Warsaw Ghetto

A lot of people, at a young age, are told to embrace their differences. However, not too long ago, Jews were being killed, simply for being Jews and having different religious beliefs. In the novel, The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, the story begins with a girl called Hannah. She does not want to reminisce about the Holocaust and in turn, is sent back into the past and is forced to face the horrors of the mass killing of Jews. The novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne, it…

Solomon Radasky. I was born on May 17, 1910. My life has been pretty hard. I live in Warsaw, Poland. Now, the Nazis have overrun the city, forcing us to stay here in the ghetto. I used to live with my mom, my dad, my 3 sisters, and my 2 brothers. Sadly, they were all killed. My mother and older sister were killed at the end of January. My father was killed in April. He was trying to smuggle food into the ghetto. In July, my 2 brothers and 2 other sisters were killed. Now, I just wait and hope…

Adolf Hitler was the mastermind behind the Nazi organization. He built the party from the deprived economy of Germany and turned the Nazis into a world power that will be remembered forever in history. T Once Hitler was released from prison he revived the Nazi party. Hitler was the sole leader of the Nazi party and members swore loyalty to him upon death. They began to become a mass movement from 27,000 members in 1925, the Party grew to 108,000 in 1929(University of south FL.) the SA was the…

Causes of the Holocaust The Holocaust is considered one of the most horrific times faced by the Jewish community in Europe and the world at large. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state- sponsored persecution and murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust took place primarily in Germany and Poland from 1933 to 1945. Factors such as dehumanization, racism, and crowd mentality created the Holocaust. These factors and others caused one of the world's…

Around 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone, some big examples being Warsaw and the Lodz ghettos. The inhabitants of these ghettos were exposed to deplorable conditions, many starved or died of diseases, others were murdered outright by German soldiers. In many cases mass shooting were carried out within the ghetto leaving the victims’ bodies in mass graves. (Burleigh and Wippermann. 100-106). Mass shooting within ghettos became more and more prevalent…

Hitler committed suicide and the rest of the Nazis were arrested. Ben was turning 24 years old in 1945 and these memories would be stuck in his head from then on out. In 1943 the Nazi’s had taken the 49,000 people that had survived in the ghetto to concentration camps where each and every one of them was killed. Ben then later got married and moved to america and built a successful family and then died only a few years…

“Jews in the Ghettos and camps also responded to Nazi oppression with various forms of spiritual resistance” (“The deprivations of ghetto life and the constant fear of Nazi terror made resistance difficult and dangerous but not impossible.”) Even those Jews that had already been caught also were not talking to the Nazis. So…

The holocaust was the mass slaughter of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, and Jehovah Witnesses by a German organization called Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi) from 1941 to 1945. The Nazis believed they were a superior race of people, and anyone they thought was inferior or believed something different should be killed. In the time span of four years the Nazis are believed to have killed 11 million people, 6 million are believed to be Jewish. (Rosenberg 1) Many citizens of…

Holocaust Museum As I walked towards the entrance of the holocaust museum thinking I was prepared to experience the events of such catastrophic event soon I learned that it was definitely not the case. The first thing that I saw was one of the few scrolls to survive the fury of the Nazi fires when they tried to extinguish the beliefs of the Jews. All the pictures on the walls of people living their life right before Adolf Hitler came into power were so happy, displaying people with feelings and…

My dad and my sisters came up to me quickly. They told me to get ready because they heard a German soldier say Warsaw is getting liquidated. I packed my clothes and gathered with my family at the door. We headed towards the trains and got on board. I went in a black cattle car with my dad and my sisters went in a brown cattle car. In the way there it was cold everyone didn’t have anything to protect them from the cold. My dad and I got a frostbite in are hands. I slowly went to sleep due to the…