Analysis Of Irene Csillag

Irene Csillag was a surivivor. She survived from Auschwitz camp, and went through a lot of obstacles just to get out of the camps and to start a new life. The survivors and victims of the Holocaust were put into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial to honor them. The identification cards were used in the Holocaust Memorial to identify each person in the Memorial.

Irene Csillag was a survivor at Auschwitz camp born in 1925 in Satu Mare which was in Romania. She had a mother, father, and one sister named Olga which survived with her too. When her father passed, she had to help out with the family. She became a dressmaker. She knew how to speak German because her father knew how to speak it well. When the SS arrived, everyone was taken and put into the

Stuttthof was very similar to Auschwitz, but the only difference was its size. Stutthof was just smaller then Auschwitz. Irene was assigned to clean the toilets in the morning by the Slovakian guard. Then she was assigned to work in the kitchen. Since Irene worked in the kitchen, she saved potato and beet peels, and used up coffee grinds to give to her mother and sister to eat. Irene’s mom was becoming sick very fast, and could not eat the food that Irene saved her. One cold and snowy day, Irene was looking for the scarf that they still owned so she could go do her work, but it was wrapped around her mother because she was cold. Olga then told Irene that their mom was dead. Their mother’s body laid along hundreds of other bodies. Later, her sister became very sick and weak, and could not walk. Irene encouraged her sister to walk, since they were the only two left. Irene was very cautious of Olga, frightened that if she could not stand at roll call, she would be taken away and killed. After the Jewish holiday of Purim in March, Olga and Irene were sent to Danzig. The Nazis kept running away from the Russians and Americans as the war was coming to an end. The Nazis were taking the Jews with them as they kept running away. The Nazis put the Jews on a small, crowded ship, as they ran away from the Russians and Americans. As they were on the ship, the Jews overheard that the Nazis would throw them overboard. Since there was a ladder on the ship, the Jews started to climb off of it, so they could escape. Olga was ahead of Irene, and as Irene was about to climb down, the SS took the ladder away. Irene fell into the water because of everyone trying to flee off of the boat. She then started to drown because she could not swim. As Irene was drowning, someone immediately saved her. Sadly, it was the SS. Everyone was forced to march. While they were marching, Irene started to notice the amount of Nazi soldier’s decline