Analysis Of Helen Zippi's Approaching An Auschwitz Survivor

Helen “Zippi” Spitzer Tichauer, one of the only few Auschwitz survivors, opens up and shares her testimony of how she survived, the horrible nightmare that was the holocaust. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp, in Poland. Over a million Jewish lives were taken from this appalling event. In the book, Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor, it goes into detail on Zippi’s life. Now at the age of ninety, Zippi is one of the last living holocaust survivors. This book gives her oral interview, and gives the reader the ups and downs of how this interview was transcribed. Zippi was a young girl from Czechoslovakian, when she got summoned into Auschwitz. She was one of the first arrivals at the death camp. “The first transport consisted of un-married girls who were called upon to operate.”() Zippi was lucky, being one of the first arrivals meant she got her own pair of shoes. The living conditions were extremely poor. Once more people began to arrive, they had to share bunks with other girls. To survive they would receive moldy bread, watery soup, and tea.() Zippi knew to survive, she had to stay as …show more content…
After the uniforms, were no longer sufficient enough, they were given civilian clothing.() To distinguish the prisoners from everyone else, they were given a large black stripe on the back of the shirts. Since this was a new task, they needed someone preferably a women to complete this task. Zippi began working at this job from dusk to dawn. Her job was to mix paints, and make the stripes onto the shirts. Many of the Jewish men, slept with the German women. During the daytime, there was available beds throughout the DP quarters. The Jewish men, had cigarettes, and chocolates to offer, to the German women.() This was something, that was irrelevant in the book. Auschwitz was a horrific place, where many lives were taken daily. Even mentioning romance is irrelevant to the importance of this