Sometimes, even when the world seems like it is on the opposite side of what someone stands for, people need to fight. During the Holocaust, Germans mass-discriminated against Jews. The Jews were looked down upon. On the streets, they were pictured in anti-jew propaganda, and in the concentration camps, they were beaten, killed, and separated from their families. Due to this, they had no choice but to preserve; if they gave up, it was equivalent to accepting death. Survivors of the Holocaust had to persevere in their own separate ways to escape death and to freedom. For example, Magda Herzberger is a Holocaust survivor. It was 1944 and she was 18 when she was taken away from her home. When she was in the concentration camps, she served as a “corpse gatherer.” One source of strength for Magda that …show more content…
In her silent moments in the camp as she prayed, she knew in her heart that God could help her make it out alive” (Ferraresi 4). Therefore, praying to God brought Madga hope and helped her fight through the urge to give up. Her heart still had faith in God, and she trusted him to help her. Her faith in God was the strength that helped her escape death. Elie Wiesel was a fifteen-year-old boy when he went through the Holocaust. He was imprisoned in multiple Nazi-German concentration camps. Like many of the other Jewish people, he had been separated from his family when he arrived at a concentration camp. The only family that was still left with him was his father. He vowed to himself that he would never leave the side of his father. In 1945, his camp was liberated. Later on, he wrote a book on his experiences during the Holocaust, and it's called Night. In the book, he describes what he went through during the Holocaust, like being transferred to different concentration camps and watching other people around him