Why Did Jewish People Survive In Ww2

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Jewish people had a hard time going through World war II, since they were the reason it all started, 1 man managed to get enough power to ruin over 10 millions lives, he either killed them, or tortured them so they would be close to death. But we are not talking about Hitler, we are talking about rescuers of World war II, Friends helping Jews, Jews helping Jews, and families helping Jews. All of these are going to have examples, people who left a mark on this world during World War II.

Jews helping Jews probably makes you think that Jews are just helping each other survive in the camp, but there are quite a lot of Jews who actually helped people escape the camps, let’s take Sheina Berelovich as an example, Sheina had a daughter named Maya,
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Frieda Adam is a prime example of helping a friend hide and escape, Frieda had a Jewish friend named Erna Puterman, they became good friends before the war started, but once the war started, Frieda let Erna stay at her house and hide out from the German officers so she didn’t have to go to the ghetto’s, Frieda had to send Erna to her grandma’s house because it was becoming too dangerous because the neighbors started to get suspicious and Frieda’s husband was a German Soldier, once Frieda’s husband figured it out, he blackmailed Frieda, after all of this, Frieda still did not give up on helping her friend, Erna. Another story is about Joanna and Jadwiga, Joanna was Jewish, but Jadwiga was not, they both became friends before the war started, once it started Joanna had to go into hiding, so Jadwiga let her hide at her house so she wouldn’t be at a camp, but it became too dangerous for her to stay because of neighbors, so she moved her to a relative's house for the time being, but then it became too dangerous for her to even stay there, so Jadwiga had no choice but the forge Joanna’s name so she wouldn’t be in danger, during the rest of the war, Joanna became a French teacher. As it shows, friends can be a reliable person during the war, to either shelter you, help you escape, and even feed

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