In 1944 the Germans decided to clear up the Lodz ghetto completely because the Russian army was getting closer. When they arrived at the Auschwitz, Dr.mengele selected people to work and the others straight to their death. Arek was clueless but he noticed that there were two lines one line had all the healthy people the other had the weak he was on the weak so he snuck into the other line on the right. He was forced to wear a striped suit and leave all his belongings he had his head shaved and body shaved and was made to take a shower he was then tattooed the number B7608 and from that day on he was called by that number and he was no longer Arek as if he was no just and object no a human being. After a few weeks Arek had to work for the SS
They knew that if the Nazis heard any babies crying or any other noises, they would be suspicious and find out about the secret tunnel. Then, that would mean immediate death. Joe along with his mother and two brothers walked through the tunnel in a "line" fashion. They stayed in Poland, hiding in a farm house owned by non-Jews. They let Joe and his family hide there for about a year.
And that factory would soon employ Jewish workers. The factory is located at Krakow, Germany where it’s still standing to this day. Right before the Nazis attacked Poland, Oskar moved away in 1939. Oskar took advantage of when the Germans Germanized the Jewish and Polish owned businesses, he bought a factory named “enamelware” and made the plant into the “Oskar Shindler.” Shindler owned and worked on two factories at the time, but Jews only worked at the “enamelware” factory because it was closer to the ghetto where the Jews
She was living in Bielitz, Poland, where she was born, and she reacts with terror as she watches her neighbors meet the invading Nazis with happiness. They were trying to hide the fact of war from Gerda’s father because he was sick and they didn’t want to worry him. When their town was invaded they couldn’t keep it a secret from him any more. Bad things started happening to the Jews, and the Nazis were taking Jewish men. In October, Gerda’s brother Arthur, was forced to leave with a Nazi and all of the other young men in town.
First they shift the Jewish people to live in ghettos; then they arrest them and transport them to Birkenau, the reception center that leads to Auschwitz. Elie, his parents, and his sisters are arrested by the Nazis and sent by cattle car to Birkenau. During the journey, Elie, his family, and the other Jews suffer from the inhuman conditions they must endure; they are also driven to distraction by the hysterical screams of Madame Schachter, who has hallucinations of fire and furnace. When Elie and his family arrive at the concentration camp, they see flames rising out of an oven, which is actually a crematorium for the prisoners. They are repulsed by the stench of burning flesh.
Despite the Jews' belief that Nazis wouldn't be able to come near the capital city, Budapest, the Germans soon move into Sighet. Jews are forced to turn in all valuables, and everything they owned. Eventually, the Jews are confined to small ghettos, crowded together into narrow streets behind barbed-wire fences. Jews remaining in Sighet were thrown into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz. On the third night in the cattle cars, Madame Schächter, a middle-aged woman who is on the train with her ten-year-old son begins to scream that she sees fire outside the window.
In addition, Jews were excluded from public schools and universities. The Jews of Amsterdam were forced to live in sealed off ghettos, and after May 1942 they forced to war the yellow star. By the end of 1042, approximately 38,500 Jews had been departed from Holland to death camp near Poland. Dutch Christians made thousands of heroic efforts to save Jews and hide them, but most were caught by the Nazis. Alfred and his parents were transported to the Sobibor death camp near Lublin, Poland.
Jammed into the cattle car with Eliezer and his father was a woman named Mrs. Schächter. She and her son were also being sent to a concentration camp. All of a sudden, she started screaming to the others that she saw a fire after they arrived at Auschwitz. After the first couple times she did this, two of the strongest men in the car hit her until she become silent. This was an extreme form of dehumanization.
Every single week the Gestapo would come in and take our valuables and even people! They would be sent to concentration camps, and others for work, but we never knew if we would see each other again. Soon the Pabianice ghetto was emptied and we were sent to the Lodz ghetto, I was only 12 for two years I sewed clothes for two years at a factory. Until in august 1944 we were sent to Auschwitz, my sister was sent to die and I worked in an airplane factory, when the Americans began bombing we were sent to the Mauthausen camp, after 10 days with little food or water, I was liberated by the Americans. Q: How has this experience changed your life perspective, on the need to respect everyone as equals despite their
From this smaller room, a ladder led to the attic. The door to the Achterhuis was later covered by a bookcase to ensure it remained undiscovered. Only a select group of people knew of their hiding place, and they kept the family informed of war news and political developments. The people who knew of their hiding were the employees that worked with her father, and they provided them with food knowing that if they were caught they would face death for sheltering Jews. On July 13th 1942 the Franks were joined by the van Pels family and by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and family friend.