Why Did Trude Silman Survive The Holocaust

One man was lucky enough to be saved, his name was Max Diamant, he was one of the jews she decided to hide and Max had just escaped off the train headed to the death camps. He later changed his name to Josef Burzminski and became Stefania’s husband for 50 years. He became a dentist in Poland and the couple immigrated to New York to have raised two children. When people stand by and watch something go on that they know is wrong, they are just as guilty of the people themselves who are doing it. This women had a heart and saved a man who ended up to be the love of her life, I believe that good deeds come around, she starred with her husband on the Oprah Winfrey show. Her apathy for the people who were being prosecuted shows that we all can take action and do something to prevent bullying or racism. She chose not to be a bystander, because she saw no difference in human but

Anne Frank was one over a million children that died during the Holocaust. The Frank family was in hiding for quite some time before they were found. The Nazi's finally found them and took them to concentration camps. Anne Frank went to a total of three camps. At her first camp, she, her sister Margot, Mrs. Van Daan, her mother, and other people that were hiding with them immediately got separated from the boys in their family. One lady that worked at the camp told Anne she would never see her father or anyone ever again. Anne and her sister Margot always stuck together. Sadly though, Anne only made it to three camps. She died at age fifteen. Margot was the only one who made it through the whole war. She recently passed away in 2010.

“It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” (Anne Frank) Anne Frank was one of the many children who fell victim to the Holocaust during the World War II. Anne’s story is nothing short of a tragedy; she died at the early age of fifteen from Typhus while being held by the Nazi Regime, in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Before dying, Anne and her family went into hiding and lived secretly in her father's office building in the Netherlands. While living in the “Annex,” a secret hiding place, she developed many interests such as reading and writing. Anne is famous because she is one of the best-known victims of the Holocaust, her story has been shared with millions in a publication of her diary, and through her writing’s she introduces many people to the massacre and its horror.

P: The purpose of This interview with blanka Rothschild is to help the researcher learn everything that happened to survivors after the holocaust.This interview shows their life in the concentration camps their lives when they try to return home and then their past up to present day. This shows how the nazis treated the survivors who took who in and the places that survivors fled too.

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)

Hannah’s background as a Holocaust survivor is important for understanding the experience of the Holocaust. Her story provides unique insight on the Holocaust outside of concentration camps, dispels myths, and captivates the emotional aura of living during the Holocaust. Hannah’s story is one of resistance, danger, and the importance of family.

The article, “The Girl Who Lived Forever”, by Kristen Lewis, describes the hardships of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, and her family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Anne Frank lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. She and her family managed to survive for 2 long years in hiding, by living in a secret annex behind her father’s pectin factory. In August of 1944, the SS captured Anne and the others hiding in the annex. All but Otto Frank, Anne’s father, perished in the Nazi concentration camps. Though they lived through unspeakable and unimaginable challenges, Anne, her family and their friends showed a tremendous amount of courage trying to defy Hitler and his evil regime.

The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million people of innocent Jewish decent by the Nazi government. The Holocaust was a very tragic time in history due to the idealism that people were taken from their surroundings, persecuted and murdered due to the belief that German Nazi’s were superior to Jews. During the Holocaust, many people suffered both physically and mentally. Tragic events in people’s lives cause a change in their outlook on the world and their future. Due to the tragic events that had taken place being deceased in their lives, survivors often felt that death was a better option than freedom.

“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.

She says that many ask why didn’t you fight back, or why did you go like sheep to be slaughtered without any resistance? The questions made her rethink her experience. In her 70’s she began to write about her imprisonment, and after the times of 9/11 it is crucial that she felt she told her story. If she shared her experiences, this will be one more convincing piece of evidence against the possibility of interment camps in the United States every happening again.

After her husband Rudolf got killed, she lost her job because of the communist party. As long as the communist was running things she was not allowed to have a job. Thrown out of every house she moved to because the party controlled that as well, this goes to show that they truly had control over everything. She studied how the people act under a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. “Loss of Father , loss of Husband , loss of honor , loss of Health , Loss of Employment and opportunity to complete education “ (Kovaly pg.174) all under a party that her and her husband joined, the had to let it be known that the party wasn’t going to do anything that they

First, we start off with the main character named Sophia, she is in love with a man who not only beats her, but abuses drugs a lot. This man’s name is Nathan and is a bad influence in Sophie’s life. Later, we discover that Nathan is no longer abusive to Sophie, because he kills himself with Cyanide, the same drug used in the Gas chambers at death camps. At first, we see Sophie’s character as just a regular person that has bad taste in men. But, we realize later in the story that she has been hiding her secrets of her past from her friends all this time, which is hinted at, when we discover a blue number tattooed on her arm. We now know she is a concentration camp survivor that not only was abused sexually by Nazi’s, but is not even Jewish at all. She is actually Polish, and was not a labor worker at the camp digging and doing various physical demanding tasks. Sophie’s job at the camps was to translate things for the Nazi’s, which resulted in helping her not die from weather or weakness, like many victims went through. Although she is not involved with the killing of people, she does however still feel guilty because she helped her racist father make Pamphlets for how the Jews were pollutants. She also underwent the tragic event of being separated from her son after being admitted into the camp. Lastly, we see another major character named Stingo, he ends up being Sophie’s

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

The holocaust was a time people were surrounded by humiliation, exploitation, hardships, loss and death. It was barely possible for people to stay human during this time. The Holocaust was a severe tragedy that happened in the early 1940s and will forever be remembered. There were many people,The Bielski brothers in particular, who remarkably fought against the beliefs and doings of Hitler and the Nazi party.

21 years ago, she began devoting her time speaking to the public about her experiences. She has talked all over the world, allowing everyone to hear her story. Along with traveling all over the world to tell her story, she has her own film “My name is Noemi” and her own book “Sharing is Healing: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story.” The film and the book both provide insight into a different perspective of her story. They both add to her credibility, and allow a more in depth look of what it was like. For someone who has been through such a difficult task to talk about, her overall presentation was outstanding. She was even able to add some humor to such a dark topic, which helped alleviate the saddening