The city quickly fell under the control of the SS, who were looking specifically for the Jewish civilians. They came to our workshop and shot our patriarch, my father. The remaining thirteen of us were moved into a prisoner of war camp, where we would be separated. Us six boy were decided to build another camp with some other Jewish teens from the city. This camp was brutal as it pushed and beaten us.
In the memoir, The Boy on the Wooden Box; How the Impossible Became Possible… on Schindler’s List, by Leon Leyson, follows his story as a little boy and how his move into the big city, Krakow, turned for the worse. Leon shares his troubles and experiences during World War II, also known as The Holocaust. Throughout the book, Leon describes the entertainment that the Jews continued during their time in the ghetto. He also talks about what he did in order to see his family safe. Leon also informs us about the admiration of Oskar Schindler, a nazi.
In the book “Jacob’s Rescue”, a true story written by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin, a Jewish boy by the name of Jacob has a wonderful, happy, joyful life, a life that is taken from him, and his family, he lives in a ghetto. What remains of his family , him, his aunt, and his grandmother, don’t have enough food, his two remaining brothers were already smuggled out of the ghetto into hiding. Just as he was about to be. His aunt sneaks him out of the ghetto to a man named Alex Roslan, who takes him into the city of Warsaw, Poland where he introduces them to his family, the Roslans.
They forced them into a ghetto, not letting anyone in or out, but Oskar's workers got blue stickers allowing them to pass through the gates. Schindler was able to add a munitions section to make antitank shells so that his factory would be "essential" to the war effort(US Holocaust Memorial Museum). In early 1943, the Jews were forcibly removed from the ghetto and relocated to Plaszow. Amon Goeth, the camp's overseeing officer, tried to move all factory jobs into the camp, but Schindler resisted.
Those who could work survived while those who were not able to work died in the concentration
Schindler’s List displays this by showing how the Jews were sent to forced labour camps such as the Plaszow. When they arrived to these labour and concentration camps, they were separated by gender as told “men to the left, women to the right”, this separated families causing more effective discomfort to the Jews. In the labour camps, many Jews were shot often resulting in death because they were not working to the satisfaction of the Nazis or SS officers who were in charge of that labour camp. If any Jews were seen as unhealthy they were sent to death camps. During this stage of the holocaust many Jews were
Schindler was positioned to work at Plaszow, a labor camp established in Krakow in 1942. Amon Goeth was the commandant of Plaszow which meant life there was very grim and awful. As time went on, Schindler took Goeth’s place as Hauptsturmführer, chief platoon leader, which made life for the Jews much easier. Although Schindler was very much capable of leaving the Jews and living a life as a rich man, he did the opposite (www.oskarschindler.com). Schindler was very concerned for these Jews.
The essential workers, about two-thousand Jews, were sent to Płaszów concentration camp. Most of non-essential workers were killed or sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where even more were killed. After the liquidation the Nazi’s came back in the night with search dogs to find all of the Jews that were hiding to kill
After they didn’t believe it, a few days later the Nazi’s were there and put them on a train the camp. They were capture because they weren’t real Jews. They would work day
Essential to overcoming adversity is the ability to cause change in yourself and others. In the book, Boy on the Wooden Box, by Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B.Leyson, Leon has to learn that he can’t just wait for his problems to go away and not do anything, to overcome his adversity he needs to work hard, not lose hope, and stay determined. This helps him to survive the Nazi oppression because he never gave up so he kept striving forward. Ultimately, Harran and Leyson show us that hope, hard work, and determination can give you the strength to accomplish your goals.. Being scared and weak can help you understand to not take life for granted.
Leon survived some of the worst experiences. He showed grit and determination throughout the story. Leon lived in Narekwa and then moved to Krakow in hopes of a better life. The Nazis then took over and he goes to a concentration camp. Leon showed that he could almost handle anything they could throw at him.
They then handed over their valuables. After all of this, the Ukrainian guards chased the prisoners to the gas chambers. Some Jewish men were kept alive to be laborers. “One group of young Jewish men worked at unloading and cleaning the trains; another group sorted the property of victims, while a further group removed the bodies from the gas chambers. All of these men were subject to the selection process and themselves in danger of being sent to the gas chambers” (“The Holocaust Explained”).
He used them in his factory because they were slave labor and they didn’t have to be paid. In the end Schindler befriended them, Itzhak Stern, his business manager was a very good friend. Schindler let the Jews celebrate the Sabbath, gave them adequate food, and didn’t make them work to hard. Schindler was very friendly to the Jews and treated them well.
In June of 1942, the Nazis began to relocate the Krakow Jews to labor camps(Holocaust). Some of Schindler’s workers and office manager were among the first to report to the train station; but when Schindler found out, he ran to the train station(Oskar). By dropping threats, along with some Nazi friends, Schindler got his Jews back and brought them back to the
The book The Drawer boy was written by Michael Healy. It is taken place in Toronto, Ontario and describes of a young boy aspiring to be an actor. His next role is to portray life at a farm, a play he would call The Farm Show. He sought out after two men owning a farm. The play begins to unravel strange behaviors of these two farmers, mysterious ways, and how they became to have this farm from a sad situation.
