ExperiencesThese quotes and images tell about the despondent lives of the victims during the Holocaust
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Jeannine Burk"I was never allowed to have a father. I don't have a picture of my family except for one little picture of me and my father. I have no idea of what the five of us looked like together. None. And all because he was a Jew. He never killed anyone. He never robbed anyone, yet they murdered him. They exterminated him simply because he was a Jew." -Jeannine Burk
Jeannine Burk grew up in Belgium with her two siblings and her mother and father. Her and her family were Jewish, and her father was taken away from her family at a young age. She was still young when her older siblings sent her off to America from Belgium. Being Jewish in Europe was tremendously dangerous due to Hitler and his beliefs. |
Ed Mosberg"And there is so much to tell. As a 13-year-old boy in Krakow, Mosberg was excited that he didn’t have to go to school when the Nazis began moving him and his extended family into one cramped apartment in the ghetto. “I was still happy when I could see my grandparents and everybody together,” he smiles. “And then they slowly start eliminating – taking away my grandparents, my aunt, my uncle, everybody.” " -Ed Mosberg
Mosberg talks about the difficulty of surviving the Holocaust, and that if the survivors stop talking about the facts and what happened, people will stop talking about it. |
Oskar Schindler“I was very moved by your courageous self-sacrifice. More importantly, however, I thank you Schindler, for having restored my faith in mankind,” -Anonymous
This was a quote written from one of the survivors that Schindler helped save during the holocaust. Schindler helped save the lives of 1,200 Jews during this time. He hired thousands of Jews to save them from the Nazi's to work in his factory, and was very successful with saving a vast amount of them. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgOiVOpCag4
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This link will take you to a video based on true events that took place in Auschwitz told by Survivors.
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Image 1 - Nazi soldiers forced Jews into trucks by kicking them with their boots. These trucks then took Jews to their execution. The Nazis treatment to the Jews was very cruel and this image is an example of how Nazis saw themselves as the superior race and their hatred for Jewish people.
Image 2 - A synagogue in Kuppenheim, Baden Germany burns during Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass). Children stand outside and watch it burn. Kristallnacht was a coordinated attack on Jews that was ordered by Nazi officials. Jewish people had their homes, businesses, synagogues and churches destroyed.
Image 3 - Burning bodies in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. After Jews were killed they took their bodies and eventually burned them. The burning of these bodies took place right in the concentration camps. The smell of burning flesh was awful and Jews had to live and work right next to where their family and friends dead bodies were being burned.
Image 4 - (click on the image) "The Jewish nose is bent. It looks like the number six..."
Image 5 - (click on the image) "The German student fights for the Fuhrer and the people."