The Holocaust: The Stories Of The Unbroken American Survivors

Over six million people died in the Holocaust. Family, friends, and other people with the same ethnicity that they didn't even know were killed left and right. From the crematory to getting hung. Was it best for them to help each other or was it to protect themselves and not care about anyone else? (Prompt 5)

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He went to work at a bank office in Haifa, Palestine when he first encountered Jews affected by Hitler. He soon became a joint owner and national director of the Mid-European Trading Company. It was from connections in the company and his capabilities that he started his most important work. This happened when his business partner recommended him to the United States’ War Refugee Board for Hungary on the behalf of the Swedish government. The board at first thought that he could not do the work because he was too young and inexperienced, but he soon proved them wrong. He was appointed first secretary by Sweden so that he could start helping Jews. He wanted to do so much and not need to ask for permission all the time that he asked that he could be fully authorized to deal with whoever he wanted without having to first contact Sweden. This shows how much he wanted to help Jews. (Jewish Virtual Library) He had many methods to save as many Jews as he could, some of them being quite unconventional. He would bribe and threaten, climb trains, flag trains down, and even stand in front of them He would distribute Swedish protection passes to show the Germans

The Holocaust was a time that left a big scar on the culture of our world as a whole and there are still people suffering from it still to this day. In my investigation I will be looking at to what extent did the Holocaust affect the survivors, both mentally and physically upon return home from the concentration camps. I will be looking at books, both present and from the time period that talk about how they felt and what happened when they got home. I will also surf the internet, find interviews with survivors, look for articles, and newspapers from the time in order to get a better idea of what was going on in their life. I will then compare and contrast the facts at hand and pull out and mix what is the same and

Elizabeth Feldman –de Jang and Nathan Nothman are both survivors of the Holocaust, but just like every individual survivor, they share different stories. One of the few things that may unite them is the specific fact that they are both Jewish and despite all odds, they managed to survive and share their stories.

Her story is an example of a person who struggled with adversity but searched for a reason to hope. She has used her remarkable survival as an inspiration for those who have no reason to believe they can overcome struggles. She has a foundation named Citizenship Counts which teaches students about their rights and the importance of their citizenship. She has written many books about her experiences and her belief that hope will help a person overcome darkness. She travels the world today telling people her story to increase their knowledge of the Holocaust. Her story of survival serves of as an inspiration to people who are suffering and are looking for a reason to have hope.¹

When one looks through the history of the last century, many great atrocities can come to mind. However, the one that is the most common is that of the Holocaust during World War II. People often wonder how something like this could have been allowed to happen. These same people wonder this without realizing that something similar has happened, right within their own shores. Not only this, but they do not realize how previously close we could become to having this happen again.

Warsaw was busy making ditches and stuff because the Germans were coming. Rudi and his

The American Holocaust has had a major effect on the Native American people, and changed their lives forever. It all begins with the European and Spanish invasion of North America. The European people brought over dieses that the Native American were not exposed too and it caused deaths with in their groups. Also the Europeans brought over more advanced weapons and were able to take over the Native Americans, and this lead to the American Holocaust and shows the effect on the Native American people. These historical events have been used in many Native American stories, and a person is able to see the connections.

In 1945, Irene was able to make it to the United States. She continued to go to school, attending Queens University, then later attended Duke University to get her PhD in

Everybody had a different perspective on the Jews. One perspective is, Hitler believed the Jews were horrible. He had also explained and convinced this to the Nazis by saying they were “back stabbing” people. For example, the text Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf Excerpt from Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust” it states “..Germany had lost World War I through a “stab in the back” from its own government, which had allied itself with Jews. The Jews had so weakened the government that it had lost the will and the strength to fight.” The quote goes the show why Hitler and the Nazis have a hatred for the Jews. They explain and infer that they only reason why the Germans had lost World War 1 is because the Jews allied themselves with

WWII was a major event in this world's history that has left a major hole in our society that is still felt today. While we like to spend a lot of time thinking about the negatives, there were a lot of positives that came along with the war that are not so often recognized. One of these amazing acts during the war came from an ordinary man named Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was an Austrian businessman born in Zwittau, Moravia, on April 28, 1908. During the years leading up to and during the war, Schindler lived in Krakow, Poland.

Around the time he was 18, he went in Europe for a year. He did a reversal to Germany and enlisted in

“ Hans get ready for your third assignment!” yelled Jack. It was 1941 in Munich,

He was in concentration camps for a total of three years. The first was Theresienstadt in that camp he had done a lot of digging, and some factory work. He was then transported to Aushiwitz! Within this camp he would end up getting to help a doctor in a sick bay. They worked with what they had available, but it was not much, and not sufficient enough to really help those who were sick. While working in the sick bay, he had gone outside, and stood on too of a hatch the two men were hiding under, so that no guard would look inside, so he helped them escape. After he went to Aushiwitz, he was then sent to Dachau, he was sent here, because he volunteered to be a doctor for patients with typhus fever, his friends had warned him not to, but he figured that he wasn't going to live much longer anyway. Once he finally arrived, he was shown the sick quarters, and what he had to work with. He also realized that the new camp did not have gas chambers, and felt a little safer, then he previously felt at Aushiwitz, which everyone had to be careful what they did, because the gas chambers were not far away. He felt like the best way to survive, was to stay low, and stay out of trouble, and not to offer refuge to anyone who comes in your living quarters that doesn't live there. He felt that you needed to befriend the capos. This is do to the fact that the capos were actually more harsh than the SS guards. Viktor Frankl said, " Often they were harder on prisoners than were the guards, and beat them more cruelly than the SS men did." When he said they he was referring to the capos. He had one of the capos like him early on, and eventually he got to sit with him, and lived better than he had in the beginning of