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Why Do We Remember The Holocaust

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Many people don’t remember the Holocaust and its slowly moving away from history. A small amount of Jewish survivors who are alive today, and most of them were affected by the Holocaust camps and the ghettos. There are very few people who remember the Holocaust because it was so long ago. They should remember this because it is very important to learn and live. Some people who remember this time are survivors from the Holocaust. One survivor is Elie Wiesel who became an author when he came out of the Holocaust. Another example is Ida and Adam who are twin siblings from the Holocaust. Gerda Weissmann was another survivor from the Holocaust. Things today like History in school and museum’s were the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel was a survivor who went …show more content…

Gerda was 15 when she was moved into a ghetto called the Bielsko ghetto in 1939 ,September 1. Gerda had an older brother who was 19. But that changed when young men 16 and up had to sign up for the army. Now it was just Gerda and her parents. Then german fighter planes appeared overhead, causing people to flee the city. Her family remanded in the town. In the morning, she heard intense shouting and saw Nazi’s on motorcycles shouting “Heil Hitler”. One day women and men were separated and asked to be put in lines. Gerda was in the line with her mother and a guard asked her how old she was and she said, “18”. Then she was put in a truck a shouting at her mother to ask where she was going and her mother said she didn’t know. Gerda jumped out of the truck but a SS officer caught her and said to her that she was too young to die. Then she knew that her mother was going to die. After Gerda being moved into the ghetto she was deported in 1942 to work in a factory in Bolkenhain, Silesia. Besides the of all the labor and hunger there was caring caring between the inmates. A German supervisor, Mrs. Kugler, saved Gerda’s life because when Gerda got sick and the SS men had to inspected her to see if she should continue working or die. Mrs. Kugler helped her pass the Inspection by just letting her work and then rest again. She was moved to a camp called Marzdorf and spent three years there. It …show more content…

The skokie march was important in Illinois because when after the Holocaust was over some of the survivors were still alive but had no homes. So America helped the survivors by letting them have it easy until they can pay for their house, family, food, and job. So most of them went to Skokie Illinois to live in. When Neo Nazi’s came around the corner the Jews had to do something about because they weren't going to let the holocaust happen again with a new generation. In Skokie there were Neo Nazi’s going around the town with signs saying put Jews in gas chambers and let them die. When the Jews saw this they started to scream and shout at the Neo Nazi’s telling them to stop. But they didn’t so the Jews in the town started a March and later the Neo Nazi’s stop because of what the government noticed and government's new rule was to them. In 1977 lots of Jew were feeling scared because at that time they didn’t know what to do. They didn’t want it to happen again but they get scared. The Skokie March affected the Jews to help others in the

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