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  • Essay / Holocaust Survivors - 825

    Many Holocaust survivors had to suffer in concentration camps and endure the pain of never seeing their loved ones again. There are survivors who have never been through any concentration camp. Some of the survivors were known as hidden children because they were taken to homes where the Nazis were unable to find them. Others were sent to labor camps and were strictly put to work, and if you could no longer work, you were killed. There were also death trains some of which jumped off and escaped because if you stayed on the train you weren't going to survive. Some people joined the 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. The survivors broadcast their story on television and the Internet so that they could share with everyone what not only they, but also most Jews, experienced during the Holocaust. Eva Galler was an escapee from the death train. Her story goes that Eva and her family were put on a train to be taken to a death camp where everyone still on the train would die. His father told him to jump out of the window that others were jumping out of. Even when they jumped, they still weren't safe. Nazis were shooting people once they were on the ground after jumping. Eva landed in a snowbank and when the gunshots were no longer heard, she checked on her brother and sister who had also jumped. She found them dead. Eva returned home where she was taken in by someone from the neighborhood. The woman was afraid of hiding a Jew, so Eva had to leave. She then traveled from station to station to get away from anyone who might recognize her. She found herself in a place where German farmers were getting work... middle of paper ... men had to be sent to work there. Joseph was chosen to work on the road. They weren't given much food in the labor camp where they worked and slept in barns with 70 to 80 people together. Joseph knew two German Jews at the camp and he survived thanks to them. One of them being a doctor at the camp, Joseph was taken to the infirmary where the two Germans gave him a train ticket to return home. This is how Joseph Sher survived his 9 months in this work camp. All of these survivors told their stories to show people how horrible the Holocaust was for the Jewish people. It was even more horrible for some Holocaust survivors who never saw any of their loved ones again. It doesn't matter if you were in a labor camp, a concentration camp, a prisoner of war camp or if you were a hidden child, all victims of the Holocaust shared the same pain..