During the Holocaust, most of the Jewish children got their privileges revoked. One of the privileges was they were no longer allowed to attend school. Jewish people heard that the Nazis were going around taking Jews from their homes for deportation. At first when the Nazis took the children out of the school and put them on a train to somewhere, their parents thought they would come back, but they did not. Jewish people started to get word of the concentration camps and started to ask other non-Jews to hide them. Some Jews even got a fake photo ID card so the Nazis would not take them. In the camps, the women who had children were separated from those who could work, and were exterminated right away. However, some children did survive this war. Liane Reif and Sabina Szwarc have some similarities, but two contrasting stories of how they survived the Holocaust. Liane Reif and Sabina Szwarc were both born into Jewish families. They both lived in neighborhoods where there was not a lot of Jews. Liane Reif and Sabina Szwarc both tried to escape the war, but …show more content…
Her father was a businessman and her mother was a teacher. Sabine went to public school and then a Jewish secondary school. She was about sixteen years old when Germany invaded Poland. Shortly after, her father had to give up his business and she had to quit school. The Szwarc’s were then forced into a ghetto where they shared an apartment. The ghetto was liquidated in 1942. Sabina’s friends got her sister and herself fake Polish ID cards and as the last roundup came the two sisters escaped and hid in Sabina’s friend’s home. Sabina then did a labor assignment where an officer questioned her to actually be a Jew, but Sabina ignored it. “Sabina was liberated in Regensburg, Germany, by American troops on April 27, 1945” (Children - Sabina Szwarc). In 1950, Sabina emigrated o the United States to pursue her career as an