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Carl Lutz Accomplishments

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One of the most horrific things that happened during the 20th century was World War One. World War One was where Hitler, the leader of Germany, decided that Jews were the worst religion and that everybody who was Jewish should be killed. Many Jewish businesses were torn down, Synagogues were destroyed, and it was total madness. With all this madness somebody had to do something about it. While Carl Lutz isn’t as famous as the other Holocaust upstanders, his actions of housing and taking care of many Jews showed his bravery. Carl Lutz’s life was ordinary, but that would soon change. Lutz was born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland on March 30th 1895. Lutz’s mother and father decided to have nine more kids. In 1913, Carl Lutz decided to go to America to study. He went to the state of Illinois to study the school of trade (Carl Lutz). After his studies in America, Lutz joined the Swiss Diplomatic Service. But Lutz didn’t just decide to start helping the Jews, something had to have motivated him. When the Germans started to invade Hungary, Carl Lutz knew he had to do something about …show more content…

When you are trying to save the whole Jewish population, you can’t just do it on your own, you’ll need some help. One of the people who helped him was his own wife (Lutz Carl). Also, there were many other Holocaust upstanders that helped. There were many things that Lutz did to save the Jews. One of the main things he did was he housed the Jews. He also issued thousands of protection letters to the Jews (Lutz Carl). While he was doing these things he did other things as well for the Jews such as providing the essentials, food and water. His wife helped the Jews with any type of medical attention they needed (Carl Lutz). When Lutz was saving the Jews, that was his only focus. He didn’t even care if he got caught as long as he helped the Jews. During this process Lutz saved approximately over sixty two thousand

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The Holocaust was one of the most terrible times in history. During the Holocaust, 6 million Jews were killed, from very young to very old. Stan Wells was a British prisoner of war, captured by Nazi Germany. Along with his buddies, he made correct choices when he chose to hide a 16-year-old girl rather than turn her in to die. I believe that Stan Wells made correct choices during the Holocaust for many reasons.

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He and a group of other Jewish survivors managed to be traded out of a concentration camp in a prisoner exchange. After leaving Dachau, the concentration camp, on a train. He was never actually sent to the prisoner exchange but was lucky enough to be free from concentration camps, as the war was almost over. However, before they were free, they were stopped by a Nazi patrol and overheard that they were going to be shot that night. The next morning, all of the Nazis from that patrol were gone, and it was overheard that it was because the head officer’s girlfriend pleaded for him to leave the Jews alone.

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Example, risking his life and putting everything he worked for in jeopardy. As the Holocaust was a period in time, full of unimaginable terrors. All because he knew it was the right thing to do. Many

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The Holocaust was a time of horror and despair for the Jews, however in some cases they were aided by Nazi supporters and European citizens. However many of the Nazis during this time were unaware of the situation in the death camps and only recognized themselves as anti-Stalin or anti-communism. This made most Nazis full of pride and felt that what they did was right for the world. Some of these Nazis that had learned the truth though and did the right thing by helping those that they could. Examples of those who helped them in their time of need were Georg Duckwitz and Cornelia ten boom both risked their own lives for the good of the others in the war.

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He felt it was important to relay the lessons he learned, so that others will not have to go through the same hardship, in the future. This reflects Moishe the Beadle’s struggles “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel, 6). These monstrous events are the result of not acting because they felt no personal connection. This resulted in not bearing witness, and the massive loss of life during The Holocaust. Making the choice to bear witness needs to be made before it is too late.

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The first man who overcame all the bad thing in the holocaust, is Elie Wiesel. Wiesel, first of all, lied to the Germans to survive, proven in his autobiography Night. For example, he was told “No. You’re eighteen.” (Wiesel, 30) Wiesel obeyed the prisoner and told the Doctor he was eighteen and a farmer, which he was neither.

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