My Stepdad's Story Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust Jews like many other minority groups, have a time in their history, where they were left out. During the WWII era, an infamous event took place took place against Jewish people that shocked the world. This event is known as the Holocaust. My stepdad’s family like many other families during that time, lived in fear of being sent to concentration camps or being killed off by the Nazi administration. My stepdad told me how his family attempted to flee from Germany and their neighboring allies because of this. He also told me that everywhere his ancestors would go, they would get rejected, and it was not until his family reached Africa, that they knew they were truly safe. His family’s story is a similar fate that many other lucky …show more content…
He thought of all other races as not human. In his Testament, he left his money to his family and this message to all of Germany. "Above all I charge the leaders of the nation and those under them to scrupulous observance of the laws of race and to merciless opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry." Hitler seemed invincible however, the allied powers managed to win decisive battles and Hitler knowing the end was near, committed suicide and shot himself in the mouth. With the death of Hitler, the Nazi party was soon disbanded. However, his mark was left through camps such as Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, and Treblinka. These camps contained quick methods of killing Jews. In these camps over 6 million Jews and others were killed. There was one story I remember hearing when I went to the Holocaust museum in Israel. I was listening to a survivors recording, and remember that she said that during that time she was just a young girl who did not know what exactly was going on. She had a sense that something was bad, but she did not imagine that something as heinious as the Holocaust was happening. In her story, she describes vividly the last time she had talked to her parents and how some Nazi soldiers entered her house and took her parents away from her. Before her parents left, they told her to run and hide. She did. She ran to her grandmother’s house, where she explained what had just happened. When she asked her grandma where her parents were taken, her grandmother pointed to a complex far off into the distance. There was smoke coming from the complex, and I was confused as to what she meant. Looking back now, “I now know what she meant. She meant to say that my parents had were killed by gas.” This story is just one of many stories that other people had to experience during that