Irena Sendler was an influential character to the Jewish community. Back in 1942 and 1943 she saved the lives of more than two-thousand Jewish adolescents. “In Poland, she is affectionately known as the “mother of the holocaust children.” She was a Polish , Roman Catholic nurse, and social worker. Even though she was not a Jew she felt compelled to help them escape. She once said,”You see a man drowning, you must try to save him, even if you cannot swim”. She believed that Hilter's actions were inhumane. Irena Sendler was born on February 15, 1910. She was born as Irena Krzyzanowska. Her parents were Stanislaw Krzyzanowski and Janina Kryzanowska.
She was born in Otwock, a small town about fifteen miles from Warsaw Ghetto. Her great act of heroism was considerably influenced by her father. He was a Polish socialist. His patients were mainly poor Jews. When the Nazis, governed by Hitler,constructed the Warsaw Ghetto many Polish ignored the fact that senseless killing was going on in their community.
Some even praised Hitler for this. Although the Nazis' actions did not directly effect Irena Sendler and her family, she still defied the Nazis and saved over two-thousand Jewish adolescents. She accomplished this by smuggling the children out of the ghetto they were in. Over the course of a year she found non-Jewish families to adopt the children and safe havens where they would not be found. ” At the time, Irena was a Senior administrator in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department, which operated the canteens in every district of the city”.
The canteens supplied clothing,medicine, and money for the children. In order for the children to remain at the canteens they had to register under...
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... Irena Sendler was honored for her bravery many years later. She was honored by national Jewish organizations in Jerusalem, and was even awarded Poland's highest distinction, The Order of White Eagle in Warsaw. Irena Sendler was an amazing woman,with a tremendousamout of strength, courage,and selflessness. Without her those 2,500 children most likely would have been killed. Irena Sendler died on May 12, 2008,at the age of ninety eight. She will always be remembered as a hero.
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To begin with, on April 20, 1926 in Raesa, Romania Anna Seelfreud was born. In Anna small town of Raesa lived about 1,000 people and 50 Jewish families. Jews were known to be respected people in the town. Anna grew up
Rudi Leavor was born in may 31, 1926 in Berlin. Rudi was one of the survivors of the holocaust. Rudi’s father was a dentist, Rudi’s family all lived in one room set aside as his father’s surgery. The family were fully integrated into German culture and society.Rudi's parents had many non-Jewish friends. Their best friends were non-Jewish and the lady of the couple taught Rudi to play the piano.
The way to Auschwitz was always a train ride but after that, the twins’ lives separated from the rest. The train unloaded onto a sorting platform, where an Auschwitz doctor sorted them. One doctor that helped sort was Dr. Josef Mengele. He worked no more than any other doctor, but he would appear while off-duty to try to find twins or people with other physical deformities (“Josef Mengele” Holocaust Museum par.7). Directly after they were taken away, they were treated very well. They were forced to take a shower, but they got to keep their own clothes and hair. They also had to fill out a form about their family history and basic facts about their health. Since most of these children now had no families, Dr. Josef Mengele acted as a father figure for them. He would interact with the children, and talk to them. Sometimes he even played with them. He often gave them candy or chocolates too. In this part of the camp, he was known as Uncle Mengele (Rosenberg par.12-14).
At the age of 14, she delivered a child. This child was from another father, so it was killed. The following year she was married to Count Ferencz Nadasdy. He was a very powerful noble in Hungary. Because of his high power, he was often chosen to govern the Hungarian Army during the Ottoman wars. He was not very supportive of her. Only marrying her for her father’s money and power. Making her feel bad about herself. Some people believe that this is why she started to kill and torture the common women, making them feel bad about being a commoner, and her feeling good about being a noble’s daughter.
In Amsterdam, she witnessed Jews being drowned. They would drive them into rivers. Theresa said: “I saw with my own two eyes, one hundred and twenty Jews killed.” Another incident was that one day she was going to this field, and what she found was very tragic; she saw Jews basically forced to stand in a field and allow themselves to be shot. What made her want to help is the fact that Jewish mothers cried for their babies, and she just thought of what it would be like because she had children of her own. Eva Fogelman describes, “Weerstra believed this preposterous account readily enough. She had witnessed Nazi inhumanity. She was aware.”
Jews have perished because of their beliefs since the beginning of time but never have so many Jews been persecuted worldwide as they were in World War II. Anne Frank’s diary reaches a place within all of our hearts because it reminds us how easily the innocents can suffer. Sometimes we may choose to close our eyes or look the other way when unjustifiable things happen in our society and Anne’s tale reminds us that ignorance, in part, claimed her life. Sadly, her story is but one of many of those who died in the Holocaust and as with other Jews, her fate was determined by the country she lived in, her sex and her age.
Anne Frank, born on June 12, 1929 was a teenage writer, who wrote everything about her experience during the Holocaust in her diary. She was from Frankfurt, but sudden moved to Amsterdam in February 1934 after Nazi’s seize of power, and their intentions for the Jews. Anne and her family was hidden in the Secret Annex, which was located behind a attic above a family owned business. The heroes that helped the Frank family was Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Jan Gies, and Miep Gies. They would risk their own lives helping the Franks. They finally got caught 2 years later in August 4, 1944 when an anonymous caller gave a tip to the Gestapo (German Secret State Police). Anne and her family was sent to concentration camps, which sadly herself, sister and mother died. Luckily her father Otto Frank survived and published her diary to share her
Sonya Kovalevsky was born on January 15, 1850 in Moscow, Russia. She grew up in a very intellectual family. Her father was a military officer and a landholder; her mother was the granddaughter of a famous Russian astronomer and an accomplished musician. She grew up living a lavish life, and was first educated by her uncle, who read her fairy tales, taught her chess, and talked about mathematics. She even bumped into the subject of trigonometry while studying elementary physics. She achieved all of this by the age of thirteen.
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl living in Holland during World War II. During this time, also known as the Holocaust, Hitler, the chancellor of Germany hated Jews. He started concentration camps where Jews would be taken to live in horrible conditions if they were not killed by the Nazis first. To avoid being taken to a concentration camp, Anne and her family went into hiding with the help of people such as Miep Gies. While in hiding, Anne wrote in her diary. One quote from her diary is, “Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart”. I know that people don’t always do the right things, but I agree that deep down, everyone is good.
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.
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They all had to live in the Warsaw ghetto (“Children’s Diaries”). Halina, another child survivor, tells us what happened to her while in hiding. Halina and her family went into hiding with a friend of her mother in a basement (“Peabody”).... ... middle of paper ...
The Holocaust refers to the genocide that took place during the World War II, where around six million Jews were killed by the Nazi, a National Socialist German Workers’ Party led by Adolf Hitler. The Nazi’s put Jews in the ghettos, and from here some were selected for transportation to extermination camps by use of a freight train. Majority of the Jews were killed in the gas chambers, in addition to this some were placed in concentration camps where they were used as slave labor till they died of exhaustion or disease (Spiegelman 62). In the comic book The Complete Maus by the Art Spiegelman, he has been able to portray his father Vladek’s life experiences during World War II as a survivor. I will be discussing both the short and long term consequences of the experiences of the Holocaust for Vladek Spiegelman.
"A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Victims." A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Victims. University of South Florida. Web. 19 May 2014.
Eva Heyman was born February 13, 1931, Nagyvarad, Hungary. In 1933-1939, Eva’s parents Agnes (her mother) and Bela (her father) divorced. Eva was the only child. Her mother remarried and moved to Budapest. She rarely saw her father, who lived on the other side of the city. She lived with her grandparents on the border between Romania and Hungary near the pharmacy they owned. Nearly one-fifth of the city’s population was Jewish. The beginning of the Holocaust had little impact on their lives.