Eva Kor: My First Holocaust Survivor

How do you think people survived the Holocaust? People survived the Holocaust by hiding, believing they were going to get out, and by helping other people so it made them want to survive to. In the paragraphs below you will learn how Eva Kor, Elie Wiesel, Viktor Frankl, and Corrie Ten Boom survived the Holocaust. You will also learn things about the four survivors that I picked and how they survived the concentration camps.

My first survivor that I picked is Eva Kor. Eva’s birthday is January 31, 1934, she is 84 years old. Her siblings are Miriam Mozes Zeiger, Aliz Mozes, Edit Mozes. Edit Mozes and Aliz Mozes died in the concentration camp as well as her parents Jaffa Mozes, her mother, and Alexander Mozes, her father. During the Holocaust

Viktor Frankl was born on March 26, 1905 and dies September 2, 1997. He had a brother and a sister named Stella Frankl and Walter Frankl. His parents names were Gabriel Frankl and Elsa Frankl. In 1942 Viktor and his family were arrested and taken to and concentration camp called Theresienstadt. While they were there Victor's father died 6 months after they were taken there. During the Holocaust Viktor was moved between 4 concentration camps, one was Auschwitz were his mother was killed and his brother died. In the camps Viktor and his fellow prisoners tried to help prevent people from committing suicide and people who were facing severe depression problems. I 1945 Viktor was liberated from his camp and became a writer. One famous book that he wrote has called Man’s Search for Meaning this was based off of his point of view of living through the camps and the Holocaust. A famous quote from Viktor Frankl is “ When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves “. This quote is important because it relates to the Holocaust by when is says “we are no longer able to change a situation” this is kind of like when the couldn’t change the Holocaust. And the second part “we are challenged to change ourselves” is related to if you wanted to survive the Holocaust you need to change your point of view about

Although she wasn’t a Jew or didn't go to any concentration camps, she risked her lives to hide Jews in her home. Corrie’s birthday is April 15, 1892, she died on April 15, 1983 at age 85 from a series of strokes that paralyzed her and she was unable to speak. Corrie’s siblings are Betsie Ten Boom, Willem Ten Boom, Arnolda Johanna Ten Boom. Her parents are Casper Ten Boom and Cornelia Johanna Arnolda Ten Boom. During the Holocaust the Ten Boom family risked their lives to hide Jews in there house on top of a watch shop. There family was also part up and Underground group that moved Jews to a better place. They had hide the Jews for awhile, but in 1944 her family was arrested and taken to prison. In the prison she was separated from her sisters and put in to cell with four other people. When she was in prison she was put into solitary and got very sick and would cough up blood and could barely walk to get her food. Afte Corrie was set free she learned that the papers she had was fake and the people in prison still were killed. After this she returned to the Netherlands and set up a rehabilitation center for concentration camp survivors. She also took in people who had cooperated with the Germans during the Holocaust. In 1971, she wrote a book called The Hiding Place that was later turned into a movie. Later she passed away and the Jewish people said that only special people get the privilege of dying on their