The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

The Novel Hitler’s Daughter, written by award winning author, Jackie French, is a story within a story, about a fictional young girl called Heidi; living in World War 2 in Germany and is living in isolation with no contact with other children or anyone outside her home. The story is made up by one of the main characters, Anna, who tells the story to a few other schoolmates at the bus shelter. At the end of the novel, Heidi is left alone and has to defend herself from the bombs with no food or protection. The theme of the novel is morality, which is displayed various times during the novel. The meaning of morality is knowing the difference of what is right and what is wrong. The hypothesis is that the story will end happily and Heidi will find a family.

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

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)

In the selection, “Isabella Katz And the Holocaust: A Living Testimony”, by Richard L. Greaves, the author tells about the Holocaust, the destruction of the Jews by the Nazis and the terrible experiences of people who were there. Оne of the participants of these events is Isabelle Katz that lived with her family in Hungary. In 1944, Hitler occupied Hungary with the idea to kill all the Jews. One day, fascists took her family and all other Jews from their homes. Later, all of them were transported to the camp of Auschwitz. Upon arrival at the camp, all families were separated. Isabella heard screams of people burning in crematorium within 9 months when she was there. The Jews in the camp were on the brink of their life and death, depending only

After Edith, her mother, and sister were sent to a concentration camp, they had to learn to survive all on their own. During their time in this concentration camp, Edith was forced to work on a empty stomach without food; however, she persevered and turned to her faith to mentally, and psychically push herself. She was even able to help her friend(Rachel) with friendship, with can help a person mentally, considering how lonely most, if not all the Jewish people had felt during the holocaust. Edith stole clothes, blankets, and food for herself, and other’s in order to survive. In addition to this, she also sabotaged ammunition for the German tanks during World War II, therefore helping the world by disrupting Nazi Germany’s tanks, and possibly saving lives.

Anxiety washed over the poor boy. It was dark, darker than Zerdek had ever know. With each second that passed, a low mumble could be heard from the corner. Something or someone else was here with him. Wherever here was. He shut his eyes thinking about the light. Thinking about anything that would make it seem like he was back at home. Home. He tried to remember the faces. He tried to remember each of the tree top building. Yet it was a blur. Everything that had happen with-in the last few hours, day, months was a giant blur from him. He had no concept of time. A click came from afar, as light came barreling in. Zerdek let out a low growl as he covered his eyes, unable to adjust to the light quickly enough. Arms reached out and pulled to two

“I pray you never stand at any crossroads in your own lives, but if you do, if the darkness seems so total, if you think there is no way out, remember, never ever give up. The darker the night, the brighter the dawn, and when it gets really, really dark, this is when one sees the true brilliance of the stars.” These words were spoken by Gerda Klein, a Holocaust survivor. Her story is filled with desperation and an overwhelming sense of hope. Gerda Weissmann was born in Bielsko, Poland. Both of her parents and her older brother died during the Holocaust. She was somehow able to survive “the ghetto, deportation, slave labor camps and a three month death march. She was rescued by an American soldier named Kurt Klein. She ended up marrying him and moving to the United States.

Survival is living on the hope that better things are yet to come in your life. Right now in our country people survive because of hope and the belief that people are good and they will help them out. People survive when they are homeless on the streets only because of the people who are good at heart and give them food or money to buy clothing for the winter. Gerta survived because of her family and friends. Anne Frank survived because she believed that “Despite all the evil going on in the world I still believe that all people are good at heart.”

Ellie Wiesel began his journey as a normal twelve year old Jewish boy who devoted his life to praying and worshiping God. His life was perfect until the Germans decided to take all of that away. The Germans invaded their homes, and took them all to concentration camps. Elie had not realized how cruel people could possibly be, and the drastic measures people will take in order to survive. He saw horrendous things that seemed so unreal. Babies were

One morning the Jews were told to form a line, shortly after, a Nazi truck pulled up looking for strong workers in the field. They chose Edith. For years Edith worked on a farm, with the promise that if she toiled in the field for the entire time that the sun was in the sky, her family would be kept safe. She is then transported to a box factory where cardboard boxes are produced. With an unreachable quota of boxes to fill, she worked endlessly to reach it.

Elie’s family was taken away by SS Nazi soldiers on a cattle car train to Auschwitz concentration camp. Immediately after arriving, all of the women, including Elie’s mother and sisters, were separated from the men. Luckily enough, Elie remained by his father’s side, but to be in a place that smells of burning flesh, and soldiers screaming abhorrent words towards Jews while holding rifles, was traumatic for Elie. He had no knowledge of what was to happen to his own mother and sisters, but had a precise vision as to their fate while at Auschwitz, the emotional strife was already high and only just beginning for him. So after being separated, Elie is seen by Dr. Mengele, survival kicks in for Elie and he lies to the Doctor

Edith's life of accomplishment began at a very young age. "Only two years after her birth, in Breslau in 1891, as the youngest child in a large Jewish family, Edith's father died suddenly at the age of 48..." (Payne).

As things could get any worse, Irena was captured and put to work in an ammunition factory. She was acknowledged that she understood German and spoke it well. She taken to work in the kitchen and serve food with Herr Schulz. She quickly noticed that Schulz was not like any German, he demonstrated kindness and generosity. While she was working, she observed soldiers shooting many Jews in the Jewish ghetto just outside of the dining hall. She now knew how the soldiers handled their “Jewish problem.” Within that day, she knew she wanted to help Jews in any way possible. It was told that if one was caught helping a Jew, death would be their punishment. She began to place food in a metal box and placing it under the fence. She soon

The year was 1880-1900 was when everything was normal and her family was save from all the tragic that they were going to be faced with years later. Her family was one of the richest Jews in Germany and also the smartest people in Germany but no even them could have seen what was about to happened coming. In 1930 was the year it all changed, it was the year that Adolf Hitler was put into power. Years later after he was put into power he blamed all the Jews for Germany's problems and in result many Jews lost there job, businesses, savings and homes. People that were already in trouble they were in more trouble but no matter how rich or poor you were, if you were a Jew you were all treated as unwelcome outsiders.