Ohana means family, but it also means goodbye. Family is the only hope of survival, in other cases like the Holocaust, it’s the complete opposite. Many innocent families didn’t deserve to experience this horrible pain and sacrifice. Throughout the Holocaust, Jewish families struggled to stay together and survive. The German Nazis forced the Jewish families into being separated into different camps. The genders would be separated once they got off the trains and go into different camps. For example, when Shmuel mentions to Bruno that his mom was separated away from them, “And Mama was taken away from us.” (Boyne 130). “Children, the elderly, and pregnant women” were executed by the Nazis once they arrived to the camps (“Hidden Children” 1).
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Almost all of the population of the Jews were executed by the Nazis, more than a million of innocent people died. The survivors had no family to go to, they were all dead, if by luck you would find a relative. the search of family after being liberated ended nowhere but tragedy. “Time and again, the search for family ended in tragedy”, meaning that there was no hope on ever finding your family ever again (“Hidden Children” 5). “Of the almost 1 million Jewish children in 1939 Poland , only about 5,000 survived”, even the children that survived had no chances of finding their family because they had no interactions or anyway on how to find them (“Hidden Children” 5). For example, Bruno and Shmuel didn’t have any chance of survival in the gas chambers. It was too late when Father tried to rescue Bruno. Bruno experienced the pain of the Jews when it was too late to react, he was a just a child, and so was Shmuel. Not only did Bruno and Shmuel died, also other older men and young teenagers died with them. It all ended in tragedy for both the boys and their families. The chances of ever finding Bruno alive, were also very low for his family. Not only did the Jewish families experience loss of beloved family members, also did the German families. It was both painful and terrible for the families to find out about their beloved ones are long gone. No families would have experienced this if it weren’t for
Almost all of the population of the Jews were executed by the Nazis, more than a million of innocent people died. The survivors had no family to go to, they were all dead, if by luck you would find a relative. the search of family after being liberated ended nowhere but tragedy. “Time and again, the search for family ended in tragedy”, meaning that there was no hope on ever finding your family ever again (“Hidden Children” 5). “Of the almost 1 million Jewish children in 1939 Poland , only about 5,000 survived”, even the children that survived had no chances of finding their family because they had no interactions or anyway on how to find them (“Hidden Children” 5). For example, Bruno and Shmuel didn’t have any chance of survival in the gas chambers. It was too late when Father tried to rescue Bruno. Bruno experienced the pain of the Jews when it was too late to react, he was a just a child, and so was Shmuel. Not only did Bruno and Shmuel died, also other older men and young teenagers died with them. It all ended in tragedy for both the boys and their families. The chances of ever finding Bruno alive, were also very low for his family. Not only did the Jewish families experience loss of beloved family members, also did the German families. It was both painful and terrible for the families to find out about their beloved ones are long gone. No families would have experienced this if it weren’t for