There were many courageous heroes who took risks, and made sacrifices to protect and change the lives of people during the tragic events of World War II. However, one woman seems to stand out in the crowd when it comes to saving the lives of people during the holocaust. Her name is Lois Gunden. She was a brave women who truly cared for children. She was the rescuer of many children from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. She went out of her way to ensure the safety of these targeted children. Before Lois Gunden began her journey to France to help the children, she resided in Goshen, Indiana. She was an American-French mennonite, born February twenty-third, 1915. In Indiana, Lois Gunden was a teacher. Also, according to Goshen.edu, “Gunden Clemens was a 1936 Goshen college graduate and a French professor at the college from 1939-1941 and 1944-1958.” She was an intelligent young women who found importance in her academics, and serving in her church. Her kindness was …show more content…
She joined the mennonite organization, Secours mennonite aux enfants, in Lyon, and established a children’s home in canet plage, on the sea side of the mediterranean. It was a safe place for Spanish refugee children, fleeing the Flanco dictatorship, and Jewish kids. The Jewish kids were taken away from the nearby Rivesaltes internment camp. Just as themennonite.org states, “The home would be a safe haven for the children of spanish refugees as well as for many jewish children, especially those smuggled out of the nearby Rivesaltes camp.” There were many instances in which Lois Gunden lied to authorities to protect the children. She even made the excuse that a few of the children's’ laundry had not been dried, so that a police officer could not return them to the internment camp. She spent much of her time defending the children, and making sure they were safe and
Mary Eugenia Surratt, née Jenkins, was born to Samuel Isaac Jenkins and his wife near Waterloo, Maryland. After her father died when she was young, her mother and older siblings kept the family and the farm together. After attending a Catholic girls’ school for a few years, she met and married John Surratt at age fifteen. They had three children: Isaac, John, and Anna. After a fire at their first farm, John Surratt Sr. began jumping from occupation to occupation. Surratt worked briefly in Virginia as a railroad contractor before he was able to purchase land in Maryland and eventually establish a store and tavern that became known as Surrattsville. However, the family’s fina...
•Although she may not be one of the most famous Holocaust survivors, she was one of the most important. She led about 2,500 children to safety from the horrible Ghetto's conditions. She was never forced to do any of the things she did, yet she still risked her life and almost lost it doing something so important to her.
Simon Wiesenthal: The Nazi Hunter. There are many heroic individuals in history that have shown greatness during a time of suffering, as well as remorse when greatness is needed, but one individual stood out to me above them all. He served as a hero among all he knew and all who knew him. This individual, Simon Wiesenthal, deserves praise for his dedication to his heroic work tracking and prosecuting Nazi war criminals that caused thousands of Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other victims of the Holocaust to suffer and perish. The Life of a Holocaust Victim The effect the Holocaust had on Wiesenthal played a major role in the person he made himself to be.
Before saving thousands of Jews in World War 2, she earned an elementary school teacher degree, and only taught in a school for a year, she then worked as a bookbinders apprentice and later became a journalist. She edited the official paper of the National Christian Socialist Party of Czechoslovakia. For a few months she was engaged but called off the marriage to become a religious sister. In 1929 she became a member of the Sisters of Social Service in Budapest. She took her first vows of Pentecost in 1930 and worked as
Bullets whizzed by and, the anguished cries wounded men echoed across the battlefield, but Clara Barton pushed through the sea of bodies; determined to get to the wounded. Even though many might know her from her nickname “Angel of the Battlefield” or as the founder of the American Red Cross, but she started as just a very stubborn, patriotic, young woman who was determined to help. Even in a time of despair. She brought hope to soldiers and their families, both on and off the battlefield.
Mary Cassatt had a wonderful childhood filled with travel and a good education. Mary Stevenson Cassatt was born in Allegheny Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh on May 22, 1885 (Encyclopedia of World Biography 2). She was one of seven children, two of which did not make it past infancy (Creative Commons License 3). Her childhood was spent moving throughout Germany and France, (Creative Commons License 4) until her family moved back to Pennsylvania, then continued moving eastward to Lancaster and then to Philadelphia (Creative Commons License 3), where Cassatt started school at age six (Creative Commons License 3). Then continued her schooling at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
Throughout Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche Dubois exemplified several tragic flaws. She suffered from her haunting past; her inability to overcome; her desire to be someone else; and from the cruel, animalistic treatment she received from Stanley. Sadly, her sister Stella also played a role in her downfall. All of these factors ultimately led to Blanche’s tragic breakdown in the end.
Magawisca demonstrates her heroism early on in the novel when she tries to defend the Fletcher family from being massacred. She tries to intervene, against her father’s wishes, because she feels connected to the family she even states that she “bleeds when they are struck” (65). After being unsuccessful in saving Mrs. Fletcher and her two younger kids, she is determined to help Everell escape the same fate. When Everell is about to be sacrificed by Mononotto’s, Magawisca interposes her arm just as Everell’s neck is about to be struck with his hatchet, and her arm is lost during the process. Magawisca’s bravery and selflessness undoubtedly makes her a hero within the novel despite her gender or race.
The Holocaust was one of the most horrific event to ever happen in history. A young boy named Elie Wiesel and a young woman named Gerda Weismann were both very lucky survivors of this terrible event who both, survived to tell their dreadful experiences. Elie and Gerda both handled the Holocaust in many similar and different ways.
Ofer, Dalia, and Lenore J. Weitzman. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 1. Print.
There is one thing all hidden children of the holocaust have in common, silence. Lola Rein Kaufman is one of those hidden children. And she is done being silent. Lola Rein was a hidden child during the holocaust. She was one of the lucky ones; one of the 10,000- 500,000 that survived. Her family wasn’t as lucky. Lola endured, los, abandonment, and constant fear, but has now chosen to shed her cloak of silence.
The children during the holocaust had many struggles with their physical health. They were forced to stay in very small places and were unable to have contact with a doctor if they had gotten sick. Also they had a lack of food and some children in their host homes would get abused and mistreated. At least a little over one million children were murdered during the holocaust (“Children’s diaries”). Out of all the Jewish children who had suffered because of the Nazis and their axis partners, only a small number of surviving children actually had wrote diaries and journals (“Children’s diaries”). Miriam Wattenberg is one out of the hundreds of children who wrote about their life story during the time of the holocaust (“Children’s Diaries”). She was born October 10, 1924 (“Children’s Diaries”). Miriam started writing her diary in October 1939, after Poland surrendered to the German forces (“Children’s Diaries”). The Wattenberg family fled to Warsaw in November 1940 (“Children’s Diaries”). At that time she was with her parents and younger sister (“Children’s Diaries”). They all had to live in the Warsaw ghetto (“Children’s Diaries”). Halina, another child survivor, tells what happened to her while in hiding. Halina and her family went into hiding ...
A tragic hero is defined as a person of high social rank, who has a tragic flaw or flaws that lead to their downfall. These heroes’ downfalls are usually either complete ruin or death. Tragic heroes face their downfall with courage and dignity. While many characters in Julius Caesar could fit these conditions, the person who fits the role of a tragic hero the best is Marcus Brutus. Brutus develops into a tragic hero throughout the play, and this is shown though his qualifications of a tragic hero, his high status, his tragic flaws, and his courage in the face of his death.
Lillian Wald was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 10, 1867 into a cultured Jewish family. Both of her parents were immigrants, her mother was from Germany and her father was from Poland. The Walds’ moved from Cincinnati to New York where Lillian’s father, Max, dealt in optical wares in Rochester. She had the advantage of a very good education; not only did she know Latin, but she also spoke German and French as well as English.
The Holocaust was a tragic and discriminatory event. It was a time when most of the Jewish population of France, the Netherlands, and Greece, as well as hundreds of thousands of the citizens of Poland were killed. The gas chambers took the lives of 437,000 people of the Jewish faith in a matter of weeks. At least 6 million people that practiced the Jewish faith were killed during this horrible time. The reason many Nazis targeted children was because they thought that the survival of the children would lead to future generations of Jewish children. Over 1.1 million children died during the Holocaust. Sir Nicholas Winton saved 669 children from a devastating, life altering, day of torture and doom. Nicholas Winton was a hero, therefore his risk was absolutely worth taking.