5 Victims of the Holocaust Kaj Munk - Born on January 13th, 1898, Kaj Munk was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor. Although he is well known for these roles, he is mostly remembered for being a victim of the holocaust. Munk was actually a fan and admirer of Hitler, before he went on his campaign to exterminate the jews. This changed his opinion on the powerful leader, which caused him to write plays about how terrible the Nazi’s were. He was arrested and murdered by the Gestapo, the secret police of the Nazi’s.
Meyer Hack was born and raised in Ciechanow, Poland. In 1942, he was deported, like many others, to Auschwitz with his family. Upon arrival, his mother and sisters were killed. He and his brother were chosen for slave labor. They were assigned to pull laundry carts.
There are many ways The Boy on the Wooden Box relates to the article “A Brief Holocaust Summary.” It was produced by Maya Productions. For those who may not fully understand what the Holocaust was about, the article “A Brief Holocaust Summary” can give the person a clue of wha t was really happened. The Holocaust is generally thought of as the genocide of roughly 6 million Jewish people during World War II.”
The quote states that Nicholas Winton was born in England as German Jewish and last name as Wertheimer, but later he was baptised and changed their last name. Nicholas was oldest between his siblings. In the article it states, “He was the oldest of three children whose parents, Rudolf and Barbara Wertheimer, were German Jews who later converted to
Irena Sendler was a social worker from Poland during the Holocaust. She is famous for her attempts to save Jewish children from the Ghetto at Warsaw. In the beginning of her life, during the Holocaust, Sendler began rescuing Jewish children when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. Since she had admission to Warsaw Ghetto as a Poland social worker, she was able to transport Jewish children from the concentration camps they were held. As a social worker, she assisted people that needed help with medicine, clothing, and other essentials.
June 11, 1941, a new shipment of Jews arrived in Auschwitz today from Minsk Mazowiecki, a ghetto in Poland. Among the people who arrived was 13 year old Jakob Frenkiel and his brother Chaim. All who arrive in Auschwitz have to give the officers everything that was on them at that time. Frenkiel shares with reporters about his valuable possession he had to give away. “I had with me the locket my parents had given me for my birthday with their pictures in it.
In 1938 Nicholas Winton grew concerned over the growing violence of Jews in a Czechoslovakian refugee camp. Since Winton knew that Britain had been already attempting to save Jewish children in an operation called Kindertransport from Austria and Germany, he needed to come up with a way to save the children in Czechoslovakia. Winton couldn't have worked alone. “As word of his efforts spread, thousands of parents lined up to implore Winton to save their children,” (“Saving the Children” 1).Winton got permits to transport the children into foster homes where they would travel on ships across the North Sea and trains from Prague to the Netherlands which would eventually let the kids be taken in by parents. Winton made sure that each children
Historians have been debating how the spirit triumphed during the Holocaust for years. The spirit triumphed through the Holocaust through many, many distractions, nature, and the support and love of family and friends. The Nazis had killed, and enslaved so many Jewish people in concentration camps. But, the Nazis couldn’t take their spirit from them.
Unspoken Victims of The Holocaust Of the countless victims of Adolf Hitler’s brutal genocide none were persecuted more than the Jews, however, among the large death toll many others were mercilessly punished for their race, beliefs, or occupation. A major target for Hitler’s “Final Solution” was the mentally and physically disabled. In their article on the mentally and physically handicapped the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote “The Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases, proclaimed July 14, 1933, forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness (schizophrenia and manic depression), retardation (congenital feeble-mindedness), physical deformity,
Elie Wiesel The holocaust, killed more than 6 million Jewish people just for being Jewish. Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky few to survive the holocaust. I’m going to explain what His life was like as a child, what his life was like as he was in the death camps, and what his life was like after the war was over and he was free again. Elie Wiesel became famous for writing about his experiences in the death camps.
Over the course of World War Two, over six million Jewish people were murdered. Killing factories known as concentration camps were spread throughout Europe, and worked tirelessly to exterminate Jews. The deadliest of all was known as Auschwitz, and it is where a fifteen year old Elie Wiesel was taken in 1944. He remained in concentration camps until liberation in 1945. By the end of World War Two, Wiesel had lost his faith in God and humanity after experiencing unspeakable horrors, such as the execution of children and the death of his father.
The annex was a safe place to be in during the holocaust. Jews could no longer be in the streets or go out to get groceries, they had to tell people who were legal in germany to go buy stuff for them. You cannot take a lot of stuff to the annex because you do not have enough space to put everything because their are going to be a lot of people in such a tight space. If you do bring a lot of stuff where are you going to put them. The small amount of stuff that I would bring i would keep it right by my bed and not let anyone touch it.
Survivors of the Holocaust After the war against the Nazis, there were very few survivors left. For the survivors returning to life to when it was before the war was basically impossible. They tried returning home but that was dangerous also, after the war, anti-Jewish riots broke out in a lot of polish cites. Although the survivors were able to build new homes in their adopted countries. The Jewish communities had no longer existed in much part of Europe anymore.
Choices play a critical role not only in people’s daily lives, but in shaping history as well. The stronger those choices are, the greater impact they have on society. During the Holocaust, when the Germans considered themselves racially superior to the Jews and caused millions of innocent deaths, ordinary European citizens and perpetrators shaped history through their actions and inaction. While some stayed quiet, many brave individuals, called upstanders, decided to rescue Jews and other victims of persecution, based on their past experiences and from the goodness of their heart. These upstanders chose to rescue and assist a race marked for death, while knowing full well the harsh penalties for doing so.
Hey everyone read this so you can get a little bit smarter! This is going to talk about the victim side of child soldiers and if you don’t know what victim means then look it up, I had to. Thousands of children are being forced or had no choice, but to join the army. Should child soldiers be given amnesty, yes because they are being kidnapped and force or even dragged into joining the army. These child soldiers can’t really think at all and they just do what they are told without talking back.
