Survivors of the Holocaust

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Many Holocaust survivors had to suffer through concentration camps and endure the pain of never seeing their loved ones ever again. There are survivors that never went through any concentration camps. Some of the survivors were known as hidden children because they were taken into homes were Nazis could not find them. Others were put into labor camps were strictly put to work, and if you couldn’t work anymore, you were killed. There were also death trains that some jumped out of and escaped from because if you stayed on the train,you were not going to survive. Some people joined armies of various countries that Hitler planned to invade and when they surrendered to Hitler’s army they were taken to prisoner of war camps. Survivors have put their story on TV and the internet so they can share with everybody what not only them but most Jewish people during the Holocaust went through. Eva Galler was a death train escapee. Her story tells of Eva and her family being put on a train to be brought to a death camp where everyone still on the train would die. Her father told her to jump through the window that others were jumping through. Even when they jumped, they still weren’t safe. There were Nazis shooting the people once they were on the ground after they jumped. Eva landed in a snowbank and when the gunshots could not be heard anymore, she checked on her brother and sister who had also jumped. She found them dead. Eva headed back to her home where she was taken in by someone in the neighborhood. The woman was afraid of hiding a Jewish person so Eva had to leave. She then travelled from train station to train station to get farther away from anyone who would recognize her. She found herself at a place where German farmers pick up work... ... middle of paper ... ... needed to send men to work on it. Joseph was chosen to work on the highway. They were not given much food in the labor camp where they worked and slept in barns with 70-80 people in them together. Joseph knew two German Jewish people at the camp and he survived because of them. One was a doctor at the camp so Joseph was taken to the infirmary where he was bandaged up and given a train ticket to go home by the two Germans. That’s how Joseph Sher survived his 9 months in that labor camp. All of these survivors told their story to help show people how horrible the Holocaust was for the Jewish people. It was even more awful for some Holocaust survivors who never saw any of their loved ones ever again. It didn’t matter if you were in a labor camp, concentration camp, prisoner of war camp, or if you were a hidden child every victim of the Holocaust shared the same pain.

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