Why I Want To Live During The Holocaust?

Imagine if you, were a jew during the Holocaust. How would you have felt? Probably pretty awful. Although you may not want to live during the Holocaust, there were many who did and they didn’t have the choice. The Holocaust involved many people including rescuers, children, and adults. As a rescuer during the Holocaust, they faced the threat of the death penalty if they were caught helping a jew. By hiding a jew, Polish people put themselves in great danger. This threat was also feared by and extended to those who knew about a hidden jew. Because of the great danger of hiding jews, some rescuers did not even inform their closest family members what they were doing. When rescuers decided to shelter a child they had no idea how long the child
If they were lucky enough to be sheltered, they felt abandoned by their parents, they faced trauma of the separation from their family, and loneliness/ yearnings that followed. Some children who were sheltered died due to denunciation or extortion, hunger, and the cruelties of weather. Some people even sought to report them to the Germans. According to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Political Prisoners(Communists,Socialists, and trade unionists) wore red triangles, Common criminals wore green triangles, Roma(Gypsies) wore black triangles, Jehovah Witnesses wore purple triangles, and Homosexuals wore pink ones”(Prisoners of the Camps 1). Some children finished or dropped school to find jobs such as a women’s tailor. They were forced out of school if they had not already dropped out.Some of the children’s parents were arrested in front of their eyes some of which even committed suicide in their prison cells. Also, if you looked very jewish you had to remain
In the camps, prisoners were forced to wear colored triangles for easy recognition. According to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Political Prisoners(Communists,Socialists, and trade unionists) wore red triangles, Common criminals wore green triangles, Roma(Gypsies) wore black triangles, Jehovah Witnesses wore purple triangles, and Homosexuals wore pink ones” (Prisoners of the Camps 1) According to Moishe Krol,“ forced laborers felt like helpless chickens in a coop, waiting to be yanked away for slaughter.” Sometimes prisoners of forced labor camps were killed in Allied bombings. In some cases, an employer may have suspected that you were a jew, so they may have threatened to report you to the Germans. In other cases, an employer may have assaulted you in some form, such as sexually like in Fryda Litwak’s case. This is only a small amount of the many scenarios for the adults in the