“Avenge the blood of the Polish ghetto”
Over 11 million people died during the Holocaust, 6 million were Jews, and 1.1 million were children. During the later years of World War 2, Nazis started ordering all Jews to live within a certain area, called a ghetto. Some ghettos began as an “open” environment, which meant the Jewish residents could leave their homes, and community during the day but must come home before curfew. Later, they were forced to be “closed” ghettos, trapping the Jews inside the confined ghetto. The largest ghetto was located in Warsaw, the metropolis of a young girl, named Miriam Wattenberg…
Miriam Wattenberg was born in Lodz Poland, October 10, 1924. Years later at age fifteen Germany attacked Poland. Violence, battle cries, gunshots, and explosions right in her backyard... Shortly after Poland surrendered to German forces, she began a wartime diary, revealing the true horrors of the Holocaust. As an eighteen year old girl, the Wattenberg family fled to Warsaw in November, 1940. Miriam, with her parents, and younger sister forcefully had to …show more content…
That’s all the Wattenberg's had, that’s all the Jews had. “Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person with faith. And still, more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.”(Brother Lawrence) The world may not be discriminating the Jewish identically now. Nevertheless, racial, gender, religious, ethnical, sexuality, etc. discrimantion does live on. “Where are you foreign correspondents? Why don’t you come here and describe the sensational scenes of the ghetto? No doubt you don’t want to spoil your appetite… Is the whole world poisoned? Is there no justice anywhere? Will anyone hear our cries of despair?” (Mary Berg 5) We live in a world so hateful. A world so poisoned, someone would rather die than be who they are. That’s why we all must hope, have faith, and
Over 11 million people died during the Holocaust, 6 million were Jews, and 1.1 million were children. During the later years of World War 2, Nazis started ordering all Jews to live within a certain area, called a ghetto. Some ghettos began as an “open” environment, which meant the Jewish residents could leave their homes, and community during the day but must come home before curfew. Later, they were forced to be “closed” ghettos, trapping the Jews inside the confined ghetto. The largest ghetto was located in Warsaw, the metropolis of a young girl, named Miriam Wattenberg…
Miriam Wattenberg was born in Lodz Poland, October 10, 1924. Years later at age fifteen Germany attacked Poland. Violence, battle cries, gunshots, and explosions right in her backyard... Shortly after Poland surrendered to German forces, she began a wartime diary, revealing the true horrors of the Holocaust. As an eighteen year old girl, the Wattenberg family fled to Warsaw in November, 1940. Miriam, with her parents, and younger sister forcefully had to …show more content…
That’s all the Wattenberg's had, that’s all the Jews had. “Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person with faith. And still, more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.”(Brother Lawrence) The world may not be discriminating the Jewish identically now. Nevertheless, racial, gender, religious, ethnical, sexuality, etc. discrimantion does live on. “Where are you foreign correspondents? Why don’t you come here and describe the sensational scenes of the ghetto? No doubt you don’t want to spoil your appetite… Is the whole world poisoned? Is there no justice anywhere? Will anyone hear our cries of despair?” (Mary Berg 5) We live in a world so hateful. A world so poisoned, someone would rather die than be who they are. That’s why we all must hope, have faith, and