The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was an important event that happened and we will never forget what happened. The Holocaust occurred around the Second World War and Nazis, a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, killed people, mainly Jews as an act of racism. During the Holocaust, about six million Jews died. Between one hundred thousand and five hundred thousand helped the Nazis in the planning or the execution of the Holocaust. The Holocaust persecution was carried out in different stages. After the Holocaust, about eleven million people died including Gypsies, Poles, communists, homosexuals, and mentally and physically disabled people. There were a lot of heroes during the course of the holocaust, but one stood
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Her father died around the First World War, so she was a foster child during her childhood. In 1919, she returned to Vienna and in 1920 she joined the Swiss Relief Committee children's train to Switzerland. She stayed with her foster family in Kilchberg. She attended school and she was trained as a nurse. With twenty years she was naturalized in Switzerland. After a year and half of work stay in Florence she went to work in 1941 in Switzerland by the Swiss Association for war-affected children. On November 12, 1941 Reiter was sent by the Secours Suisse to the Rivesaltes internment camp in the unoccupied zone of France. There, she did her best with puny resources to provide medical care, clothing and food for the imprisoned Jewish, Gypsy and Spanish children. She made an effort to save as many young children as she could in a short span of …show more content…
Meanwhile, a police officer was assigned to make sure the Jewish people board the train in an orderly way. The sixteen year old knew Friedel well because Hilda was taken care of by Friedel during her work at Secours Suisse. When the police officer’s attention was elsewhere, she ran to Bohny-Reiter with her sister, who had signaled them. Bohny-Reiter led them to a dark storeroom that was unlit in the camp. The storeroom had in it food from Secours Suisse. Bohny kept delivering children to the storeroom, that was safe and protected, until the train left. She sent the young children to private homes, which the parents cared and nurtured for these young kids, affiliated with her organization. She saved the childrens lives by doing this, because their parents were sent to Auschwitz and murdered there. In her rescue actions, she ignored the leaders of Secours Suisse instructions for any activist that they had, -to obey the French government’s orders and eagerly punished those who acted in any way to save and rescue the
Her father died around the First World War, so she was a foster child during her childhood. In 1919, she returned to Vienna and in 1920 she joined the Swiss Relief Committee children's train to Switzerland. She stayed with her foster family in Kilchberg. She attended school and she was trained as a nurse. With twenty years she was naturalized in Switzerland. After a year and half of work stay in Florence she went to work in 1941 in Switzerland by the Swiss Association for war-affected children. On November 12, 1941 Reiter was sent by the Secours Suisse to the Rivesaltes internment camp in the unoccupied zone of France. There, she did her best with puny resources to provide medical care, clothing and food for the imprisoned Jewish, Gypsy and Spanish children. She made an effort to save as many young children as she could in a short span of …show more content…
Meanwhile, a police officer was assigned to make sure the Jewish people board the train in an orderly way. The sixteen year old knew Friedel well because Hilda was taken care of by Friedel during her work at Secours Suisse. When the police officer’s attention was elsewhere, she ran to Bohny-Reiter with her sister, who had signaled them. Bohny-Reiter led them to a dark storeroom that was unlit in the camp. The storeroom had in it food from Secours Suisse. Bohny kept delivering children to the storeroom, that was safe and protected, until the train left. She sent the young children to private homes, which the parents cared and nurtured for these young kids, affiliated with her organization. She saved the childrens lives by doing this, because their parents were sent to Auschwitz and murdered there. In her rescue actions, she ignored the leaders of Secours Suisse instructions for any activist that they had, -to obey the French government’s orders and eagerly punished those who acted in any way to save and rescue the