Raoul Wallenberg saved over 100,000 Jews from death. Henryk Slawik was credited with saving about 5,000 Polish Jews. Both of these courageous people risked their lives to help others. It is important for all to know what these particular people did during the war to save many people from death.
Raoul Wallenberg was one of the most renowned rescuers of WWII. Not only did he save a numerous amount of Jews from being deported, he also set up many hospitals, soup kitchens, nurseries, and safe houses for the public to use during the sorrowful time of WWII.
Raoul Wallenberg was born in August, 1912. Even as a young adult, he had strong views about anti-Semitism. After studying in the United States in the 1930’s, he was recruited by the U.S. War Refugee Board (WRB) in 1944 to travel to Hungary. His task was to save as many Jews as possible. When he arrived in Budapest, Hungary, Wallenberg started distributing certificates of protection to Jews. He wanted to save as many as possible from the marching columns. Wallenberg used funds from the WRB to institute hospitals,
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soup kitchens, nurseries, and safe houses for the public to use during WWII. When the Soviet forces liberated Budapest in 1945, over 100,000 Jews were saved because of him. Raoul Wallenberg led one of the most successful rescue efforts during WWII and his work never be forgotten. Henryk Slawik was also credited with saving many Jews during WWII. He created fake identification papers and saved thousands of Jews from being transported to Concentration Camps. Overall, Slawik was credited with saving many, many Jews from persecution and torture. He is truly an inspiration. Henryk Slawik was born in 1894. He became an activist against anti-Semitism and a politician in the time period between WWI and WWII. In November 1939, Slawik took the initiative to establish the Citizens Committee For Help For Polish Refugees in Hungary. Afterwards, he got a new position at the Polish Ministry For Social Care’s as a delegate for Hungary. Then from 1940 until the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, Slawik created new Slavic sounding identification papers for Jews. Such documents protected those people from Nazi persecution. “In September 1943 Henryk set up an orphanage for Jewish children and hid 100 children there” (Shawver 2). Overall, Slawik was credited with saving about 5,000 Polish Jews. Henryk Slawik eventually got arrested on March 19,1944 by Germans. Even though he was brutally tortured, Slawik never gave any of the names of his colleagues up. He eventually perished in a Concentration Camp on August 23, 1944. Even though Slawik had a tragic death, his memory will live on for many more generations to come. Matylda Getter was also credited with saving many lives as well. Getter established orphans and children homes during WWII. Her kindness towards others will never be forgotten. Matylda Getter was born in 1870.
She became a Polish nun when she got older. Getter took the initiative of obtaining birth certificates for children while also running many children’s homes and orphanages. “Spurred on by her religious faith, she never demanded payment for her services, although some parents, and a few relatives, paid for their children’s upkeep” (The World Holocaust Remembrance Center 1). When asked why she helped so many children, she replied, “I’m saving a human being who’s asking for help.” Getter and her sisters also managed a paramedical station and a soup kitchen. When running these stations, Getter would secretly bring children out of the ghetto and into hiding in an educational institution. Matylda Getter was ultimately responsible for saving hundreds of innocent lives. She also was honored into the Polish Righteous Among the Nations. Matylda Getter’s work will never be
forgotten. These incredibly courageous people risked their lives for the sake of others. Most of them were executed because of their kind deeds. Raoul Wallenberg, Henry Slawik, and Matylda Getter helped so many people from deportation and death. Their work will never be forgotten.
Starting in 1939 during the Holocaust, many Jews were deported to concentration camps by the Nazis where they will meet their end, but how did some of them survive? Even though most of them died, some lives were saved by the very few people with moral courage. One of the people with moral courage was Carl Lutz. Moral courage is the actions a person takes because of his/her belief of what is right or wrong, even though it may risk his/her life. Lutz was born in Switzerland in 1895 and he emigrated to the United States at the age of 18. During more than 20 years of temporarily staying in the United States, he worked at the Swiss Legislation in Washington and became chancellor of Swiss Consulates in Philadelphia. These events lead him to be appointed as Swiss vice-consul in Budapest, Hungary. During his life as a Swiss vice-consul, he decided to save the Jews because of his belief. By the time of his death in Bern, Switzerland in 1975, Lutz earned the title of Righteous Among the Nations
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
Elie Wiesel and his family were forced from their home in Hungary into the concentration camps of the Holocaust. At a young age, Wiesel witnessed unimaginable experiences that scarred him for life. These events greatly affected his life and his writings as he found the need to inform the world about the Holocaust and its connections to the current society. The horrors of the Holocaust changed the life of Elie Wiesel because he was personally connected to the historical event as a Jewish prisoner, greatly influencing his award-winning novel Night.
•Although she may not be one of the most famous Holocaust survivors, she was one of the most important. She led about 2,500 children to safety from the horrible Ghetto's conditions. She was never forced to do any of the things she did, yet she still risked her life and almost lost it doing something so important to her.
In 1944, the Jews of Hungary were relatively unaffected by the catastrophe that was destroying the Jewish communities of Europe in spite of the infamous Nuremberg Laws of 1935-designed to dehumanize German Jews and subject them to violence and prejudice. The Holocaust itself did not reach Hungary until 1944. In Wiesel's native Sighet, the disaster was even worse: of the 15,000 Jews in prewar Sighet, only about fifty families survived the Holocaust. In May of 1944, when Wiesel was fifteen, his family and many inhabitants of the Sighet shtetl were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. The largest and deadliest of the camps, Auschwitz was the site of more than 1,300,000 Jewish deaths. Wiesel's father, mother, and little sister all died in the Holocaust. Wiesel himself survived and immigrated to France. His story is a horror story that comes to life when students in high school read this novel. Even though many students have not witnessed or participated in such horror, they relate to the character because Wiesel is their age. They cannot believe someone went through the nightmare he did at their age.
There are many heroic individuals in history that have shown greatness during a time of suffering ,as well as remorse when greatness is needed, but one individual stood out to me above them all. He served as a hero among all he knew and all who knew him. This individual, Simon Wiesenthal, deserves praise for his dedication to his heroic work tracking and prosecuting Nazi war criminals that caused thousands of Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other victims of the Holocaust to suffer and perish.
His exposure to the criminal acts of his oppressors changed his whole personality. All he cared about was protecting the other Jews from experiencing the same things he did.
In 1944, the German Nazis occupied Sighet, Transylvania where they started to issue several decrees for the jews. An act of deportation was issued to remove all foreign jews--Wiesel’s teacher Moshe the Beadle was part of the deportation. Moshe the Beadle later escaped and returned to the town to tell the people what the Nazis were doing to the Jews. Nobody believed him. The Wiesel family was exterminated from
" The businessman, Oskar Schindler, demonstrated a powerful example of a man who was moved emotionally to step in and take action to save the lives of the Jewish people. His bravery still commands great respect today. His role shows the great significance of speaking up against injustice and choosing not to be silent.
The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel gives an in depth view of Nazi Concentration Camps. Growing up in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel, a young Jewish boy at the innocent age of 12, whose main focus in life was studying the Kabbalah and becoming closer in his relationship with God. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel reflects back to his stay within a Nazi Concentration Camp in hopes that by sharing his experiences, he could not only educate the world on the ugliness known as the Holocaust, but also to remind people that by remembering one atrocity, the next one can potentially be avoided. The holocaust was the persecution and murder of approximately six million Jew’s by Aldolf Hitler’s Nazi army between 1933 and 1945. Overall, the memoir shows
In Amsterdam, she witnessed Jews being drowned. They would drive them into rivers. Theresa said: “I saw with my own two eyes, one hundred and twenty Jews killed.” Another incident was that one day she was going to this field, and what she found was very tragic; she saw Jews basically forced to stand in a field and allow themselves to be shot. What made her want to help is the fact that Jewish mothers cried for their babies, and she just thought of what it would be like because she had children of her own. Eva Fogelman describes, “Weerstra believed this preposterous account readily enough. She had witnessed Nazi inhumanity. She was aware.”
Eile Wiesel was born in Transalvanya. He was asked many times to write about his experinces in the Holocaust. He waited ten years after he was freed from Buchenwald, he didn't want to write a hate-filled account of his experince. He recived the Noble Prize for Night in 1992. He lives in the United states and teaches at Boston University.
Frank Foley was remembered for all the things he had done to save The Jews. He help the Jews from being prosecution and killed. Frank forced visas and passports to set Jews out of the camps. He forced fake papers, risas, and passports to enable him to get Jews to safety. Frank Foley was brave to save all these Jews.
In the end, Frank Foley saved thousands of Jews. He was very successful. He was a good man.