The Holocaust: The Night Of Broken Glass

The article, “The Girl Who Lived Forever”, by Kristen Lewis, describes the hardships of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, and her family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Anne Frank lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. She and her family managed to survive for 2 long years in hiding, by living in a secret annex behind her father’s pectin factory. In August of 1944, the SS captured Anne and the others hiding in the annex. All but Otto Frank, Anne’s father, perished in the Nazi concentration camps. Though they lived through unspeakable and unimaginable challenges, Anne, her family and their friends showed a tremendous amount of courage trying to defy Hitler and his evil regime.

She was often scared and frightened. While she was in the camp, she came down with a deadly sickness and had to fight for her life. “On May 8, 1945 Inge was set free by the Soviet Army” (Inge Auerbacher). Her and her family had spent nearly 3 years in the camp. After they were set free, her family immigrated to America in May, 1946. Even after she came to America she still had a life threatening sickness which she overcame and defied the odds.

Stefania Podgorska was born in 1923. She grew up in a small village in Poland, was born into a catholic family, and was the third youngest of nine. At the age of fourteen, she then moved to Przemysl for work and met a Jewish man named Joe who later became her husband. When the war first started Joe and his brothers were sent to the ghetto but because Stefania wasn't a Jew she was able to stay in town and keep her apartment. Later Podgorska heard that the SS was going to empty the ghetto soon. She knew she had to do something in order to save any Jews she possibly can. Although it wasn't easy, she moved to a bigger apartment and hid thirteen Jews in her attic for about two winters.

Three days in they reached a concentration camp in Auschwitz- Buchenwald. In result, Magdas beloved parents got sent to a gas chamber to parish (Each). The gas chamber ended the lives of more than 70,000 Jews. (Wigoder 151). Magda was chosen to work at a bomb factory in Germany.

Hanci Hollander was 14 years old when she got to her concentration camp with her mother and sister. It was a very long hard

Have you ever wondered what the life of a Holocaust survivor was like? Would you hide and hope to be found by the good people(Allied Forces) before Germany and its allies?(main menu) How would you feel if your family all died except for you, but for you not to know if a family member is still alive? That was how Magda Brown felt when she got taken away, and her whole family got gassed, except her brother, but she(at the time) didn’t know if her brother was still alive!(main menu)

The two siblings were standing outside of Kinderheim L410, an old prison, with hundreds of other Jewish children (Levine 64). They would stay here with little food, space, and knowledge of what was in their years to come. One day, Hana and her brother received a letter stating he was being deported to a labor camp. She was headed to Auschwitz.

She says that many ask why didn’t you fight back, or why did you go like sheep to be slaughtered without any resistance? The questions made her rethink her experience. In her 70’s she began to write about her imprisonment, and after the times of 9/11 it is crucial that she felt she told her story. If she shared her experiences, this will be one more convincing piece of evidence against the possibility of interment camps in the United States every happening again.

On September 15 1935, Hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws, most Germans if not all already agreed with everything Hitler has been saying. The Nuremberg Laws gave these Germans an excuse to do hurtful things towards Jews and not be looked down on. Some might've even been praised.

The anti Jewish sentiment was already strong in many parts of Germany and whilst anti-Semitism might not have been in the forefront of everyone’s mind, it was already a conscious part of everyday life. And in early 1935, a second wave of anti-Jewish agitation followed, once again , following pressure from within the lower party activists within the SA and Hitler Youth. This renewed violence, whilst sanctioned by Hitler, once again proved relatively unpopular amongst the German people and Hitler recognised the need to draw this damaging campaign to a swift conclusion. But at the same time, Hitler did not wish to lose face with his party activists, which led to the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935.

Kristallnacht was a night of destruction and terror for all German Jews. The Night of Broken Glass got its name from the shattering of windows of Jewish businesses by the instructions of Heydrich. Many aspects of Jewish lives were tested on Kristallnacht.

The Holocaust, a mass genocide of 600 Jews and 500 additional "undesiables". It happened during World War II (WWII) in Europe. It began with Austrian born Adolf Hitler. He was a World War I (WWI) veteran but faught for Germany. At the end of WWI he was in the hospital and by the time he recovered, Germany had lost the war. Enraged, he attempted to rebel against the German government yet ended up faiilng miserbaly. because of this he was sentanced to five years in prison. While in jail her wrote a book entitled Mein Kapmf. This was an outline of his plan for builing a "better" Germany. Due to this he only served roughly nine months of his original sentance. Once released from prison he became involved in poltics and rose through the ranks.

Beginning in March 1942, a wave of mass murder swept across Europe. During the next 11 months of 9 million Jews who lived in Europe before the Holocaust, an estimated ⅔ was murdered. An estimated 1 million children endured the Holocaust and only 5,000 survived. Children were targeted especially during the holocaust because they could grow up and be a new generation of the Jews. Although not many survived, the ones that did had an incredible story to be told, of how the Holocaust affected and changed their lives. Holocaust Survivor Jeannine Burk was shaped and changed by having to play Hide-and-seek throughout her entire life from the Nazis and suffering as also a lot of pain through Hitler’s domination.

What is it? “Holocaust”. I’ll tell you what it isn’t. It is not a place. It is not a person. It is an event. A bad one. One that no Semite (Jews and Arabs) wants to converse about. One so bad, textbooks talk as little of it as possible. In other words, the Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution of more than six(6) million Jews by the Nazi Regime and her allies.1 The Nazis were lead by a vicious dictator. His name forever known to history as an abomination. Adolf Hitler.

The Nuremberg Laws, created September 15, 1935, were rooted in the idea of Nazi eugenics; to biologically “improve” the population into achieving the Master race that Hitler envisioned. These laws would ensure that any mixing of German and Jewish blood would cease and