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Felix Weinberg's Life Before And After The Holocaust

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Holocaust signifies“sacrifice by fire”. The Germans thought that they were “superior” to all other races. They claimed that they had encountered a “final solution” to the “problem” of racial disparity. Germans targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority". They targeted Gypsies, disabled, Poles and Russians. Many groups had to march the treacherous marches, eat the horrible food and live/die in dreadful conditions. This is an account of one of the survivors that went through the appalling conditions before, during and after the holocaust. The fear of death consumed him. He smelled the diseases, tasted the stale bread and rancid soup. He heard the screams of people everywhere, but he clung on to the flicker of hope burning …show more content…

The genocide of the Jews known as the holocaust, This is the story of Felix Weinberg.

Felix Weinberg was born on April 2, 1928 in in the Sudeten part of Czechoslovakia. His mother (Nelly Maria Altschul) and his father (Victor Weinberg) got married in August 1927. Nine months after the wedding Felix was born. Felix was born with the name Felix George Weinberg but after the holocaust he rejected all things German and gave himself the middle name Jiri. Jiri is …show more content…

In the Easter Time they would go to a ski hut/ hotel at the Keilberg. Felix moved frequently from one home to another which affected his recollections of childhood. It was harder for Felix to have friends because of the frequent movement. He loved nature and had books about birds and plants. He also liked to go shopping with his mother and having tea with her lady friends. He disliked playing with the girls of his mother's friends because he found them rather bossy. At the age of four Felix had a radical tonsillectomy (which is a surgical procedure for the treatment of cancer of the tonsil). However, Felix liked being ill because he liked to spend time in bed reading books and comics. The first time his parents went on a trip without “the children” Jan (Felix’s brother) broke his collarbone playing and had to get surgery. His parents never went on a trip alone again. When Felix was eleven his uncle taught him how to play the cello, even though he was clumsy and his uncle was impatient. “I had a very happy childhood. It came to an end too soon and too abruptly, thanks to Adolf Hitler.”(Weinberg 10).Hitler said “Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send

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