Heroes of the Holocaust
The holocaust was a horrific period that was all about WWII and Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was looking to create an Aryan Race which, in his eyes, was the perfect race. As time passed, he and his Nazi regime created the Final Solution. This plan included the decimation of the Jewish population. However, there were many who found this solution immoral and inhumane. Some of these brave souls took it into their own hands to protect the lives of the Jews, even if it cost theirs. This essay will explore the journeys and the stories of Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, and the Bielski Brothers.
Oskar Schindler went to Poland as soon as Hitler invaded the country. When he arrived in Krakow, his first intention was to make a profit out of the …show more content…
At first, Oskar was able to pass the Jews off as essential workers for the war effort, but this became harder and Oskar more frequently found himself bribing the Germans ("Oskar Schindler Biography"). His bribery really started to increase around June of 1942 when the Germans started relocating Krakow’s ghettos (part of this first group of people who were ordered to go to the train station worked in Oskar’s factory). Oskar, hearing this, raced down to the station and worked out an agreement. He convinced the SS workers that he was friends with high officials in the Nazi Regime and he was able to safely bring his workers back. In 1943, the Germans started what was called “the final liquidation” of the Krakow ghettos. To prevent his workers from getting relocated to Plaszow, he created his own Labor Camp in his factory to protect them. Oskar once said this about the Jews he saved: “I knew the people that worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings” ("TOP 9 QUOTES BY OSKAR"). He knew his workers not as Jews, but as people who desperately needed
The holocaust was a horrific period that was all about WWII and Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was looking to create an Aryan Race which, in his eyes, was the perfect race. As time passed, he and his Nazi regime created the Final Solution. This plan included the decimation of the Jewish population. However, there were many who found this solution immoral and inhumane. Some of these brave souls took it into their own hands to protect the lives of the Jews, even if it cost theirs. This essay will explore the journeys and the stories of Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, and the Bielski Brothers.
Oskar Schindler went to Poland as soon as Hitler invaded the country. When he arrived in Krakow, his first intention was to make a profit out of the …show more content…
At first, Oskar was able to pass the Jews off as essential workers for the war effort, but this became harder and Oskar more frequently found himself bribing the Germans ("Oskar Schindler Biography"). His bribery really started to increase around June of 1942 when the Germans started relocating Krakow’s ghettos (part of this first group of people who were ordered to go to the train station worked in Oskar’s factory). Oskar, hearing this, raced down to the station and worked out an agreement. He convinced the SS workers that he was friends with high officials in the Nazi Regime and he was able to safely bring his workers back. In 1943, the Germans started what was called “the final liquidation” of the Krakow ghettos. To prevent his workers from getting relocated to Plaszow, he created his own Labor Camp in his factory to protect them. Oskar once said this about the Jews he saved: “I knew the people that worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings” ("TOP 9 QUOTES BY OSKAR"). He knew his workers not as Jews, but as people who desperately needed