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Why Did Trude Silman Survive The Holocaust

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The holocaust was a very sad point in all of history. And one of the best things to ever happen to germany. Trude Silman was one of the “lucky” people to survive the holocaust. Very few people survived the holocaust. The holocaust started off when Adolf Hitler was put into the office for germany. He started off slow by making the jews wear yellow stars and took away some of their privileges. Then he started to destroy all of their shops and homes, that night was called “The night of broken glass.”(Rice 42) Then Adolf Hitler forced 17,000-18,000 polish jews out of Poland and dumped them at the border, they were sent in railway cars and were not treated very nicely. They were treated like caged animals and were not fed at all, nearly all of …show more content…

Trude Silman was a little girl when all of this started to happen. She has a lot of videos and documentaries of her life and what had happened to her and how she survived. I am going to sum up all of the documentaries and videos for you in this “essay.” Trude Silman grew up in Bratislava and lived in a happy middle class family and had 3 sisters and 2 brothers. Her sisters sadly died and so did her two brothers. Her parents died on the train to the concentration camp, and saved Trudes life, by taking bullets for her and her siblings. She didn’t say much about her holocaust experience but what she did say was absolutely outstanding. She has killed one of the nazi guards there at the concentration camp. She killed him by taking him by surprise and snapping his neck and no one saw her do this. She said that “she regrets her decision and wishes that she didn’t do anything to harm him but she saw an opportunity and took it. Now after the holocaust she is living in the UK with her 9 cats and 3 dogs. Her husband died of a heart attack while he was sitting in his chair at her house. She also has 4 children and 6 grandchildren. They all live in the US and have donated thousands to help all jews across the

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