An Essay On My Oma Ellen Kremmerman

Brave gentile uncle Ludvik comes to pick up the two children into his house. On that afternoon, Hana puts all her treasured things into a large brown suitcase--the one lying in the Tokyo Holocaust Center. But even the life under the protection of uncle Ludvik doesn’t last too long. One year later, in May 1942, Hana and George are ordered to show at a deportation center. At there, on May 16, 1942, with a few candies and a stub of a candle, Hana Brady celebrates her eleventh birthday. Four days later, they are transferred to the prison town Theresienstadt. In this town, Hana and Gorge is Separated into different children’s home. Life in Theresienstadt is very hard. There is never enough room and food, there is always too many people, bugs, rats, and Nazis. But even in such a tragedy condition, there is still something warm. For instances, Hana’s best friend, Ella, always stands for her and cheers her up. The art teacher, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, tells the children thinking of freedom and putting what they imagined down. And Hana, always saves her food to George on a meeting once a week. There once is a huge surprise that Hana and George

Elly Kamm believed that her life was “beautiful” and she lived a very “spoiled” life until she arrived at the ghettos in 1942. As people were being taken away on to the trains, Elly Kamm was about to lose her mother and brother so she volunteered to leave with her family. Her mother told her to go back home to get another pair of shoes for the trip. Her mother and little brother

as a prisoner during the Holocaust. Our teenager named Eliezer grew up in the small community

This project is about a brave woman who survived the Holocaust.Eva Galler was born in january 1,1924 and she died on january 5,2006. She was the oldest of eight children.Her father,Israel Vagel,was the head of the jewish community in their town.Eva’s family were well off compared to the other.Eva,unlike most girls at the time,she went to high school,educated herself and got employed at the local office as a secretary.

I, Helen Katz, was the youngest of eight children. I was born and raised in a religious Jewish family living in a small town in northeastern Hungary. I was always considered the "baby" of my family, I was the focus of everyone's love and affection, although my Hebrew name was Hannah, my family always called me by my nickname, Potyo, which meant "the dear little one”.

As a child, I grew up outside of Berlin, Germany. I lived on a small farm with my father, mother, two older brothers, and younger sister. My family was very close, and we spent most of our time together. We were happy, lived a simple life, and kept to ourselves. Nevertheless, when I was thirteen,

When walking into Ola Appetit Café, it is apparent that the owner and operator, Olafemi Mandley, Miss O or Olah as she prefers to be called, stays rooted in her ancestry. The cozy storefront located in Duquesne on Duquesne Boulevard is full of artwork and literature on two of her favorite things, African history and food. The self-proclaimed “food artist” says she was born with a golden palate and likens her craft to that of a musical prodigy in that she uses food as her creative outlet or “filter.” You can sense the passion in her words when she speaks about her art, a method she calls the Five T’s, “teaching, timing, tools, technique and temperature,” guides her style.

When Irene Safran was only twenty-one years old, her carefree life ended in the face of the Holocaust. Born to two Jewish parents as one of ten children-- four girls and six boys in all-- in Munkachevo, Czechoslovakia around the year 1923, her world changed in early April 1944 when she and her family were transferred to a Jewish ghetto. For the next year, Irene's life was a series of deaths, losses, and humiliations no human should ever have to suffer, culminating, years later, with a triumphant ending. Her story is proof that the human spirit can triumph over all manner of adversity and evil.

I hope that God will bless me with many happy years of life and a wife that I can love and cherish. I have no idea how long that I will live because tomorrow's not promised. Life is a gift. If my couriers do not work out I hope that I can be blessed in some kind of technological position. So if becoming a chef ends working out I will close my restaurant on Sundays to worship God by remembering the

In 1946, Klein moved to Buffalo, New York, with her husband, Kurt Klein, where she began working to raise awareness about the Holocaust, prevent hunger, and promote tolerance. She quickly formed ties with a number of Jewish groups and began lecturing about her experiences as a young woman during the Holocaust. First published in 1957, Klein’s story was the basis for the Academy Award-winning documentary One Survivor Remembers. Klein also went on to write a number of other books, including a collection of her correspondence with her then-fiancé, Kurt Klein, before their marriage in

“I pray you never stand at any crossroads in your own lives, but if you do, if the darkness seems so total, if you think there is no way out, remember, never ever give up. The darker the night, the brighter the dawn, and when it gets really, really dark, this is when one sees the true brilliance of the stars.” These words were spoken by Gerda Klein, a Holocaust survivor. Her story is filled with desperation and an overwhelming sense of hope. Gerda Weissmann was born in Bielsko, Poland. Both of her parents and her older brother died during the Holocaust. She was somehow able to survive “the ghetto, deportation, slave labor camps and a three month death march. She was rescued by an American soldier named Kurt Klein. She ended up marrying him and moving to the United States.

When Stein, a forgotten relative, approached Eliezer and his father on their eight day of living in the concentration camp, Auschwitz, he wanted information on his wife and two kids whom Eliezer's mother had corresponded with in the past. Stein and his family had been separated two years ago and he desperately wanted to know how they were doing. While Eliezer did not have any knowledge about Stein's family, caught between indecision, he decided to lie. He

Ellie Wiesel began his journey as a normal twelve year old Jewish boy who devoted his life to praying and worshiping God. His life was perfect until the Germans decided to take all of that away. The Germans invaded their homes, and took them all to concentration camps. Elie had not realized how cruel people could possibly be, and the drastic measures people will take in order to survive. He saw horrendous things that seemed so unreal. Babies were

In All But My Life, the memoir of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein, the first bystanders the audience

They ran to the forest to hide. They found a farmhouse, but the owner refused to take them in. With no other choice, Irving family decided to hand themselves in to stay with other family members in the ghetto. They were shipped in cattle cars, leading to the concentration camps. Irving was the only one in his family to survive the camps. The were marches to exhaust the prisoners. Throughout March Irving hid under buildings, behind stones, and several other objects to avoid harm. The final march was on April 10th. He thought he wouldn't be able to survive this march, since he was weak from hard work and starvation. His diet only consisted of Black Coffee in the morning, a cup of soup in the afternoon, and a piece of bread at evenings. But the march never happened. That day there was bombing and the soldier never did the march. The next day was a day Irving could never forget. April 11th ,1945. Waking up one morning, in the camp, it was noticeable that there was not one Nazi soldier to be seen. They were all gone. There were two American Soldiers standing at the top of a stone, announcing that the camp has been