Lore Heumann: A Short Story

When asking anyone what the Holocaust is, there is a very standard answer as to what it was. It is infamously known as the mass killings and imprisonment of Jewish people throughout most of Western Europe. What people fail to acknowledge is that there is more to the Holocaust than this “standard answer.” There have been multiple accounts of what it was like to be in the Holocaust such as the famous books The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Night by Elie Wiesel. The memoir A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal serves the same purpose as any text about this atrocity has served: to inform the public about what truly went on in the concentration camps and beyond. However, A Lucky Child provides a different perspective on the Holocaust. As the title indicates, it is a book about how Buergenthal was able to outlast the most infamous concentration camp: Auschwitz. It is an inspiring story and puts the reader into perspective about all the children who had been killed during the Holocaust, yet he had survived.

The night of Kristallnacht and the rising tensions between our community forced our family to flee to the french border city of Natzwiller. Our family was strong in business as we were successful in revolution and our small workshop grew into a family empire as generations of Schneider lived to keep our proud business open through the wars and the depression. This shoe factory was crucial to us as it provided us success until the night of Kristallnacht. That night, the SA and our neighbors killed our Jared and family’s business. Almost two years in the city of Natzwiller, our family grew into eighteen and a new shoe empire was building until the Nazis invaded the city. 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.

Have you ever thought about how it would feel to be in a concentration camp during the Holocaust? The book Night written by Elie Wiesel, it is about a 16 year old named Eliezer. He is a Holocaust survivor and tells about his time in the concentration camps. It is in first person about how he felt, what he saw and what had happened to him.Hope is good until you lose it.

The Holocaust is one of the saddest moments in human history. While World War One and 9-11 were both hugely devastating blows to us and many others, World War Two exceeds both of those in horror and effect, and it all happened because of one man. Adolf Hitler.

These survivors who experienced this event, have been scarred for the rest of their life. We can listen to their stories but we can’t imagine and experienced what they have gone through. For example, Szymon Binke, Hilma Geffen, and Baker Ella, were the survivors of the Holocaust. Szymon Binke was born in 1931 in Poland, his family moved to the city after the Nazi’s invasion. Nazis deported his family to Auschwitz where his mother and sister were gassed, while, Szymon was placed in Kinder block but after sometime he ran away to meet his family in Auschwitz. Hilma Geffen was born 1925 in Berlin, and died in 1993 in Michigan, USA. She was living a fake identity and Nazis killed her parents in Aushwitz in 1942. Baker Ella was born in 1924 in Vysni Apsa. Her family was forced to ghetto where Nazis held them, later, they were sent to Aushwitz, where she got separated from her parents and never saw them again. Later she was sent to salve labor camp to make airplane parts. All these survivors have different stories but they have a lot of similarities. All three survivors were forced into ghettos and then later their families were sent to Aushwitz where some of the family member

The Holocaust was a dreadful and truly awful time period, people were dehumanized, and shamed into losing their faith while they experienced tragic and awful death and pain. One Jewish survivor documents his experiences with death in his memoir, ‘Night’, Elie Wiesel. The novel is filled with his tales of death, dehumanization, and faith throughout the concentration camp, Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, the Jews lost their innocence that they once had. In the novel, Night, Elie, his father, and his fellow Jews lost their innocence through dehumanization, loss of faith, and experience of death and violence.

There are many stories from of the Holocaust throughout history, and the world. Every story is unique to the Jew’s situation. Most stories end in them escaping and being able to live, right? Well that might be true, but there are stories of friends, family members, and seeing other innocent people die. Two examples of stories told about the Holocaust would be, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Life is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni. Within Night, Elie’s family was taken by the Nazis, separated from each other, and most of them died during the duration of the Holocaust. Elie and his father had to stick together in order to survive. They had to have faith everything would be okay. In Life is Beautiful Guido, his son Joshua, and his wife were sent

Greetings! It is a pleasure to meet you. I am Zara Afridi. I am in 8th grade and a student at Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Middle School (NP3). During the end of the year, we had the opportunity to learn about the Holocaust and what it was and what happened during the Holocaust. Our theme was “Finding Light in the Darkness”. We also had a chance to read non-fictional books about the Holocaust. I am writing specifically to you because I want you to know what I have learned from this unit. It is very exciting to write to a real Holocaust survivor volunteer because the Holocaust happened such a long time ago and i never knew that people from that time are still alive. So,here we go.

It’s 1941, the smell is fowl, the scene is horrifying, and there’s fear circling in the air. There are thousands of innocent people here kept as prisoners. Forced to stay here and work because they are considered as Jews. They have been separated from their loved ones and they have the fear they may not be reunited. These poor people are fighting for survival and are barely alive.

This article is about how Dora had to deal with being separated from her family and really didn't get to see them again, due to the holocaust. This article was to tell people Dora’s story and how she survived the holocaust. This is a reliable source because it explains what this Dora’s life was like before she was taken to a concentration camp and it explains what everything was like in detail and how it was coming back after being liberated. The goal of this article is to explain to the reader what this lady went through such as the separation from her family.

The article Teens fighting against Hitler by Lauren Tarshis, describes a young boy fighting for his life during the holocaust. Ben want to live a normal life surrounded by this family and friends. But him and his family were taken because we were Jewish, to the ghetto. So Ben went out to fight with the partisans against the Nazis. Then Ben survived the World War 2. During this times Ben came across a lot of challenges but was able to live through them with courage.

I’ve read many Holocaust survivor stories, but yours really grabbed my attention. Your story had so much deep meaning that got me thinking. You never gave up. Nothing could stop you from saving your family.

It was the 1940’s in Poland I was captured and put into a prison called Auschwitz Birkenau. I am 35 years old most of family is either dead, in another prison, or hiding from the Nazis. I wish I knew where they were but the last time I saw any of them was when I was with my two little brothers, my mom, and aunt. We were running from a little group of SS soldiers in the forest before everything started we always use to go to a little cabin in the forest so we just used that to hide. After a while they found us so we ran and just kept running until I saw them starting to shoot so I pulled out a pistol I stole from an SS soldier and started shooting. I was able to injure a few of them I wasn’t really trying to kill them all I was trying to do

I can’t even begin to imagine what it was like for you to be part of the Holocaust. It was so disheartening to read about your experiences, and I can’t believe you actually had to go through that. What the Nazis did to Jews was terrible and can never happen again. I am so glad that you didn’t give up and lived to tell your story. It is so upsetting to see that so many people had to go through this traumatizing experience. Your determination and perseverance is inspiring. Nobody deserves to be tortured and taunted because because of their religion. Fortunately, you made the best of your situation, and you have a lot to be proud of. Taking on the role of a mother was amazing, and showed how much you cared about your family. I hope that nobody ever has to go through something like the Holocaust again.

At school in line, Cayden had said that he only cared about the feelings of himself, Shawn, and a couple other kids, which were all classified as African American. I told Cayden that he should care about everyone’s feelings, not just black people’s. He yelled “Don’t call me black!” And pushed me. A couple other things happened, but they are not my business. Those were my actions, and by now I feel bad that I did some of them.