Slide 10 in the Course Introduction PowerPoint describes the concept of “Personalizing the Victim.” Through the ID Cards Activity I learned just what it meant to personalize the victim. I was able to put a name and a story to a victim of the Holocaust. My ID card was Bertha Adler. The part of Bertha’s story that disturbed me the most was that on the Sunday she was supposed to visit her father in the hospital, the Gestapo had captured her and her family and took them to Auschwitz where Bertha died two days later from gassing. Reading that part of Bertha’s story made me so sad and so disgusted with the Holocaust. I agonized for Bertha. This activity has taught me that every victim of the Holocaust has a different and unique story. The Holocaust
