The Story Of Alicia's Story

In the year 1941, Lithuania was invaded and many Jewish families fled from Lithuania. Margarets family didn't leave because her brother Alik was at a children's holiday camp. Margaret was never sent to a camp, she lived in the ghetto. Margaret's description of the ghetto years as “dreadful”. The people were forced to do hard labour and were deprived of their food.

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

Vladek is depicted as a hero who shows countless acts of selflessness and generosity and a villain who is, “opinionated, tight-fisted, and self-involved”. (Brown 6) Art Spiegelman’s book Maus, tells the story of how Vladek and Anja Spiegelman survived the Holocaust. Spiegelman illustrates Vladek as a man who single-handily saved his family from starvation and Auschwitz in World War I. During Spiegelman’s interviews, we get an idea of Vladek’s darker side since the war ended. Mala to speak of her astonishment and disgust in Vladek’s character. Which leaves us to question how truthfully these stories are being told. In the end, Vladek’s unsuccessful heroism is a constant reminder of his failure; survival with Anja was always easier, after her death, Vladek pushes everyone away with his “guilt and manipulation” (Brown 7)

Before the war started Solomon Radasky was living in a small town in Warsaw called Praga. “I had a very nice life there, I had my own shop. I used to make fur coats”(Radasky). The last week in January in 1941 his Mother and his older sister were killed. “One morning I was caught by the jewish police on the street and they forced me to keep the trains running and to keep the snow off the tracks, one day I was returning from work

Intro: This book is about a Jewish boy named Yanek. This gives an inside look of what happened to Jewish people in the 1940s. He had a very hard life in the 6 year time duration he spent in the ghetto and concentration camps.

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

"It was crying and praying. So long we survived. And now we waited only that they shoot, because we had not else to do" (267). This quote from the end of the novel ironically describes what the Jewish people endured after the concentration camps. Vladek Spieglman among other suffered through traumatic experiences; though Vladek certainly did survive the holocaust, old Vladek did not. Post-Holocaust it is revealed by Spieglman that his father, Vladek, develops two personalities—before and after the concentration camps. Vladek’s post-holocaust life was haunted by the horrors he witnessed while being in the concentration camps; he went from a young, handsome resourceful man to a miserable, old man who does nothing but complain.

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.

In early November, the Gamzers and their neighbors, the Holtzmans, were forced to share one room of a tiny too-room house in the city's north side. Two other families had to share the other room. All together they dug a secret tunnel that led to a hiding place, so the Nazis couldn't find them when there would be another aktzia. They used it several times, but after a while Luncias father realized it wouldn't be save for her, so he made arrangements that she could live with the non-Jewish Mrs. Szczygiel and her family. Living there, she was never allowed to go out or even go near to a window, always had to be hidden, cause hosting Jews means dead. Even after the family decided to not host her anymore, because they were afraid to lose their lifes, Mrs. Szczygiel tried to hide her in a wooden trunk. One day though, one of her daughter found her hiding in there and the truth was out. Actually this was the best thing that could've happened to Luncia, because a day after that Mrs. Zczygiel brought her to the Ojaks, the family that was hosting her

In chapter one we meet Moishe The Beadle a poor Jew in Sighet where the author and narrator Eliezer also lives. Eliezer who is also jewish and studies Talmud but wants to learn Kabbalah but Eliezer’s father disapproves. Moishe knows Kabbalah and teaches Eliezer. One day all of the foreign Jews are forced to leave Sighet by the Hungarian police. Moishe The Beadle and others like him are forced into train cars like animals. Months pass when suddenly Moishe the Beadle returns and tells Eliezer what happened. They were taken to Poland and met the Gestapo who forced them to dig their own graves Moishe was able to escape after being shot in the leg and left for dead. Moishe then warns everyone to leave because danger is coming their way no one listens to his warning and it’s the end of 1942. Now it is spring 1944 and the people in Sighet begin listen to the radio in disbelief how one man (Hitler) is trying kill off an entire group of people. News from Budapest says that jews are being attacked by Nazis the Jews in Sighet are hopeful believing the Nazis won’t come near their town. When the Germans arrived while they are not extremely friendly they are not violent. As passover ends the limitation starts. Jews can not leave their house for three days or else they die, no longer allowed to keep valuable items and they must wear a yellow star. Eliezer’s father attends a meeting and comes home with news deporting starts tomorrow. The police are violent with the

“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

From the ashes of hate, a story of acceptance was born. Alicia Jurman was nine years old when the Russians invaded her town of Buczacz, Poland. The German Nazis followed almost immediately after. As a young Jewish girl, Alicia feared for her life on a daily basis. Alicia survived the German invasion and Holocaust, however, she lost everything that she previously needed to survive. Alicia Jurman wrote Alicia in 1982 in memory of “the children of the ghettos who were cruelly murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.” The novel is the manifestation of her concession that what she lost to the war will never come back. Alicia tells the courageous story of a girl looking for herself and love during the mass extinction of humanity and identity.

Anzia Yezierska’s personal immigrant narrative began in Russian Poland. She was born around 1885, and immigrated to America with her family when she was 15 years old. Yezierska’s family were Jews who escaped from the anti-Semitic government that was in control of Russia at that time. They settled in New York’s Lower East Side, along with millions of East European Jews who fled to the United States ("Anzia" 28:332).

The holocaust has effected more lives than anybody could imagine, the tragedy has not only affected those who were there or primarily affected but those of every generation to come after that. This illustrated by Art and Vladek’s inability to get along, Vladek’s personality quirks, Anja’s suicide, Art’s guilt, are all factors that contributed to the rocky family relationship the Spieglemans had, and are all due to the horrors of the holocaust. The horrors of which did not end when the Nazi’s were defeated in WW2, rather continuing to have an impact on further generations, in which all of their stories will never be

The point of view in the story “Because of Anya” is set with two different points of view, which makes the story more detailed. The characters that the story is told through are Anya and Keely. This affects the story and what I know is going on because it gives us, the readers, two separate people who are thinking about the subject in two different ways. On page 11, the author writes, “I’m glad I don’t have cancer.” In the situation Keely and her friends are implying that Anya has cancer because she is wearing a wig. On page 25, the author writes, “But it looks like alopecia areata.” This was written in Anya’s point of view. Alopecia Areata is a disease that causes a person to loose the hair on their body where in serious cases it can cause