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Inge Auerbacher: A Survivor Of The Holocaust

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The Holocaust is one of the darkest times in history. The Holocaust was started by Hitler, defining people if they were Jewish, part Jewish, or Aryan. Little did these people know that it would get a lot worse for Jewish people after a few years. In a few years innocent people were being sent to gas chambers just for being Jewish. “There is not one day I don’t think about it,” says Inge. (“Heard on campus Inge Auerbacher”) Inge Auerbacher is one of few Jewish children to survive the Holocaust. She was born in a german village called Kippenheim. She still remembers Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass. Her grandparents had come to visit but they soon had to hide from the angry mod. She remembers feeling scared in her backyard shed. …show more content…

Inge was sent to Terezin concentration camp along with many others. She arrived holding her doll Marlene because she was so scared. Inge was scared there, and was rarely feed, and struggled not to get sick. She was traumatized as she saw her friends sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. Many of her family members were sent to Poland and were never heard of again. Inge was one out of 15,000 children in Terezin. She was among the one percent that survived. (“Inge Auerbacher”) Inge still had challenges that stuck with her after the Holocaust. She and her parents were released from Terezin after three miserable years. Fortunately, both of her parents survived and her family emigrated to the United States in 1946. After the Holocaust, at the concentration camp she developed a dangerous disease from malnutrition, which put her far behind in school. (“Inge Auerbacher”) Although she missed many days of school while she was sick she graduated from Bushwick high school with honors. After that, she went to college and got a degree in chemistry. Inge worked as a chemist for 38 years before she retired.(“Inge Auerbacher”)
Learning about the Holocaust has made me release how fortunate I am to have all the freedoms I have. This project has also made me think about how we need to keep someone like Hitler from ever coming into power again. Not just in our country but in every country in the

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