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The Holocaust, ‘the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators”. Many died during this horrid epoch in history, however, some people were able to survive the horrors, whether by hiding or by managing to stay alive until their liberation. two of those people are Vladka Patel Meed and Leah Hammerstein Silverstein, both of Poland. These two women have very different survival stories although one thing that their stories have in common is taking residence in the infamous Warsaw Ghetto for a period of time. Vladka Patel Meed was an 18 year old girl when she and her family has to face the atrocities of the holocaust. born in 19211 in Warsaw, Poland, Meed was born in the center of Polish Nazi operations during the Holocaust. As Jews, she and her family were sent to live in the Warsaw Ghetto where there was ‘starvation and typhoid and hunger and [constant] terror’ conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto were terrible and inhumane although to make things less depressing, Meed ‘belonged at the time ... to the Jewish Cultural group’. While in the ghetto, Meed and other young people ‘has lectures and ... cultural events.’ After spending some time in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis in charge of the ghetto decided it was time to begin deportations, which both meed’s mother and brother were included in, although she was not. Her mother and brother were to be sent to Umschlagplatz, a place that was well known as being a poor place to be sent to, often resulting in death. In vain, meed tried to bribe an officer to keep her mother and brother, the only family she had left, from leaving. They left and her brother later sent her a note telling her that he was hung... ... middle of paper ... ...tes Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 04 May 2014. "Introduction to the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 04 May 2014. Peltel Meed, Vladka. "Describes Clandestine Cultural Activities in the Warsaw Ghetto." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 04 May 2014. Peltel Meed, Vladka. "Describes the Deportation of Her Mother and Brother from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 04 May 2014. Warsaw Tourist Office. "Praga District." WarsawTour. Official Warsaw Tourist Office, n.d. Web. 04 May 2014. "Warsaw." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 04 May 2014.

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