Holocaust Survivor

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events in history. Between history class, English class, and outside in the everyday world, I have learned so much about it. From doing this project and reading Night I learned about it on a more personal level. In history we always learn the unbiased facts about the events. Specifically, from this project, I learned that not every Jew ended up in a concentration camp. In fact, some escaped and lived their lives under cover as different people if they could get a hold of false papers. I also learned that people who would take in escaped Jews would be killed or maybe even sent to a death camp themselves even if they weren't Jews. There is so much more you can learn when the information doesn't just come out of a textbook.

In researching my Holocaust survivor, I learned that she had escaped from a train headed to a death camp. When she had no where to go she resorted to a few people's houses that she'd done favors for in the past. They were reluctant to take her in, if at all. If they did take her in she would be kicked out within a day, maybe even hours, to go and fend for herself again. It's amazing how someone could do something like that to a seventeen year old girl. This is one example of what "opened my eyes" to man's inhumanity to man in the Holocaust. Another example is in the book Night. Elie's father falls very ill and is sick in bed for his final days. There are a few men next to him who are in basically the same situation, and they are beating him up and stealing his bread. Also, in the world, there are plenty of examples of people's inhumanity to each other. Between bullying and serial killers, people can be more than cruel to others for little to no reason at all.

Hope and faith played a huge role in my Holocaust survivor's life. When she was a baby, a famous Rabbi had stayed at her house after a fire broke out in his own home. While

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