The Holocaust was a tragic time in our past that many people would like to forget. Many people who lived through it have now passed away, but there are still a few survivors left in the world.
Josiane Traum was living with her family at the time of the Holocaust in Belgium and was only three when the Nazi’s began to invade. After the Nazi invaded everyone needed an ID card that said your religion on it. Traum’s mother put her into a convent to avoid capture by the Nazi’s, but a little while after being put into the convent Traum’s mother and father were captured by the Nazi. Traum was moved out of the convent and into a home of a family who was part of the Belgian Resistance, which kept Jewish families and children hidden in different houses all over Belgium to prevent the Nazi’s from catching every Jewish …show more content…
They moved to New Jersey and lived with Traum’s mom’s elderly aunt for about a month. Many people during the Holocaust were not lucky enough to be reunited with family members, but other were. The way many people got back together was by looking at boards that the Red Cross had put up that had names of people on them, and where they were being treated by the Red Cross.
A while after the Holocaust Traum went back to Belgium in 1989 and was trying to figure out what had happened to the family and nuns she stayed with, and she found out that the family had all died, and the nuns convent had dispersed. She to this day does not know what killed the family. She also considered going to Israel, and ended up living there for five years.
Traum works at the Holocaust museum in DC and her mom who is 100 years old volunteers once a week at the question desk. Traum says that police and FBI members must go on a three-hour tour of the museum before they graduate. Traum saw a woman find the name of her boyfriend on a list of people found after the Holocaust, and she began to
Josiane Traum was living with her family at the time of the Holocaust in Belgium and was only three when the Nazi’s began to invade. After the Nazi invaded everyone needed an ID card that said your religion on it. Traum’s mother put her into a convent to avoid capture by the Nazi’s, but a little while after being put into the convent Traum’s mother and father were captured by the Nazi. Traum was moved out of the convent and into a home of a family who was part of the Belgian Resistance, which kept Jewish families and children hidden in different houses all over Belgium to prevent the Nazi’s from catching every Jewish …show more content…
They moved to New Jersey and lived with Traum’s mom’s elderly aunt for about a month. Many people during the Holocaust were not lucky enough to be reunited with family members, but other were. The way many people got back together was by looking at boards that the Red Cross had put up that had names of people on them, and where they were being treated by the Red Cross.
A while after the Holocaust Traum went back to Belgium in 1989 and was trying to figure out what had happened to the family and nuns she stayed with, and she found out that the family had all died, and the nuns convent had dispersed. She to this day does not know what killed the family. She also considered going to Israel, and ended up living there for five years.
Traum works at the Holocaust museum in DC and her mom who is 100 years old volunteers once a week at the question desk. Traum says that police and FBI members must go on a three-hour tour of the museum before they graduate. Traum saw a woman find the name of her boyfriend on a list of people found after the Holocaust, and she began to