The Holocaust: The Survivors Of The Holocaust

They saved 2,500 children by smuggling them and saving them from ghettos and Poland. herself saved 400 children. The Germans were on to her and her activities so they arrested her and tortured her but she wouldn't say anything to them. When it came to her execution day her team bribed the guards to open the gate and let her escape, after she escaped she kept saving children (Editors, The famous people.com).

After some time, Jan started smuggling Jews out of the Ghetto, and they started hiding them in the zoo. Once in the zoo, Antonina would find them a place to stay and feed them. Jan was drafted twice but both times he

Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Killed many Nazis during World War ll and saved many Jews because they killed the Nazis. Freddie Oversteegen was only 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance. One of the quotes from the Survivors Scholastic News Article is, “Most of their family had been killed by the Nazis at the concentration camp called Auschwitz. More than 1 million people died there. Most of them were Jewish.”

World War 2 was know as the most brutal war in history. Families have been lost, innocent jews were killed or sent away to concentration camps and family having to move from one place to another to not get caught. But for Antonia, it was worse. In the “The Zookeeper’s Wife” by: Diane Ackerman, Antonia Zakinski has grew a family of her own during world War 2. She has to learn how to protect her family on her own when her husband went off to war and take care of her other family her zoo.

Every day, she saw trucks loaded with Jews heading to the railway station from where the trains left for Nazi concentration camps. She did not tell anyone, not even her own foster parents, about the people in hiding whom she was assisting. When purchasing food for the people in hiding, Gies

She had a special permit to enter the ghetto where she wore a yellow star to show she was Jewish. In secret, Irena directed a children’s rescue group to smuggle Jewish children from the Ghetto. This group was part of an organized ‘underground’ council called Zegota, set up to help Jews. When Irena rescued children, she provided them with false papers and fake names and placed them with temporary Polish families, who pretended that the children were relatives. When she could not find a family willing to take such a risk, she placed them in institutions like the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters , or in convents.

They were held in their own house of worship beforehand even. A cruel ironic

The Holocaust is one of the darkest times in history. The Holocaust was started by Hitler, defining people if they were Jewish, part Jewish, or Aryan. Little did these people know that it would get a lot worse for Jewish people after a few years. In a few years innocent people were being sent to gas chambers just for being Jewish.

Historians have been debating how the spirit triumphed during the Holocaust for years. The spirit triumphed through the Holocaust through many, many distractions, nature, and the support and love of family and friends. The Nazis had killed, and enslaved so many Jewish people in concentration camps. But, the Nazis couldn’t take their spirit from them.

The holocaust took place during WWII. At this time the chancellor of Germany know as Adolf Hitler had ordered a crusade against the jewish race. In this time period over 6 million jewish people including men women and children. Families were stripped from their homes with nearly all of their possessions removed from them. After first entering the gates they weren't even allowed the cloths off their backs.

The Holocaust is the genocide of almost six million European Jews during World War II, in an intentional attempt to eradicate by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party known as Nazis in Germany under the command of Adolph Hitler. While the majority of people today understand at least vaguely what the holocaust was, yet there are actually an aggrandizing amount of people that don't fathom or apperceive what it involved. The holocaust was primarily a mission to eradicate all Jews, disabled, mentally challenged, blacks, gypsies, or anyone who wasn’t a pure Aryan off of the face of Earth. To be more specific the holocaust was to annihilate all Jews first because Hitler had some mental enmity with them. He had said that Jews were

The Holocaust is the deadliest recognized genocide in human history. It lasted from January 30,1933 – May 8,1945 and would result in the l1 million deaths. The causes of the Holocaust begin at the end of World War One with what Germans referred to as “the stab in the back”. This was a myth that claimed the German Army did not loose World War One but was betrayed by the Jewish population who gave up land and supplies to the Allies. As this spread anti-Semitism or hate for Jewish people grew in Germany as people viewed the Jewish population as deceptive and traitorous.

After that people tried to return to their homes from the camps or there hiding places, but they found out that their homes had been taking over by others or looted. One person that survived was, Felix Horn, Felix and the other survivors were getting help by Brihah by an underground agency. Felix took student papers and his books just in case he would ever go back to school. Felix was born to a Jewish family in Lublin, Poland. His dad was a locksmith and his mom was a signer.

The Holocaust affected everyone. Not one single life went through the atrocities untouched. Today, the effects are still being felt. As one of my classmates once

The Holocaust took place during the years 1933 to 1945. It was an attempt to remove all of the Jews, and other smaller groups such as homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses, which lived in the country of Germany. The events that took place during the holocaust were lead by a German man named Adolf Hitler. Schindler's List is a film about the Holocaust from a man named Oskar Schindler's perspective as a leader of a concentration camp. The film displays the five stages of the Holocaust.