The Survivors Of The Holocaust

When the Nazis settled that the Jews were the primary cause of Germany’s problems in the Second World War, they launched a mission aimed at torturing and killing them (Rosenfield 28). In particular, they sought to wipe all the Jews out of the surface of the earth. To gain political mileage, Hitler faulted the Jews for Germany’s economic woes following the First World War. This further created a lot of negative feelings required for Hitler to come and rule Germany. He embarked on a mission geared towards imprisoning the Jewish people in concentration camps. In January 1937, 214,000 Jews by religious definition lived in Germany. The persecution of the Jews in 1940s took

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.

During the reign of the Third Reich, the symbolization of the pink triangle was used to identify the thousands of gay prisoners who were sent to extermination camps under Paragraph 175, the law that criminalized homosexuality between men. Researchers say that an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 gay men died in these camps, however this figure does not include those who were interned and later released, let alone those who died undocumented and forever forgotten to history.¹ These thousands of men were forced through excruciating cruelties with little to no reprieve or recognition of the atrocities perpetrated against them. It is because of this that while they are not a distinct racial, ethnic, or religious group, the treatment of those who bore the pink triangle during the Holocaust follows the genocidal process and as such gay Holocaust victims should be considered sufferers of genocide.

As the 1930’s came along, The Nazi’s set out a series of laws and regulations called ‘Nazi Laws’. One of the very first laws was ,”Laws against Overcrowding in German schools and universities”. This was a result of many children were looked down upon by Hitler and his Nazis as ‘racially inferior’. Letters from German Children to the editor of the Nazi tabloid Der Sturmer reveal a shameful potpourri Lettof and fanaticism against their Jewish classmates. The first punishment for the Jews and Gypsy children was to be presented in front of peers and downgraded by teachers as a lesson for the German children. Then all at once the children were restricted from all schools. Not long after the first act of public humiliation, the Germans invaded many Jewish neighborhoods, families and children were forced into overcrowded ghettos with scarce food resources and unhealthy living conditions . This was the Invasion of Poland, 1939. Jewish children died of starvation and little exposure to shelter, the great numbers of deaths caused by this were a mere indifference to the German officers. And because the food was such a high demanded resource, adults would send small toddlers between the crevices in the gates and over the walls to retrieve portions of food. This started a few of popular resistance activities, underground resistance was large. Sometimes if the Ghettos were run by Jewish relatives, certain ones could escape easier. Punishments would include

Each of these histories reveal a story of suffering that is endured by both Gentile and Jew, but also a story of humanity and salvation. In Five Chimneys: A woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz, Olga Lengyel tells of her family assisting other Jews fleeing the Nazi military. Later, after her own ordeals in Auschwitz, she was saved by citizens in a small Polish village. An essay written by Vera Laska is included in Women and the Holocaust: Different Voices, which is an anthology of essays about women in the Holocaust. In addition to the many stories of survivors and rescuers, I am using several scholarly articles

In 1983 Aharon Appelfeld published a work of fiction titled Tzili that closely resembled his own personal Holocaust experiences. This work of fiction revolves around a maturing teen who is alone and on the run during the Holocaust. In Tzili, Appelfeld brings to life his characters, which include Tzili, Katrina, Mark, and Linda. Throughout this literary analysis Appelfelds’ memoir Story of a Life will be used to access the parallels that exist between Appelfeld’s own personal experience and his fictional work Tzili.

The Holocaust was the systematic state-sponsored torment and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime in Germany. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933 and believed that Germans were racially superior to all others. With that, they deemed that the Jews were inferior and a threat to the “pure” German racial community. Over the next twelve years, the German Army captured and tortured many Jewish men, women, and children. The Holocaust is one of the most appalling times in history. However, Alexander Ehrmann and Primo Levi were two young men that managed to survive to the horrific events. While their stories and circumstances are vastly different, they faced many of the same misfortunes while being held in concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust.

After WWII ended it didn't change the emotional affect that it had on the people involved. Many Jewish survivors feared to return to their former homes because of the anti semitism that persisted in parts of Europe and the trauma they had suffered. Some who returned home feared for their lives. In postwar Poland, for example, there were a lot of violent anti jewish riots. With little to no possibilities for emigration, thousands of homeless holocaust survivors went west to different territories.A reasonable amount of Jewish people worked to help other Jewish people.

Dehumanization is defined as a psychological process whereby members of a group of people assert the inferiority of another group.� Opponents view each other as less than human and thus not deserving of moral consideration, and are treated as less than humans through subtle or overt acts or statements.� Experiencing dehumanization can often lead to feelings of intense hatred and alienation among conflicting parties. The more severe the conflict, the more the psychological distance between groups will widen. Eventually, this can result in moral exclusion and these people are typically viewed as inferior, evil, or criminal.� In the holocaust, the Jews, in the eyes of Nazis, are a group of people that do not deserve moral consideration.� The Holocaust affected the lives of millions because of the hate inside of one certain group of people: the Nazi 's.� The victims of the Holocaust provide an excellent example of individuals who suffered from the torment of this psychological process as, for a variety of reasons, the Nazi 's goal was to deprive human qualities such as individuality, compassion and most importantly, identity through the process of dehumanization. In his attempt to bear witness to the horrors of the Nazis ' attempt to exterminate the Jewish people, Primo Levi, a Jewish-Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor provides his own personal testimony of his experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the form of his memoirs, If This Is a Man. In these

Thousands of Jews were saved because of the people that helped hide them from the Nazis and also helped fight back against the Nazis. Most Jews survived the holocaust by hiding in places such as houses, attics, cellars, closets, and anywhere else they could find to hide. Jews that fought against the Nazis were called Jewish resistance fighters. These Jews managed to help save thousands of other Jews from death from the Germans. Jews fought back in many different ways, including Spiritual ,and physical resistance. Jews fought back spiritually by refusing to lose hope and faith in the concentration camps even when their situation was very bleak. The holocaust would have been much worse for the Jews if weren't for

Likewise, both stories have their similarities, but they also have their differences in the way they survived the Holocaust.

Anne Frank and Vahan Kenderian experience many of the same things during their lives, such as surviving a mass genocide of their own people. Vahan

“ There are all these moments you think you won’t survive. And then you survive.”~ David Levithan. Holocaust survivors embodied this quote because they had odds stacked against them and were surrounded by death but still they survived. The Holocaust started on January 30, 1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. During the Holocaust around 11 million jews, gypsies, mentally ill people, disabled people, and anyone else Adolf Hitler didn't see fit were killed. Hitler had an ideal master race in mind for Germany. These people were tall, had blond hair, and had blue eyes. Hitler and his party members, Nazis, sent the people they thought that didn’t fit in to camps. In these camps they were forced to live and work in poor conditions until the Nazis decided to kill them. Not many people

In today's world we are aware of the Holocaust because of what we are told. Therefore, it is the personal accounts and stories that help us to better understand the experience. Looking into survivors’ stories, I’ve come to realize how something can be so similar yet so different. In saying this I mean that each individual has experienced equivalence during the Holocaust, but dealt with and survived it all their own.

January 30th, 1933 was the beginning of an event that shook the world. It was a time period where death was peace to the torture distributed to millions of people. This event was the Holocaust, where Jewish people were targeted specifically by German leaders who wanted to show the world an example of how to exterminate so, called 'pests'. Millions of Jews tortured and killed by the Nazi regime. Nazi nationalism was the belief issued over eastern Europe in a time period where being marginalized and a minority signaled death. Nazi leaders carried out orders to round up these people and place them in death camps to exterminate them once for all. From the commander in chief to a measly guard, they were carrying out orders to kill millions of people. May 8th, 1945 the end to pain for the Jewish people, but was it? The allied powers put an end to the Nazi ruling and made Germany submit to a new order with the Truth commissions and the Nuremberg Trials. Jewish survivors were out on stands to give testimony to what they experienced through these events. Although plenty of Nazi served prison time many fled. They were undercover hiding in the depths of disguises making new lives in countries that were once the allied party. Now in the 21st century, these men are being discovered and led to trial to stand for the Crimes against humanity that they enforced. Men such as Klaus Barbie, Maurice Papón, John Demjanjuk, Hubert Zafke, Reinhold Hanning and many others. Seeking justice is