Holocaust Persuasive Speech

Imagine yourself as a Jewish teenager living in Germany and one day a Nazi soldier knocks on your door. Three days later you and your family walk into the town square and you are separated from your parents and grandparents. The only people left in your life are your two younger sisters. However, you are separated from your sisters two months later and don’t know if they will live or die. You keep waiting for the war to end, but it keeps going. More bombings, more deaths, more people sent to Auschwitz and every day feels like a year. Months and months drag on and you feel like you are hardly clinging to life. The next day the Nazi soldiers tell you that you are being transported to Auschwitz because you are so sick. You say farewell to life and give up on the dream of being saved. But, finally your prayers have been answered. American soldiers storm into your ghetto and start to shoot the Nazi soldiers. Someone tells you to run and you don’t waste a second. You run as fast as your frail, starved body can take you. You round a corner and see soldiers summoning prisoners into a truck and they tell you to get in. You do, and …show more content…
Many people who were saved would have eventually been killed, but survived because of the tireless efforts of people who organized rescue missions, hid people in their houses, etc. When discussing rescue efforts, it is important to think about the religions of people who helped, organizations established for the execution of rescue efforts, and locations of rescue missions and smuggling. Rescue during the Holocaust had a wide range of phenotypes, or how they were displayed. “People such as laborers, teachers, and factory owners fooled the Gestapo and concealed and protected Jews” (Hogan 432). Despite the fact that many people did not agree with the religious beliefs of Jews, they came together to rescue those in danger of Nazi