Psychological Impacts of the Holocaust

By: Ashley Miller 8th hour

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“Men and women in rags, and barely able to move from starvation and typhus lay in their straw bunks in every state of filth and degradation. The dead and dying could not be distinguished. Men and women collapsed as they walked and fell dead”(sandrawilliams.org)

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“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.”

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• Children to DP(displacement persons camps)•250,000 refugees in Europe• Sent to places such as U.S, Palestine, France, Poland or South Africa•Without legal papers you were deported •No where to return to; homes taken over

•Returned to Europe; attacked by Polish•Accused of abducting Christian children and using blood for ritual purposes•Polish feared people would reclaim their homes• Not many Jewish families still remained in Europe

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“The Polish masses were consumed with hatred, and many were determined to complete the job Hitler failed to accomplish: the total extermination of the Jews.”

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•June 4th 1946, 42 Jew survivors in Kielce were shot, stoned, slashed with axes, or other wise murdered (Greenfeld 58).

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The survivors of the Holocaust continued their lives by finding work, such as becoming writers and workers in factories.

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"... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again." - Anne Frank

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There are very little survivors still alive today, but those who are alive are very changed and affected by the Holocaust. Hopefully the live on telling their stories and the events that they endured.

Bibliography

Greenfeld, Howard. After the Holcaust. New York: Greenwillow, 2001. Print.

“Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors”. Jews For Jesus. Web. 08 Dec. 2009. Updated 2009. Moore, Lisa. Elie Wiesel Surviving the Holocaust, Speaking Out Against Genocide (Holocaust Heros and Nazi Criminls). New York: Enslow, 2005. Print. “Survivors.” Jewish Virtual Library. Web 08 Dec. 2009. Updated 2008.

S. Williams, Sandra. “Impact of the Holocaust.” Web. 08 Dec. 2009. Updated 2009.