carol grushow's story
Carol Grushow a female survivor of the Holocaust tells her story on her life was during those harsh times. She was sent to five different labor camps. They were all different in their own way. The first labor camp she was sent to was Pionek. She and her younger sister rose were there for almost a year. Their main job at the camp was to build Barak's. The second labor camp she was sent to was Hindenburg. Hindenburg was a very clean camp and the main work done there was making beer. After Hindenburg they were sent to a labor camp named Dachau; then a different labor camp named Auchwitz. Auchwitz was the worst camp of them all. At that camp they shaved her head and tattooed a number on her forehead. Her number was A14626. Later she was sent to Bergen Belsen and heard bombs dropping from the planes that hovered the sky. All the prisoners whished the bombs had dropped in the camp and killed them all. She got forced in small houses with many other people. There wasn't much space and there was usually a little or no food during their travels. During the selection process they had to stand in an open area and remove all of their clothing. While at the selection they were inspected for any sicknesses. If anyone looked sick they were killed on the spot. The only thing they ate was watery soup and bread. When someone died, the prisoners would search the dead body for stored foods. When they were released from Bergen Belsen the first thing they did was look for their surviving relatives.
thomas buergenthal and how he survived the holocaust
Thomas Buergenthal was born 1934. His family had fled once they found out Hitler went into power.On the day World War two started,the family boarded a train that was going to take them from Poland to Britain. The train was bombed and they walked to a Polish city called Kielce,where they lived out the first years of the war in the Jewish Ghetto.After the Nazi's destroyed the ghetto they sent most of 25,000 people to their deaths and in those 25,000 was thomas;s grandparents.Thomas and his parents were sent to labor camps.He as sent to Auschwitz with his parents after that camp.He was about to get killed in a gas chamber when they decided not to kill anyone because they wanted more people at a time.He got saved but they made him do the death march.After all of that they stopped the holocaust in 1945.
eva galler!!!!
Eva was born in Oleszyce,poland on January 1st 1924.Her community held 7,000 families and half of them were Jewish.Her father Israel Vogel, was head of the Jewish community.The Jews in the community and the non-Jews did not mix socially only when it came to business.They knew what was happening at the time with the Jews but they were convinced that the Nazi's would not invade Poland.Until they saw the planes,the Nazi's invaded all of Poland in a matter of days.The trouble began when they heard gunshots in one afternoon they killed everyone who was in the street.They started making rules and everyday they were no intense.When the Germans would beat them the non Jews would just laugh.Almost every Jew tried to have a hiding space their hiding space was in the attic behind double walls;even the children knew if they made one single noise it would be a matter of life and death.One day they announced that all Jews had to go to a Ghetto 7 kilometers from where they lived.My brother Berele jumped out, then my sister Hannah, and then I jumped out. The SS men shot at us. I landed in a snowbank. The bullets did not hit me. When I did not hear anything anymore, I went back to find my brother and my sister. I found them dead. My brother Berele was 15. My sister Hannah was 16. I was 17.My brother Berele jumped out, then my sister Hannah, and then I jumped out. The SS men shot at us. I landed in a snowbank. The bullets did not hit me. When I did not hear anything anymore, I went back to find my brother and my sister. I found them dead. My brother Berele was 15. My sister Hannah was 16. I was 17.I went to another family's house that I knew who lived close to the woods. He was a forester. When I worked with the taxes, I had helped them. They were afraid to let me in. It was already dark. I could not walk. It was freezing cold. There was snow. I was not well dressed. I went in the barn where they had a newborn calf, and I lay down with it to keep me warm. About twelve o'clock the wife came to look at the calf. She saw me and felt sorry for me. She let me come and sleep in the house, but in the morning she told me to go.The Red Cross had lists of people who had survived, but we could not find anybody from our family. My half-brother attempted to get me a visa to the United States, but there were quotas. I got a transit visa to Sweden. Meanwhile, from the Red Cross lists I found a friend from Oleszyce who had been in Auschwitz. She was the only other person who jumped from the same train as I did and lived. Her fiancee had met my future husband at the train station in Cracow. My husband was in the Polish army. He and I were childhood friends from Oleszyce. Her fiancee invited my husband to come to their wedding, which was two weeks before I was supposed to go to Sweden, but they did not tell me anything about him.In Poland, after the war I was sick emotionally and physically. I had to go to a doctor to get shots to gain weight. In Sweden I went to a psychiatrist because I could not get over those terrible nightmares. Today I see that when there is a disaster, they send people to a psychiatrist or a psychologist. We had to work out our own problems. As parents we were overprotective to our children. My eldest daughter was accepted at an Ivy League college, but I was afraid to let her go away from home to school. We were afraid to let our children know too much about our past.