On November 1, 2016 Maryville University had the honor to welcome Rachel Miller; she is a holocaust survivor and she shared her story with us. Miller was born in Poland of 1938, she is the youngest out of four children. She had two brothers and a sister. Her sister Sabine was her idol and she always looked up to her. Rachel and her family was born Jewish. Miller showed photos that her family had taken together and she named almost everyone in those photos. Her father moved them to Paris because he did not want to serve in Poland army. Once her family moved to Paris her happy childhood began to fade. Her father and uncle was the first to be taken to the concentration camps. They were allowed visitors so her mother insisted her father three times a week. One December 28 when Rachel sister, mom, and herself went to …show more content…
Even though her family was taken away from her when she was young she still pushed on. Also she told us that she is a cancer survivor, which proves she is a fighter as well. She moved to America got married had kids which is a blessing for someone who family was taken from them. Miller survived everything she been through by fighting and not giving up in life. Miller was a positive speaker and she talked about happy moments like she remember how her family got together on Saturdays. I think being positive and thinking of those memories is what gave her hope. In addition, something that surprised me is that her mother changed her name and moved out to the country but she did not do same with her sister. Something inspirational is that she survived so much and still surviving things today. Something helpful that Miller provided was indirectly said is that even though life is hard there is happiness somewhere. Her entire speech had me speechless I did not what to feel one moment I was sad, then I was happy then shocked it was a lot of emotions throughout the
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
I decided to watch the testimony of Sally Roisman, a holocaust survivor. Sally had a strictly orthodox family, with a mother, father, and 10 siblings. Their family owned a textile mill which made dresses and suits. Sally attended a Jewish girls school but didn’t get the chance to finish her education before her school was closed down. Her teachers said very good things about her and that made her and her mother happy. Sally later returned and studied to finish school after the war. She still studies to make up for her loss today. Her family lived in an apartment complex were 15 families lived. 50% of the families were Jews in the complex.
In researching testimony, I chose to write about Eva Kor’s experience during the Holocaust. Eva and her family were taken to Auschwitz II- Birkenau from a Ceheiu which was a Romania ghetto in the 1940’s. Eva’s story starts out in Port, Romania where she was born and raised with her family before the Holocaust. Eva’s family consisted of her twin sister Miriam,two older sisters Aliz and Edit, and her parents Alexander and Jaffa. The last time Eva saw her father and sisters were when they arrived in Auschwitz after exiting the train. Eva and Miriam were with their mother until a man asked if they were twins.Their mother said yes, after asking if that was a good thing and then they were taken away never to see her again. Once taken away, they were brought to a barrack for twins where they were kept for Mengele to conduct experimentations.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
In The Jewish Women of Ravenbrück Concentration Camp the author, Rochelle Saidel discusses how gender plays a large role in the identity of the camp survivors, along with how
Because the Holocaust has captured so much attention in the media, researchers are interested to get stories about the Holocaust from people who actually lived through it. There aren’t many people that are living today that survived the Holocaust, so there is a website to find children that survived the horrific time period by identifying themselves by finding t...
When in America, Helen found that it was hard not to talk about past and the stories of her imprisonment. “Some survivors found it impossible to talk about their pasts. By staying silent, they hoped to bury the horrible nightmares of the last few years. They wanted to spare their children and those who knew little about the holocaust from listening to their terrible stories.” In the efforts to save people from having to hear about the gruesome past, the survivors also lacked the resources to mentally recovery from the tragedy.
Reggie Miller has proven himself to be not only one of the best Pacer’s of all time, but one of the best shooters in the history of the National Basketball Association. Miller played in the NBA for eighteen seasons. He is also arguably the best player to ever play on the Indiana Pacers. Miller is easily one of the greatest and purest shooters to ever play the game. Reggie Miller is undeniably one of the most dominant players to ever play, due to his uncanny ability to dismantle the confidence of any player that he has ever faced, his ability to hit shots under pressure, and his loyalty to his franchise.
Sarah Murdoch is a versatile personality who is a British-born Australian Model, actress and television presenter. She was born in 31st may 1972 in Croydon, South London, United States. Her zodiac sign is Gemini and she was raised in Australia by her parents. She studied ballet by attending The McDonald College of the Performing Arts. Sarah Murdoch holds a British nationality and ethnicity mentioned in her bio is white. But she changed her path after her master told her that she is tall and not suitable for ballet.
Donna Mulhearn is one of the 25 best just leaders of Australia. She became a human shield to save people in the Iraq war. The experience she gained gave her the courage to do positive things for the children in wars, whose parents have been killed or are living under threat or disaster. She is setting up safe houses for the families who lost their houses or are struggling. Donna created an NGO (non-governmental organization) setting up a shelter for street kids in Baghdad, a Centre for children that provides emergency aid to displaced families. She is speaking to schools, groups, and as many people as she can to raise awareness and funds to help the children. Donna was a remarkable woman who showed many values throughout her life. Donna showed
Alice Herz-Sommer was born on November 26, 1903, to Friedrich and Sofie Herz in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She died on February 23, 2014 in London, England, United Kingdom while she was in the hospital. Alice’s dad died before the Holocaust. The lowest point in her life during her two years in the concentration camp was in 1942, when her seventy-three year old mother was sent to Treblinka an extermination camp from Theresienstadt (“Alice Herz-Sommer”).
One of the many perks of being my mother’s daughter is that I’ve been able to go with her to workshops about the Holocaust both that she’s attended and created. Because of that, I have been fortunate enough to listen to survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides give testimony right in front of me. One thing I’ve observed through my exposure to Holocaust testimony is that I don’t know much about the topic of Holocaust resistance.
When we encounter a Holocaust survivor, a lot of questions come to our mind. We start to wonder how did they manage to survive. We tend to assume that once the Holocaust was over, survivors began to reestablish their lives and their pain disappeared. However, Holocaust survivors suffered, and even after 70 years after the liberation, Holocaust survivors still experience difficulties on their day-to-day basis. In the years followed the Holocaust they struggled with their painful memories while attempting to renew their lives, most of them in new countries. The Holocaust was one of the greatest massacres against humanity. As time goes by, the Holocaust survivors’ memories start to fade. The obligation to remember is engraved on every Holocaust memorial, but even words “Never Forget” become wearing eventually. With the fear of future generations forgetting the Holocaust, these survivors bare witness in many ways. One of the ways Holocaust survivors bare witness was by literature and education.
We all know the tragic event about the Holocaust. The mass killing of about 6 million Jews, but one individual really stood out. Her name was Annelies Marie Frank. Anne had on and off relationships with family members, lovers, friends, and others. Anne’s relationships are not very different from ours today, she had some of the same complications as we do.