Eva Kor: My First Holocaust Survivor

How do you think people survived the Holocaust? People survived the Holocaust by hiding, believing they were going to get out, and by helping other people so it made them want to survive to. In the paragraphs below you will learn how Eva Kor, Elie Wiesel, Viktor Frankl, and Corrie Ten Boom survived the Holocaust. You will also learn things about the four survivors that I picked and how they survived the concentration camps.

My first survivor that I picked is Eva Kor. Eva’s birthday is January 31, 1934, she is 84 years old. Her siblings are Miriam Mozes Zeiger, Aliz Mozes, Edit Mozes. Edit Mozes and Aliz Mozes died in the concentration camp as well as her parents Jaffa Mozes, her mother, and Alexander Mozes, her father. During the Holocaust

Eva and her family went through a lot.When she was young her and her family let some Hungarian soldiers sleep at there house and lter were taken to a camp and seperated. Since Eva and Miriam were twins they were spared and were experimented on by doctor Mengele. During her stay at the camp Eva got sick and was sent away from her sister for awhile. When Eva was away Miriam got weak and had symptoms of having no desire to live. How did she survive the Holocaust? Eva and her sister survived the Holocaust. Because Eva was determined to live through the Holocaust and never gave up even when her sister did. After the Holocaust was over the twins went to live with their Aunt in Romania. Years later Miriam died of cancer from getting so many injections in 1993. And Eva talks at the Candlelight Museum, still today.

My second survivor that I picked is Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel's birthday is September 30, 1928, he died on July 2,2016. His siblings are Tzipora Wiesel, Hilda Wiesel, and Beatrice Wiesel. His parents are Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel. During the Holocaust Elie went through alot. In May 1944 Elie and his family were taken from there home and sent to Auschwitz. After he was there for a little while he and his father were moved to a different camp called Buchenwald. During the Holocaust his mother and younger sister died, but his two older sisters and him survived. After the Holocaust Elie was placed on a train with a lot of other kids going to France. He was placed in a home in Normandy under the care of a Jewish organizer. When he was older he started writing for the newspaper. Then he became a journalists and wrote many books. One famous quote that I found from Elie Wiesel is ”I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead, and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” I think this quote is important, because it is saying if you forget about all the bad things that happened to these people then you are just hurting them again.

My third survivor that I picked is Viktor Frankl.

Viktor Frankl was born on March 26, 1905 and dies September 2, 1997. He had a brother and a sister named Stella Frankl and Walter Frankl. His parents names were Gabriel Frankl and Elsa Frankl. In 1942 Viktor and his family were arrested and taken to and concentration camp called Theresienstadt. While they were there Victor's father died 6 months after they were taken there. During the Holocaust Viktor was moved between 4 concentration camps, one was Auschwitz were his mother was killed and his brother died. In the camps Viktor and his fellow prisoners tried to help prevent people from committing suicide and people who were facing severe depression problems. I 1945 Viktor was liberated from his camp and became a writer. One famous book that he wrote has called Man’s Search for Meaning this was based off of his point of view of living through the camps and the Holocaust. A famous quote from Viktor Frankl is “ When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves “. This quote is important because it relates to the Holocaust by when is says “we are no longer able to change a situation” this is kind of like when the couldn’t change the Holocaust. And the second part “we are challenged to change ourselves” is related to if you wanted to survive the Holocaust you need to change your point of view about

it.

My last survivor that I picked is Corrie Ten Boom.

Although she wasn’t a Jew or didn't go to any concentration camps, she risked her lives to hide Jews in her home. Corrie’s birthday is April 15, 1892, she died on April 15, 1983 at age 85 from a series of strokes that paralyzed her and she was unable to speak. Corrie’s siblings are Betsie Ten Boom, Willem Ten Boom, Arnolda Johanna Ten Boom. Her parents are Casper Ten Boom and Cornelia Johanna Arnolda Ten Boom. During the Holocaust the Ten Boom family risked their lives to hide Jews in there house on top of a watch shop. There family was also part up and Underground group that moved Jews to a better place. They had hide the Jews for awhile, but in 1944 her family was arrested and taken to prison. In the prison she was separated from her sisters and put in to cell with four other people. When she was in prison she was put into solitary and got very sick and would cough up blood and could barely walk to get her food. Afte Corrie was set free she learned that the papers she had was fake and the people in prison still were killed. After this she returned to the Netherlands and set up a rehabilitation center for concentration camp survivors. She also took in people who had cooperated with the Germans during the Holocaust. In 1971, she wrote a book called The Hiding Place that was later turned into a movie. Later she passed away and the Jewish people said that only special people get the privilege of dying on their

birthday.

In the Paragraphs above you have learned about people who survived the Holocaust by believing, helping other people which made them want to live, and by hiding. This essay was crucial to know, because we need to remember that some believed that they would live during the Holocaust and they did. This essay was important to me, because I needed to know that there were people out there that did survive the Holocaust and that helped Jews in hiding, because they believed.