The Ve’lodrome d’Hiver Roundup refers to the period of time when French police (Nazi directed) rounded up 11,000 people with a Jewish background, and put them in a winter, and bike stadium , called Ve’lodrome d’Hiv. Within one week the number of Jewish people stored there went from 11,000 to 13,000, 4,000 of them being children. The people being held were left extremely crowded, with almost no food, water, or sanitary rooms. The Jews were actually warned months before the arrests, but since most arrests usually targeted Jewish men, the women and children did not go into hiding. Children between the ages of 2 and 16 were arrested with their mothers. The week following these arrests the Jews were taken to concentration camps and were killed in horrific ways. Many of them ended up being sent to Auschwitz, one of the most well-known death camps. Others were sent to the camps Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande, and their heads were shaved and they were being tested for many things, many died in extremely gruesome ways. By …show more content…
She was 11 years old when the Nazis invaded France. She had two sisters. On July 12, soldiers banged heavily on their door, pointed guns at their heads, and forced them to leave immediately. She and her family walked for miles to where Jews were being packed on trucks. She was packed on and sent to a little arena with no food or water for several days, and the smell was horrific. Their father convinced a French guard to let their whole family stay together because their mother was ill from tuberculosis. Days later, her and her younger sister convinced French guard to let them go to the hospital with their mother. That was the last time they ever saw their father and older sister. At the hospital they convinced another guard to let them go outside, where their grandparents picked them up and put them into hiding for years, sometimes going for days without food.
The prisoners are starved, shaved, beaten, and treated as “filthy dogs,” all while working forcedly throughout the day. Eliezer and Shlomo had to move heavy stones to wagons without having strength left. Family members were separated just because they didn’t fit the age range. Many just died because they could not last anymore, like Wiesel’s father. There was this thing called selection.
She was arrested at 11 years old. Cecil was one of three girls born in to a polish family who moved to France. They immediately knew when the Nazis had occupied Paris because she was required to wear a star, marking her as a jew. 3:00 am cecil and her family awoken to officers banging on their front door. When they answer the door guns were pointed at them and they were forced to leave their home.
The gradual restriction of freedoms and systematic dehumanizing of the Jews is described. The formation of the ghettos where the Jews were forced to reside and then eventually how they were forced to board cattle cars and depart for the concentration camp. Completed Dec 20,
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.
An article was soon violated when Chlomo Wiesel announced, “I have terrible news. Deportation.” After the announcement from Eliezer’s father, Hungarian polices started shouting, “All Jews outside! Hurry! The time’s come now…You’ve got to leave all this…” After forced from their homes, they were sent to experience brutality at Auschwitz/Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald.
It all started in late August of 1942 Alice Van Damme witnessed Jews being rounded up and put on trucks near the railway station in her hometown, Antwerp. During the chaos, she heard someone talk about a man by the name of Doctor Content. She had asked her parents if she could contact this man and after they said it was fine she got in touch with the man. She was put in contact with the Sobolski family. The father had been deported already so all that was left was Mrs. Sobolski, her mother-in-law and her two children, Marcel who was four and Johnny, who was a year and a half old.
The events that are being told reveal the extreme and inhumane actions the concentration camps brought onto the European Jews during World War Two. Pushed to the brink of death, many of the Jewish prisoners hung onto what family they had left after being separated. [An SS came toward us wielding a club. He commanded: “Men to the left! Women to the right!”
About half of the 1,500 detainees permitted to live in the camp attacked the camp ordnance after three Jews walked up to the two guards at the back entryway and stabbed them with their
so she had to learn. Moreover, I couldn’t relate to what my great grandmother went through. After hearing this I read articles about child soldiers. I came across two articles “Armed & Underaged” by Jeffrey Gettleman plus “The Charge: Genocide” by Lydia Polgreen. I can tell justice will never be done for anyone in the late 1900’s through the early 2000’s.
In Night one of the ways that the Jews were dehumanized was by abuse. There were beatings, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt.” (Wiesel, 57) “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs.
The prisoners, which consisted of Mainly Jew’s, but also homosexuals, gypsies, and Jehovah Witnesses were all given a number. The number was your name in these camps. You were no longer identified as a person but as just another object with a serial number. Often the Nazi’s would do selections, where they would pick apart the healthy from the weak. If you passed the selection you were to go back to what you had been doing in the camp.
Site #1: Rosa Marie Burger’s Holocaust Story In Rosa Marie Burger’s story, she accounts for the Kristallnacht and the difficulties that the Jews in her village went through to try to keep safe from the terrors of the Nazis. She tells of how Jews would come to her mother so that they could learn English in hopes that they might be able to get a sponsor in America so they can escape the looming war. During Kristallnacht, or the Night of broken Glass, she tells of several trucks of Nazis coming and using axes to break down doors and destroy everything worth value in the homes, she also recalls a woman who fled into the night with her son and only wearing her nightgown and caught pneumonia and didn’t survive. She also told of how the Nazis used
Concentration camps were established throughout Europe, with Auschwitz being the most infamous, where over one million Jews were murdered. Jews were imprisoned in these camps against their will and subjected to cruel treatment, including torture, medical research, and forced labour. The goal was to break down their spirits and eventually permanently get rid of them. The concentration camps were the sites of unspeakable cruelty and horror, where countless Jews lost their lives. The concentration camps serve as a traumatic constant reminder of the terrible atrocities committed during the Holocaust and the consequences of unchecked hatred and
She did everything in her power to keep the children safe. She even went out of her way to search the Riversaltes internment camp for any children that she could take in. There were multiple instances where she made excuses for them, and hid children from the authorities. She was caught by the Nazis, but the kids were safe, somewhere else. She ended up being detained by the Nazis in January 1943.
As the days went by the german came by and knocked on their house and as everyone got bags so that they can take with them the germans came into their house and told them that they had 5 minutes to grab what they needed and and Anne Frank left her diary behind so in case someone would find it and read it and they all were sent to Auschwitz,Anne and Margot died of a disease that they had in the concentration