His family was lucky since most of the Jewish families were torn from their homes and towns and thrown onto the streets of the ghettos. ... They were told that each of them was allowed to bring "a backpack, some food, a few items of clothes. ...
(Rogasky 53) The arrival at the concentration camp was horrible, families were torn apart and people were screaming at the loss of their children. ... Now their clothes were taken away as well. ... Immediately after given clothes they were given numbers, which were tattooed in blue on their left forearm. ...
Someone may judge another about the clothes they are wearing or how they act without really knowing why the other does this, so basically they are making an assumption. ... One ever feels his two-ness,-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder" (DuBois 2). ...
Extreme trauma was imposed on Jews who were victims of the most massive executions in history, known as the Holocaust. Yet half a century after the war, the Holocausts still manages to make its' existence felt on survivors and their families. World War II ended on May 8th of 1945 in Europe, but those who survived found it difficult to go back to a normal life, as they did not even remember what that life had even been like, and some did not even find a reason to move on or a point to living itself. By then, 6 million of the Jewish population had been wiped out, and only 200,000 survived. ...
Located thirty-seven miles west of Krakow, Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were killed and worked. This camp , out of all the rest tortured the most people. At the camp there was a place called the "Black Wall," this was where the people were executed . In March of 1941, there was another...
