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The Holocaust: Wladyalav Spizllman
This essay is about Wladyalav Spizllman or also called “the pianist”, he was a Jewish musicians who lived in Poland and lived in the Warsaw Ghetto. For you to understand better I will show you some background knowledge information. The Jewish Holocaust was a systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborator. The Holocaust was a total of six years (1939-1945). Yet the most drastic changes for the German Jewish community came in World War II in Europe. Following the outbreak of war in September 1, 1939, the government imposed new restrictions on Jews remaining in Germany. Jewish were prohibited from entering designated areas in many German cities. Once a general food rationing …show more content…
While he was working the Germans started attacking Warsaw. A lot of places in Warsaw were prohibited to Jewish people, also they couldn’t have a lot of food and money. When the Warsaw Ghetto was constructed him and his family where send there. A lot of people died because of hunger, sickness or by German soldiers. He and his family always watched how people were forced to do things they don’t want, they also watched how German soldiers killed people, one day they were eating their dinner and German soldiers went to the other building to take out money they told a family to stand up from the table but, one man couldn’t because he used wheel chair so Germans throw him from the balcony so he died. His family was send to a concentration camp and he got over to survive and hide until he got a work to get over with the Ghetto’s …show more content…
He escaped and went over to a Janina’s friend house to hide behind a closet were they also hide weapons to fight over the German soldiers. After he started to hide in a apartment that Janina’s friend gave to him. They bring over food for them and other things he might need, but one day he made sound and people heard and almost catch him but he run over to Dorota’s and his husbands house to ask them for an apartment. When they gave him the apartment he was really close to the destructed ghetto and watch how Jewish people fight over and how the Germans won and killed the Jews that were still hiding in the ghetto. After that the Germans started to attack the place where he was and run over to the hospital that was in front his apartment and hide there until the Germans also started to burn places so he started to hide in the destructed ghetto. After a German soldier started to help him getting him food and stuff to survive. He survived the World War II and became the great pianist he was before the

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