Dora Apsan Sorell: Annotated Bibliography For Holocaust Survivor

The article, “Teens Against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis, describes Ben Kamm, a Jewish boy, and his fight against war and the prejudice Nazis had for the Jewish people. The article describes, “One of the darkest and most evil chapters in history- the Holocaust.” Ben Kamm and his family lived in Warsaw, Poland in the 1920’s. “Germany had been struggling since 1918 when it was defeated in WW1.” Adolf Hitler was planning on annihilating all the Jews in Europe.

Also, it was rather uncommon that a jew survived the mass genocide known as the Holocaust, let alone tell their story. Marion Blumenthal-Lazan has done both of these. Thousands of people know of her story, and shall it be known that prejudice and discrimination are dangerous inhumane acts.

The Truth About Many Jews Ellie Wiesel once said, “Without Passion, without haste.” The people in this true story were all treated like they were so much less than everyone else in the world. None of them had names that they went by anymore they just went by being called stupid Jews by the people who ran the camps. The things that had happened to these people were so unbelieveable. Millions of Jews were forced to cut their hair and were compared to dogs, or even sometimes called dogs.

During this time Jews were imprisoned in “ghettos”, dirty, cramped, awful torture, death, and work camps where thousands were killed everyday, including children (Heilke). Irena Sendler was a young woman with a fearless outlook on life. She saved over 2,500 Jewish children out of the ghetto, risking her life (Mazzeo). She could have been killed for her actions, but continued to save others.

Nazi soldiers banged on the two sisters’ door, pointed guns at their head and made them walk for miles before they even reached a truck depot just to be loaded up like cattle along with thousands of other Jewish people and their families to be taken to a Paris sports stadium. Cecile recalled them being without food and water for several days and the horrific smell that lingered through the stadium. You may ask how Cecile escaped and lives to tell the story. Two days after Cecile and her family arrived at the stadium they were allowed to leave and go to a French hospital with their mother who was ill with tuberculosis, t hat was also the last time Cecile, her sister and mother saw her father and older sister. While waiting at the hospital, Cecile and her sister talked a French guard into letting them leave the hospital.

The Holocaust is taught in schools all around the world but, with the exception of Anne Frank, not many specific individuals are brought to our attention. In an event that murdered around 11 million people, only a few of those who attempted to resist the ghettoization and segregation of the Jewish are well known, but many remain in the shadows of history. Among those that have gone unnoticed, we come across Tosia Altman. It is crucial that we start recognizing the dedication and sacrifices of those that aren 't so familiar to us. Tosia Altman deserves recognition due to her strength, her passion, and most of all, her valiant work during the time of, as well as before, the Holocaust.

The memoir Boy 30529 by Felix Weinberg is a detailed and insightful account of the horrifying experiences of the author during his life prior, during and after the holocaust. What makes Felix Weinberg’s memoir so compelling is that his authentic experiences and first person narrative bring to life the atrocities of the war. Weinberg waited 69 years to tell his story, however, Boy 30529 not only tells the truth, but does so in a raw, descriptive, and heartfelt manner. The fact that he lived through the horrors is what makes this source both reliable and impactful.

Everyone who has learned about World War II should know about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was during the same period of World War II. “What is it called the Holocaust?” you may ask. The Holocaust originates from the Greek language and means “completely burnt offering to God.”

Many people have learned about the Holocaust throughout the years, but learning about it from a primary source is a whole different experience. A scary journey that turned out to be the Holocaust has been told by two individuals that survived. These two stories tell the reader what life was like and what they went through. Even though the conditions were terrible, both Eli and Lina were able to survive and break away through fear, horrendous experiences, and hope that lead them to surviving and leaving people they cared about behind.

These survivors who experienced this event, have been scarred for the rest of their life. We can listen to their stories but we can’t imagine and experienced what they have gone through. For example, Szymon Binke, Hilma Geffen, and Baker Ella, were the survivors of the Holocaust. Szymon Binke was born in 1931 in Poland, his family moved to the city after the Nazi’s invasion. Nazis deported his family to Auschwitz where his mother and sister were gassed, while, Szymon was placed in Kinder block but after sometime he ran away to meet his family in Auschwitz.

“I shall die a heroine, but you shall die like a dog.”, Mala Zimetbaum spoke these words right before her death in 1944. Mala was a victim of the Holocaust all because she was a fifteen-year-old Jewish girl. She saved so many but was sentenced to death at twenty-six. Mala Zimetbaum’s life before the Holocaust was good with her family, but when the Holocaust started her life changed forever, significantly when it ended. Preparatory to the Holocaust Mala Zimetbaum had an everyday life.

Alexis Barton Mrs. Turner English 2 Honors 4/14/22 [Title]: [Subtitle] Over 6 million Jews tragically died in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was fortunate enough to survive it. He suffered greatly and still continued his life as an educator and as an advocate for those involved in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel gave the speech “The Perils of Indifference,” and used ethos, pathos, and loaded words throughout the speech as strategies to keep the audience actively listening.

This book shows how the Holocaust should be taught and not be forgotten, due to it being a prime example of human impureness. Humans learn off trial and error, how the Jewish population was affected, decrease in moral, and the unsettled tension are prime examples of such mistakes. The Jewish population was in jeopardy, therefore other races in the world are at risk of genocide as well and must take this event as a warning of what could happen. In the Auschwitz concentration camp, there was a room filled with shoes.

It is a common assumption among numerous people in the world that the Holocaust never existed. In fact, almost fifty percent of the world population never even heard of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel helped people around the world learn about the Holocaust through his book “Night.” He wanted people to see the bravery, courage, and guilt of the Jews through his book. “Night” shows the horrific and malicious acts in the German concentration camps during the Holocaust.

In the story, Bruno fell off of his swing and hurt himself. This reminds me of when I was younger and I fell back off of my rocky backyard stairs and hit the side of my eye on a metal chair leg. It was a scary moment and I know how Bruno felt.