How Jeannine Burk Changed During The Holocaust

During the Holocaust the Nazis killed 6 million Jews. The Holocaust is when hitler hated the Jews and wanted them gone. According to the book The Holocaust, “The Nazis had to think of quick killing methods which were the gas chambers, gas vans, and crematory” (Wigoder 188). Jeannine Burk is one of the kids that lived during the Holocaust. She was only three years old when the Holocaust happened. If the holocaust didn’t happen, then we wouldn’t be able to learn about the people that had been changed by the Holocaust.

Jeannine Burk was born on September 15, 1939. She has 1 brother Max and 1 sister Augusta. She is the youngest of the three children. Her parents are Isaac and Sarah. “She lived in Brussels, Belgium, after her family immigrated

from Poland in 1927”(Matyn).
Jeannine Burk never went to a concentration camp. She was in hiding like the rest of her family. Only her father went to a concentration camp but he made sure the rest of his family was safe. On the day he took Jeannine to the place she was going to hide they had to ride a train. When they got to the house and a lady opened the door it was the last time Jeannine ever saw her father. Life in hiding was hard. “Jeannine was never loved or mistreated”(Menzer). When the Nazis would parade down the street she would have to hide in the outhouse. Jeannine did not have any toys to play with. She pretty much lost her childhood because she was a Jew.
In the Fall of 1944 Jeannine’s mother came and got her.

Since she was five she could go to school. All of Jeannine’s family was back together again except for their dad. They also waited for him to come home. They found out later he was exterminated by the Nazis. “After the war her mother struggled to provide for they family because they were so far”(Menzer). Later her mother died of cancer. The night that she died she ask Jeannine to come over to her bed and told her that she need to be a good girl. In March of 1950, The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union had their 50th celebration and invited me and my sister. We were treated so nicely there. They gave me a new doll and my sister a new watch. A month after we got back from the US a letter came from the Savage family offered to take care of Jeannine. Jeannine’s sister said she would have a better life. The day she landed in america was on her twelfth birthday and she knew no english. She was young when she married and had two boys. Then she got divorced. In 1970 she met Maurice and he was a widower with four children. Then they got married and had six children and 4 grandchildren. In 1985 the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in Philadelphia. She thought that it was incredible. She never talked about her life during the holocaust until after that gathering. Jeannine Burk is still one of the Holocaust survivors still alive

today.
I have learned alot about the Holocaust from this child's life is really emotional. I have learned that you should never judge anybody by their size, religion, or skin color. Everybody is special no matter what they look like or think like. God loves everybody on the inside and out. I think we should do the same thing no matter what. I think that it is terrible that anybody would just want to kill people because of their religion. It is important that we be kind to all people not just certain people. God loves everybody like I said earlier. John 3:16 For God so loved the World. We should make sure that nothing like this happens again because everybody in the world is special.