The Holocaust

known for being heroes in a dangerous period of history. Sir Nicholas Winton is a man who is known for being the savior of now thousands of lives across the world. Very little is known about Nicholas Winton’s life before his involvement in the Holocaust. He was actually born under the name Nicholas Wertheimer to his parents, Rudolf and Barbara, who were of a German-Jewish descent. (Howard) It was not until 1938, when World War II was starting to be imminent,…

the media. Peter Eisenman recently stated in an article that, "I believe that my Holocaust memorial in Berlin could no longer be built today” (“Berlin Holocaust Memorial Wouldn’t Be Built Today, Says Peter Eisenman” 2016). The statement came as a result of the current president and today’s current xenophobic environment. No longer could something be created and well appreciated to honor the lives lost during the Holocaust, it would honor one while offending and enraging another. The memorial…

I am Mrs. Schachter, me and many other Jewish families were forced out of our homes by Hungarian police into a cattle car. We were put into a cattle car because we were being taken to a prison camp as an order by Adolf Hitler. While on the cattle car on the third night I saw a fire. I told everybody what I saw in horror. Some people pressed against the bar of the window to see if they could see fire anywhere, but there was nothing to see for them. What happened was someone placed a damp rag on…

In Germany there were more than 40,000 concentration camps during World War II. The camps were controlled by the Nazis. The nazis were cruel men and they killed most of the Jewish people. If the Jews didn't get killed, then they were being tortured. And that was very common and frequent in the concentration camps. Over 11 million people got killed each year throughout the war. Most of them were children, especially from illnesses and starvation. Most children in the age of 5 were trained to…

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…

Medical Experiments during the Holocaust Have you ever wondered about the Medical Experiments on the Jews during the Holocaust? The Medical Experiments were very cruel towards the Jews, the experiments had a great impact on the Jews, and the Nazis gathered very valuable information by doing the medical experiments on the Jews. The Nazis performed many horrifying medical experiments on the Jews during the Holocaust. Some of the experiments they did on the Jews were freezing, high altitude,…

story. Anne and Krystyna were able to use vital survival skills during the tragic and horrific events of the Holocaust. To begin with, Anne was a young girl who was forced to hide in an attic for over two years before being caught! The diary of Anne Frank was a journal written by Anne Frank who went to extreme measures to try and to survive…

American doctor in the city at the time described it as “modern Dante’s Inferno, written in huge letters with blood and rape” (Madison 16). A short time later Jewish men, women and children were being rounded up and murdered by the thousands. The Holocaust was an event of inconceivable evil, people deemed subhuman were worked to death, starved or gassed immediately. Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier was a French prisoner, she gave chilling testimony about things that transpired at Auschwitz.…

The Holocaust is looked at as the most horrific genocide and mass murder in history, wiping out over 6,000,000 people between the 1933 and 1945. Most of them were Jews. But, while studying, many people believed that the Jews did not do anything to defy Nazi power. They ask the question, what did the Jews do in order to survive the Holocaust? The Jews did not necessarily physically fight the Nazis because of their brutal force. Although, they did many other things, like send their children to…

Bruno’s Unfortunate Nativity in the Holocaust Bang! Bang! Bang! That was the sound of Jews being killed by Nazis, German soldiers under the control of Adolf Hitler. He was the supposedly “president” of Germany at the time who had a belief of killing others that were “different” than him, mainly Jews. Jews would have to hide in towns, so they wouldn’t be found and sent to concentration camps. That didn’t work for at least 60% of them. These people were tortured and killed at concentration…