The Story Of Rosa Marie Burger's Accounts For The Kristallnacht

Site #1: Rosa Marie Burger’s Holocaust Story In Rosa Marie Burger’s story, she accounts for the Kristallnacht and the difficulties that the Jews in her village went through to try to keep safe from the terrors of the Nazis. She tells of how Jews would come to her mother so that they could learn English in hopes that they might be able to get a sponsor in America so they can escape the looming war. During Kristallnacht, or the Night of broken Glass, she tells of several trucks of Nazis coming and using axes to break down doors and destroy everything worth value in the homes, she also recalls a woman who fled into the night with her son and only wearing her nightgown and caught pneumonia and didn’t survive. She also told of how the Nazis used

When Andrew was seven, his family decided that Poland was no longer safe for them to reside there so they tried to escape to the United States. Andrew and his family had to avoid border patrol, the police, and the draft. Railways upped the prices for tickets for the Polish Jews which made it even harder for the Jews to leave. They also had trouble getting the documents they needed to get in and out of the countries they needed to travel through to get to the United States. When they had to pass through the Soviet Union, they would be interviewed at three in the morning by the NKVD, the secret police, and some interviewers never were seen again. Other interviewers that could pass through had to pay for their visas in American or British currency, but if they were found with these currencies in their possession they would be arrested and sent to a Siberian

The Nazis called this the Euthanasia Program. Euthanasia translates to good death. The Nazis sold this to the public as a way of putting the disabled to rest, and giving them a “way out” of a pain filled death, but the Nazis saw it as a clandestine murder program. They would kill people who were mentally and physically disabled. The Nazis targeted all the disabled, not just the elderly or the middle-aged people with disabilities. Children were also murdered for these tests, and they would pressure the parents to admit them to a hospital in Germany or Austria but they would be sent off the killing wards, where the nurses would overdose or starve the children. The project only included infants and toddlers at first, but then it consisted of children up to the age of 17. Over 5,000 children were killed in the Euthanasia