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The Holocaust, Hannah Hart | 8 Eppolito | Flood Brook Union School
Surviving the Holocaust Many were killed, many starved, but a few lucky ones survived through the tragedy
-What happened to the Jewish Survivals after the holocaust, and what did they do to survive?
-The Jewish survived in many different ways but mainly by hiding. After the holocaust many Jews remembered every
day of their life and could not forget what had happened to them or their families.
Nazi Swastika
The star of David so that every Jewish can be identified. Jewish studies
March 2010 Flood Brook Union School
8 E p p o l i t o F l o o d b r o o k U n i o n S c h o o l
“Over one million children under the age of sixteen died in the Holocaust - plucked from their homes and stripped of their childhoods, they lived and died during the dark years of the Holocaust and were victims of the Nazi regime”
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WHAT SURVIVORS DID TO SURVIVE
The Holocaust is the name for the Nazis’
systematic genocide of six million Jews during
world war two. The Nazis called this genocide
“The Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Not
only did the race policy hit the Jews, and an
additional 4 mill ion gypsies along with
homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anti-socials,
criminals and physically and psychologically
disabled. Approximately 1,200,000 people were
looking for homes at the end of the holocaust. But
how did all those people survive the tragic?
Many people hid in country-sides, or in attics.
Many parents hid their children from the Nazi’s,
some parents even gave the kids to non-Jewish
people who would take them in.
“They would go into the country-side and live
in the woods and try to find a way to survive.”
This is an exert from “Alicia: My Story.” The
exert is saying that she and her family would go
into the country-side and hide there until the war
was over. She also talks about all the different
things she went through, like being separated from
her family and being brought out of the
concentration camps by pretending she was dead.
Many survivors had to take risks, and know
that there was a possibility that they could be
found and killed by the Nazis.
Many kids were separated from their families.
Some parents sent their kids away, so that they
didn’t have to deal with watching them get killed.
M a n y
p a r e n t s
h a d t o
deal with
“ g i v i n g
a w a y ”
t h e i r
children to
complete strangers.
“Because an entire family could seldom find a hiding
place, parents were confronted with the horrible necessity of
"giving away" their children to complete strangers. They did
so while facing a dismal future, uncertain if they would ever
see their children again in an "after-the-war" era.”
Many children had to go with strangers in
order to stay alive. This isn’t what the parents
wanted to do, but they felt they had to do it. They
had to save their kids no matter what.
Surviving the Holocaust
An attic where Jews hid.
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Each survivor has their own stories. Many are alike
but some are different in ways.
One story was Alicia: My Story. Alicia went
through some pretty rough things. She was in Chortkov
Prison for many months and than a man found her in a
pile of dead bodies and brought her back to a local
ghetto. There for weeks she battled Typhoid, but
eventually recovered.
Alicia also escaped many death marches with the
help of a friend. She reunited with her mother in
Buczacz, which was a ghetto where her family used to
live. Alicia went through many other things along with
her mother, her only family member left.
There are many other stories about how survivors
dealt with the holocaust.
Jeannine Burk was a hidden child. She lived in a
women’s house for two years.
“My life as a hidden child was...how can I say it...I had no
toys. The only fresh air I got was when I was allowed to go in the
backyard. I made up imaginary friends because I had no one to
play with. I do not remember being hugged and kissed. That was
my life for two years.”
For two years Jeannine Burk lived with a women
who she didn’t know the name of, and was never
treated like a normal child. No hugs or kisses, and no
toys. She wanted to be a normal child. She wanted to
be with her father. Jeannine Burk blamed Germany for
all of this. She said at the end
“People ask me, can I forgive? I can't. I cannot forgive. I
blame the German people a great deal because I feel they were
passive. They turned away.”
Jeannine will never forgive Germany. That goes for
many other survivors too.
Isak Borenstein had many things happen to him
during the war. When the Germans went to Poland. He
ran to Krasnodar in Russia. He worked as a carpenter
for many years.
In 1944 he joined the Russian army and was sent
near Kremenchug. He was than caught by Germans
who killed 33 Jews. The Germans took the rest of them
to a prisoner-of-war camp. There Isak escaped.
Isak went through many rough things after that. He
was tortured, along with many other things.
Eva Galler was born in Poland. When she was
being deported to Belzec camp, Eva escaped along with
her brother and sister. An SS trop shot at them, but Eva
stayed alive while her brother and sister had gotten
shot.
Eva than went to live with a fried. She was hid
behind a cedar-robe. Eva than headed to a different
family who lived near the woods. Eva worked on a farm
for many years.
These stories all had something in common. They
all hid eventually during the war. They were all very
different too. Im sure all these people went through
their own tragedies. But the important thing is that they
stayed alive. Somehow they fought against the sickness,
and starvation and stayed alive.
Survivors Stories
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We never hear what happened to
the survivors after the holocaust. We
only hear how difficult it was to survive,
what everyone went through, and all of
that. But what happens to people after
the holocaust?
Many survivors suffered guilt. How
did they survive well so many others
hadn’t? Guilt was the main effect that
almost all survivors had. They felt
guilty for their families and friends
deaths. It wasn’t their fault but yet they
felt that since their families had died
they should have also.
Another symptom is anxieties and
agitations. That includes inner tensions,
and feelings of valuelessness. They are
also sometimes afraid to be alone.
Which can be expected because they
went through so much.
Many survivors remember the
smell of the gas chambers, the brutal
killing, of a single individual, or simply
separation from family members. The
survivor can feel stuck in time, unable
to move beyond it. They remember
these feelings when ever something
strikes it.
Many survivors resent help that is
offered because it is a sign of weakness.
They want to be strong. They couldn’t
do anything during the holocaust so
they want to be able to do something
on their own now. Many survivors feel
this way. It is one of the most common
symptoms.
The most common effects are
resenting help and guiltiness.
It is difficult for the survivors. They
deal with the remembrance everyday of
their lives. They struggle to leave their
past behind them. Most survivors don’t
want to talk about The Holocaust.
They fear that they we will remember
the horrible awful things they went
through.
What Happened to the Survivors After the Holocaust?
Jewish civilians Rounded up in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 A women speaking about the Holocaust
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So what happened to the
Je w i s h s u r v i v a l s o f t h e
holocaust? And what did they do
to survive during the holocaust?
Many Jews had to hide from
Nazis. Like I said before, they
hid in attics and in strangers
homes. Kids stayed with families
they barely knew, and pretended
to be of German origin. If the
kids had got caught not only
them, but the German families
would also be prosecuted and
more than likely killed. Everyday
got harder and harder for them.
They had to impersonate being
a German child. That involved
dressing and acting differently,
a n d l e a r n i n g G e r m a n
responsibilities.
After the Holocaust was over
many survivors went to America.
They tried to find the rest of
their families with the help of
many American people. The
survivors went through tragedies.
They had learned a family
member died, or something
horrific. Many survivors not only
went through tragedies with
death but they went through
rough patches in their physical
and mental health. Many
surviors had break downs, after
learning a friend or family
member had died. Many are
afraid they might go through
something like the holocaust
again.
Most surviors don’t like
talking about what they went
through because it brings up
such horrible memories, and
they just don’t want to relive it
again.
Surviving The Holocaust
A Ghetto where many Jews had livedAdolf Hitler, who was the leader of the
Holocaust
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