Someone Named Eva Essay

Her heart was pumping as she approached the window. Right before Eva jumped her father said, “I know you will stay alive. You have the Belzer Rebbe's blessing.” When Eva got up to find her sister and brother dead she took off her yellow star necklace and promised herself to never wear it again.Eva knew she had to go on, so she ran back to Oleszyce. Eva found a family friend who hid her for a few days but soon made her leave because it was too dangerous. Eva then found another family who housed her for one night. Eva’s final plan was to go to a nearby train station. She paid for a ticket to Krakow with the money one of the families gave her. In Cracow boys and girls were caught and sent to work in Germany. Luckily they didn't know Eva was Jewish, so she went along with the kids. All the kids were inspected by doctors and, that’s when Eva came up with a Polish name, Katarzyna

In the year 1941, Lithuania was invaded and many Jewish families fled from Lithuania. Margarets family didn't leave because her brother Alik was at a children's holiday camp. Margaret was never sent to a camp, she lived in the ghetto. Margaret's description of the ghetto years as “dreadful”. The people were forced to do hard labour and were deprived of their food.

However he tells us the horrors of living there as it was hard to sleep knowing the gestapo could barge in at any given moment. Soon the Nazis started to have raids specially for Jews. Some people would question him on why his family didn’t go in hiding, his response was because you needed a Christian to help you, a Christian who would risk their life for yours. Soon they were taken to a transit camp and waited for their certain death to approach. Now on to Ina Polak, it all started when she was sixteen years old. Germany had just invaded Poland. However she was spending a summer in England around the time. She didn’t plan on having to leave early, but her father called urging her to come home immediately. Her family was so unaware of the current situation. That by may she was sent back to England, they thought since Holland stayed out of world war one then they definitely could have evaded this one. When it did break out her father was more important to the Nazis alive he was a diamond industrializer. But they were sent to Bergen-Belsen shortly after, they did manage to escape. Her family bought citizenship in El Salvador, Germany wasn’t at war with them at the time. But on their way the Germans had started getting worried because the allies were closing in. So they were put on a train to an unknown destination. They stopped at the Elbe river they

When Eva and her sister were six years old the village they had known was invaded by a Hungarian Nazi armed guard and from this point on they experienced horrific things that only little would survive. The Mozes family was the only Jewish family in the village, and by 1944 the family

When Hitler first came the people in her town didn't believe that he would invade them. When he did, they were all shocked. The Jews were then treated like trash. Eva says she will always remember one day and that is because the Nazis made them walk all the way to the town square. Once they made it, there was a fire in the middle of the ground.

“Inge Auerbacher was born December 31, 1934, in Kippenheim, Germany. Her parents were Berthold and Regena Auerbacher” (Children During the Holocaust). “Her father was a textile merchant and was also a German soldier during WWI” (Inge Auerbacher). Her life was quite peaceful until one night, November 9, 1938, when every single window in her house was broken. Her Mother, Grandmother, and herself all had to hide in their backyard, but her Father and Grandfather got brought to Dachau Concentration Camp. Once they got released, Inge’s family then moved in with their grandparents. Sadly, in 1942, there would be no way to avoid

In the year 1942, a young Helen Sternlicht was doing her daily tasks in the Plaszow labor camp when Commandant Amon Goeth approached her and selected her to be one of his housemaids. For 2 years her and another maid, named Helena Hirsch, shared a room

Later that week Elli and her mother marched to another concentration camp in Dunaszerdahely until they had further orders. They stay there until they go to Auschwitz in Auschwitz they work and are paid by getting fed

In the book Escape Children of the Holocaust, author Allan Zullo highlights the struggles of three innocent Jewish children, Hanci Hollander, Halina Litman and Gideon Frieder. All three children were born in different countries affected by the Holocaust; Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. If you did not know, the Holocaust was a gruesome time in the world’s history. There were concentration camps for Jews. All because of one Austrian man, Adolf Hitler, who hated the Jews so much he did not want one Jew left standing. Consequently, he made the Nazi Germans hunt, enslave and kill the Jews.

Ibi's father was taken from the family first, then Ibi and her older sister Judith were led one way, and their mother and two younger sisters went in a different direction. Ibi later discovered that her mother and sisters had been taken immediately to the gas chambers and killed.” Ibi and her sister were to a different part of camp where there was barely any food and every day they had to stand for many hours while the guards counted the people. After three months Ibi and Judith were taken out of Auschwitz to work in a slave labor camp Germany. There they became knowledgeable of the war and how it was going badly for Germany.

Each of these histories reveal a story of suffering that is endured by both Gentile and Jew, but also a story of humanity and salvation. In Five Chimneys: A woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz, Olga Lengyel tells of her family assisting other Jews fleeing the Nazi military. Later, after her own ordeals in Auschwitz, she was saved by citizens in a small Polish village. An essay written by Vera Laska is included in Women and the Holocaust: Different Voices, which is an anthology of essays about women in the Holocaust. In addition to the many stories of survivors and rescuers, I am using several scholarly articles

I am Eva Rapaport . I was the only child . I was born to non-religious Jewish parents . I was born on October 27th , 1929 . My father was a journalist and my mom loved taking trips . I have a cousin that is two years older than me that I loved spending time with . FOUR MONTHS LATER , my dad was harassed by the Gestapo or the secret state police , that turned out bad . I was always getting called bad names by my best-friends because I was Jewish and I was different from them . My friends never wanted to be by me and they never wanted to talk to me unless they was criticizing me . They told people they couldn’t be around me .My parents soon said we had to escape , so , we eventually evacuated by trains . During my third grade year , there were

In the book Surviving the Angel of Death, the narrator Eva tells what she experienced during World War I. She was Jewish, so she was sent to a concentration camp. She was also a twin, and her twin sister Miriam was ten years old when they arrived at Auschwitz. Since they were twins, they were separated from the rest of their family and sent to Dr. Menegle. He performed multiple experiments on them throughout their time at Auschwitz.

“We’ll be fine honey… don't give up we'll see eachother again I promise”, my mother said as they pulled us apart into different rooms. Her voice was shaken, we had been been sent to Auschwitz and during the trip here she cried and pleaded the entire time. As if they would suddenly have sympathy for us… during our entire time here there was not one commander that at least seemed to have any sympathy or remorse for us… they actually seemed to be enjoying our suffering. My mother was gone now and I, along with a few other dozen of us were escorted to another room. We had just been examined by the doctors and the people who I was with were mainly young girls. Many with their mothers… they all looked at me as if I was some lost puppy. I could

Nobody knows how many babies were born in Auschwitz overall. “The Nazis didn't bother to record the existence of the babies before killing most of them” (Forward 2). “One of the main reasons some of these children survived was because their mothers weren't forced to join the Death March” ( Forward