Irene was born on May 5, in 1922, in a small village in eastern Poland. She had For sisters called Janina, Marysia, Bronia, and Wladiza. Irene’s father was an architect and chemist. Irene’s mother stayed home all day doing cleaning and cooking. There family was an energetic bundle of people that loved and respected one another. Irene and her sisters would catch hurt animals and treat them in there house until they got better. There family went to church and was raised under there Catholic faith, but later on turned from God.…
Have you ever heard Irena Sendler? Irena Sendler created changed offering medicine and supplies, taking care of children, and had a growth mindset. Irena was a leader of justice during World War II.…
Oskar Schindler was a man who lived in Krakow, Poland throughout the period of the Holocaust and World War II. During the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler managed to help over one thousand Jewish people escape from a deadly persecution. Schindler accomplished something that was socially unacceptable at the time; he prevailed against a system that showed no weakness. Schindler manipulated hundreds of men and women during the Holocaust so that he may do the unthinkable, and saved those he should most certainly despise. Oskar Schindler was able to complete all that he did because of his personal background.…
The word ‘holocaust,’ comes from the Greek words ‘holos’ (whole) and ‘kaustos’ (burned), and was used to describe a Jewish sacrificial offering that was burned on an altar. Unfortunately, after 1945, the word took on a more gruesome meaning: the massacre of 6 million Jews by the German Nazis in our second World War. There were many heroes during the Holocaust, but the one that stood out the most was my hero, Irena Sendler. Irena Sendler played a crucial role in securing the safety of many Jewish children through her courageous actions, ideas, and efforts as a humanitarian and social worker who worked in the Polish underground.…
As the war kept going more and more Jews escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and needing a place to hide. Many people non-Jewish people didn't hide because if they got caught they would have been killed immediately. The Warsaw Ghetto is a area closed in by a wall that all Jews are held in. The atmosphere isn't healthy at all. People, mainly kids, are starving to death, homeless. In the Ghettos diseases are spreading, everyone is starving.…
The Germans shipped the Jews by trains and buses to Auschwitz, also other concentration camps. Within a week the number of Jews held in the Vel’ d’Hiv had reached more than 13,000. (Gilbert,2011) Among those detained were Jews Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia. Cecile Winderman Kaufer was one of the innocent people to have lived through and survived to have her story told.…
Annelies Marie Frank born June 12, 1929 in Germany is known though the world for her diary, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. A Young Jewish girl who wrote about how her family was hiding for two years during the German occupation of the Netherlands which was ended published by her father.…
Anne and Margot were sent to the same camp while her mother and father were sent elsewhere. Years later, her father; Otto Frank being the only remaining Frank discovered Anne’s diary and the depth of her thoughts, ambitions, dreams, and intelligence which even he was shocked to discover. Anne Frank often represents the many people who died during the Holocaust, showing people that these victims were actual humans and it really happened. This gave her the title, “The Face of the Holocaust”.…
In 1945, Manya and a friend Hannah escaped a death march from Auschwitz by running off into a dark forest at night and on May 5 the Russians liberated them. In July 1945 she was taken to a displaced-persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany where she was reunited with the remaining members of her family. She recovered here and waited for her turn to leave Europe and immigrate to North…
Duckwitz, risked everything to assist the Danish Jews in avoid to Sweden. In Poland the Chiger class conduct to sally the liquidation of the ghetto by hiding in stench in the sewers for 14 months amongst traitor and filth. The Holocaust was the orderly annihilation of six million Jews. 1.5 million people were murdered. Oscar Schindler came to Auschwitz to reserve 300 Schindler-women from indubitable extinction. This horoscope inclose more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of disabled children. In Denmark a adventurous German diplomatist, Georg F. In Poland a teenager Julian Bilecki and his family hid 23 Jews in an subterraneous bin, excepting them from tne Nazi gangrene relay. The charred skeletons,…
Many may have heard or learned that during January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945, Adolf Hitler ruled Germany. During his time, he sent Jews to concentration camps and led to the mass murder of six million Jews. The mass murder of the Jews was called “The Holocaust” and it lasted 12 years. The ending of the holocaust was credited to the Soviets after they began liberating Jews from several camps. Adolf Hitler had been defeated and he no longer ruled over Germany because the Soviets had defeated him. Although the Soviets did finish dethroning Adolf Hitler, there was one member of a group that did many things to resist the terrors that went on during her time. Many may have never heard of her, or her accomplishments, but her name was Sophie Scholl.…
The Holocaust was a very devastating event in the history of the world. Many people have died in the cruel hands of the Nazi party. But people like Irena Sendler tried to help the Jews who were getting brutally murdered by Hitler. Irena Sendler was influential to aiding and assisting in the Holocaust for reasons including, she saved 2500 kids, almost got killed by Nazies and she had a very interesting life.…
The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis.Jews were the Nazis’ primary victims, they resisted Nazi oppression in a variety of ways, both collectively and as individuals Miep was credited for risking her own life trying to save the Frank family, finding the diaries of Anne Frank, and publishing all of Anne Frank books.…
Oskar ran a factory where he gave thousands of Jews jobs, and protected them from being taken away by the Nazis because the factory created ammunition for the Germans (Meltzer 56). Oskar ran a factory in Poland, and his accountant was a Jew who encouraged him to hire more Jews (Meltzer 55). His accountant had been doing a great job, so Oskar agreed to hire more Jews. He slowly began to realize that they were great people who did not deserve to be discriminated against (Meltzer 56). Overtime, Oskar decided to hire more Jews as there rights were being striped away by the week. Although Oskar did not discriminate Jews, some of his friends did because they were Nazis (Meltzer 59). Schindler was arrested twice in suspicion of doing something…
Until very late in her life, she was not very known. Today, she has won the following: 2007 - Order of the Smile, 1996 - Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, and the higher award; 2001 -Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Some of her lesser known awards are: 2009: the Humanitarian of the Year award from The Sister Rose Thering Endowment, and the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award. Also, she was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Polish Righteous among the Nations in 1965, and in addition, a tree was planted in her honor at the entrance to the Avenue of the Righteous. On top of all these awards, she was also nominated for the Nobel Prize. Other than awards, there was a play that was made in her honor, which depicted her life in a mere ten minutes. Now, it is performed around the world, and it was made by a group of high-schooler girls. Unquestionably Irena Sendler was a very important person in the dark times of WWII. She was not only honored by awards and plays, but a long life, and a lot of love. Sendler lived until she was ninety-eight, which is almost a century! Her life spanned out from 1910-2008, which after the war, was spent confined in a wheelchair. Still, love poured into her life, many of the survivors of WWII that she saved came to thank her. Irena is someone that I chose to acknowledge because even though she isn’t widely known, she saved so many lives. To me, even saving one life is a feat in itself, and Irena saved 2,500 souls, and still thought that she didn’t save enough! Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world,” and Irena definitely made a…