. School teachers and administrators barred Jewish children from schools events, inside and outside of school. When movies were shown, Jewish children weren’t allowed to attend them but afterward they had to listen to the other children discussing the film (95). I could not
There are lots of books about the Holocaust, and what it was like to be in a concentration camp as a Jew, or what it was like being an SS officer during that time, but barely any focus on what is was like to grow up in the Holocaust as a civilian onlooker to the war. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak he tells the story of Liesel Meminger who travels to a foster home in Munich Germany, and experiences what it’s like to live in a war. She deals with rations, knowledge limited to the learnings of what Hitler wants the children to know, survival of the fittest, and the reality of death around her. With the Hubermann family, and her best friend Rudy, Markus takes us on a journey that shows that life as a child in Nazi Germany is difficult when
In 1940s Germany, during Hitler’s “Third Reich”, Jewish families were determined to be a threat to the economic and spiritual development of the nation. In order to “save” Germany, the first solution was simply to force Jews into ghettos. Later this led to them being forced into concentration camps where they were systematically destroyed. Millions died in such a manner and of the survivors, many families were destroyed. Jewish families were separated primarily because during the forced labor expeditions of the concentration camps, they were separated according to gender. Men went one direction and women went another; after the war was over, many assumed their families were dead and if anyone had survived they hoped that they might one day reconvene somewhere far safer than Germany. Nazi emphasis on utility and practicality led to the separation of many Jewish families, as they gladly relocated Jews according to their needs and killed those who they had no use for.
The Hitler Youths were taught that Adolf Hitler was a loving father-figure who was always watching. In 1984, the whole population is constantly shown propaganda that Big Brother is always watching. The kids in 1984 love Big Brother more than their own parents, in the Hitler Youth, children were taught that Hitler was more important than their own family. The main reason why the Hitler Youth and the Junior Spies exist is the same, they both want to infiltrate family life.
To conclude, Jewish partisans, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and non-Jewish people led Jews to exemption. Day after day we are reminded of these terrible times. From political to comedic views, there is no way of forgetting what happened in Germany. It is an amazing feeling to know that there were some individuals who stood against the Nazis, proudly. Without those magnificent people, the war may have never ended, who knows? From young to old, big to small, this event had an impact on everyone’s hearts, and it continues to today. Maybe it is a lesson well learned, that making an impact and trying to help does not always turn out so
The Holocaust is a very large topic with many subtopics within, which many people have never heard of. One in particular is the Hidden Children of the Holocaust. Like a majority of individuals, I never heard of this topic before, until I started my inquiry work. Hiding children during the holocaust was an effort to save thousands of children’s lives. The children were hidden in different ways, either with false identities, underground, and with or without their parents. The children with false identities were allowed to participate in everyday life activities, like attend school and socialize with children their age, which in the long run this lead to less emotional and mental issues. However, the children that were hidden and not allowed to leave their hiding spots often faced boredom, pain, and torment. Some children were capable of being hid with their parents while other children were not. Depending on the situation the child was in, depends on the effects it had on the child during this time. In this paper, I will be discussing works by two scholars, Natalia Aleksiun’s Gender and Daily Lives of Jews in Hiding in Eastern Galicia and Judy Mitchell’s Children of the Holocaust. Aleksiun’s article talks about the daily lives of Jews in hiding and also about how they prepared their hideouts. Aleksiun’s article mainly focuses on children that were hidden with their families. In Mitchell’s article, he focuses on the hidden children and gives examples/survivor stories on what it
All single and married women up to the age of thirty-five who do not already have four children should be obligated to produce four children by radically pure, German men.” This statement was made by Hitler’s government in 1933 that became a further law in Germany. Analyzing this argument it’s possible to say that Hitler Youth movement started before the birth of the child.
Relevance to Audience: When thinking of this brave 13 year old girl, most think of the Jewish culture, Adolf Hitler, and the Nazi Soldiers of Germany. But of us really know the pain and suffering the Jewish