Ruth Posner born in 1933 in Warsaw, Poland. She was only 12 years old when World War II began. She lost both her mother and father in a matter of days and was stuck in the middle of the Holocaust all alone. Before her father passed away, he had been making a plan to ensure the safety of his child. He made sure that her aunt whose two children had already been killed by Nazis would be there for her and be by her side until death.
Lucie Aubrac, of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls ' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwitting the Gestapo is Lucie 's harrowing account of her participation in the Resistance: of the months when, though pregnant, she planned and took part in raids to free comrades—including her husband, under Nazi death sentence—from the prisons of Klaus Barbie, the infamous Butcher of Lyon.
Imagine being torn from your home, forced into camps, discriminated against to the extreme, separated from your family, and possibly even killed just because of your religious beliefs. Many of Europe's Jews suffered this treatment. About 5-6 million jews out of 9 million Jews died in the holocaust. Marion Blumenthal-Lazan, was a jew who did not die. She should receive the Holocaust Medal of Honour.
Until the year 1940, Irena Sendler was a regular Polish woman. Sendler was a nurse, a Polish social worker until the Germans forced the Jews in and around Warsaw into a barely standing neighborhood called the Warsaw Ghetto. There was little food, clothes, and medicine in the ghetto so people were dying the streets. When Irena heard about this she wanted to help. The 11 ½ feet brick walls surrounding the ghetto did not stop Irena.
One chapter describes a girl jumping out the window before the gas was released. Mrs. Nomberg- Przytyk was saddened that she had taken parts in helping Germans killing many innocent Jews, in fear of being killed. But she said it wasn’t the fear that controlled her from helping, it was the thought of them not knowing what was coming to them. She said she wanted prisoners to die carefree instead of trying to save themselves from their terrible death, then said that it was fear of her being killed that made her help the Germans. If they knew what was in store for them, they wouldn’t be able to bare the thoughts of getting burned alive.
Even though Eva’s family didn’t get set free, all the other Restimas were set free all thanks to Mutti and her fight against the repulsion and injustice of the Holocaust. Another example of the fight in Eva’s Story is when again, Mutti, saves Eva from going to the gas chambers in Auschwitz by making her put on one of her adult-looking hats and coats as they get out of the transportation train. Although it was challenging, Eva and her family still found a way to fight hate and intolerance by Mutti selling her jewels and Eva putting on her mom’s clothes to save
The Holocaust was a long tragedy that started in 1933 and lasted until 1945. During this time, millions of Jews were taken from their homes by German soldiers and moved to concentration camps. There many of the Jews were separated from their families tortured, and killed. Even though this was a hard time to live through there were some heroes who tried to save the Jews by hiding them or even making them fake passports to get away. One of the heroes was Sofka Skipwith who got fake paperwork from the French to help the Jews escape.
She was arrested at 11 years old. Cecil was one of three girls born in to a polish family who moved to France. They immediately knew when the Nazis had occupied Paris because she was required to wear a star, marking her as a jew. 3:00 am cecil and her family awoken to officers banging on their front door. When they answer the door guns were pointed at them and they were forced to leave their home.
Irena Sendler was born in Warsaw, Poland on February 15, 1910, to parents Janina Krzyżanowsk and Stanisław Krzyżanowski. She was strongly moved by the poverty and suffering she witnessed in the Warsaw Ghetto, and she organized the resistance organization to assist the Jewish population. The underground organization, Zegota, managed to smuggle out 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. 33 yr old Irena Sendler was the driving force.
On January 30th, 1933, one of the most deadliest and dangerous genocides had begun, the Holocaust. Approximately 6 million Jews lost their lives in the concentration camps. A well known survivor from the Holocaust is Elie Wiesel. He was put in a concentration camp at the age of 15 and died recently in 2016. In his memoir, Night, Elie demonstrates a remarkable amount of stamina when faced with seemingly insurmountable obstacles by not giving up his chance to live and caring for others.
Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger, a feminist social reformer, argued that “women cannot be on equal footing with men until they have complete control over their reproductive functions”. Her argument improved our everyday life by providing more information on contraceptives, giving women the power to control their bodies, and changing the role of women and men. Margaret Sanger was determined and dedicated to provide women with information about contraceptives which eventually improved the lives of many women. During the Progressive Era, women had gained a lot more interest in becoming independent by working and improving their education.
They settled in Terre Haute, Indiana (Eva & Miriam Mozes Kor.” The Holocaust, through Their Eyes). In Eva 's book, Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz, she explains the basic need of affection she and her sister had after liberation. She also expresses the great passion and love for the land of Israel and the security it provided for Holocaust survivors (Mozes 105). As adults, Eva and Miriam suffered serious health problems.
Despit the consequences they continued their relationship and were arrested again. August was sentenced to a concentration camp, and Irma was held at the prison Fuhlsbüttel, and gave birth to Irene her second daughter. August was released in 1941 and worked as a foreman, 2 years later he was drafted into the army and went MIA in Croatia.
Mass radio technology is also another technical advancement of World War 1. When the World War 1 started, the US army used the packet set as the communication apparatus. The packet set was a colossal gadget that occupied two wooden chests, and it would be carried by two male donkeys or horses. As the war went on smaller and lighter devices were invented. These devices had clear sound filtration and reception compared to the packet set.
Adolf hitler set up concentration camps to work jew to death or kill them right when they got there by making them “Shower” which was a gas chamber that killed them. At any point the nazi soldiers would accuse the jews for doing something they did not do so they sent them to a camp far worse than the one there were at “Convicted of forgery, aiding the enemy and attempted escape, the sisters were sent to separate prisons. Then in December 1943 Anita was told she was being moved to Auschwitz. She was aware what that meant. “You knew about the gas chambers in Auschwitz long before one was in Auschwitz,” Anita told me.”
