The Holocaust: Master Race By Iren Safran

The holocaust would kill 6 million people in death camps because they weren’t part of Adolf Hitler’s “Master Race”; amazingly people, like Iren Safran, were able to stay alive in the camps long enough to be liberated. In 1933, Adolf Hitler came into power of Germany, and with him began the Nazi regime. The Nazis had but one goal, to wipe out the Jews of the world. Many different peoples that Hitler did not see as part of his “Master Race” were exiled to camps where they were killed in a barbaric fashion. By the end of the holocaust, Hitler and the Nazis would have killed millions of people. During the time of the Holocaust, 1933 through 1945, Concentration camp inmates who once led normal lives, including survivor Irene Safran, went on to suffer

Around the end of 1944, the Nazis started to go into a frenzy as the front was closing in on them. The Nazis swiftly evacuated all the prisoners from Auschwitz and moved them into the woods to some new camp in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. They were told to help move what were about fifty-pound bombs for the Nazis who wanted them hidden in a better location. Then it all finally came to a close in 1945, as the Americans came and liberated the prisoners. Irene’s Nazi commander almost killed everyone under his rule, but he chose to “spare them” so they could put a good word in for the Americans. They spent the next several months in Czechoslovakia gaining their strength back and becoming healthy again with the Red Cross. Once out on her own again she had her first lucky time in a while. She found her brother Herman walking through the streets. He had assumed that they had died so never checked the survivor lists, even though Irene had checked the list every chance she got. In 1948 she found Tibor, her future husband. Finally, around 1949 they left Czechoslovakia and moved to the United States and never