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Connolly, Kate. "Tales from Auschwitz: Survivor Stories." The Guardian. Guardian News and
Irene Fogel Weiss was a young girl who was taken from her home to a concentration
camp in Poland. Most older women and young girls were killed moments after arriving at
a concentration camp. Luckily Irene Fogel Weiss was seen as older than she actually was,
and she passed the first inspection. One of the first memories Weiss has in the camp was
the unsuspecting faces of the women and children being lead right to the fire of the
crematorium.
Mostly everybody was completely unaware of Auschwitz and what was going on there.
They were in for a shock when they lived the horrors that occurred behind the gates of
Auschwitz. Weiss’ family was torn apart immediately with some going one way and
Many families found themselves being torn apart like Weiss’. For most the stories of the
mass burnings in the crematorium will haunt them forever. The brutality they faced and
the huge odds against them to survive is a major thing that will stay with Weiss.
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"Introduction to the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States
The Holocaust is one of the most tragic and horrifying events that has ever occurred. The
Holocaust impacted so many families, and most will never know the true horrors that
happened in the concentration camps. Even without getting in the mind of someone in the
The word Holocaust means “sacrifice by fire” and most of the ones who died were later
burned in the crematoriums. It wasn’t just Jews who were targeted but other groups as
well were murdered by the Nazis. The Holocaust is the largest mass murdering of a
The Nazis spread out every where through Europe capturing as many Jews as they could
trying to annihilate the entire population. The Final Solution is what Adolf Hitler called
his plan to get rid of the Jews. The Final Solution was never avoided rather than stopped.
"Jakob Blankitny." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. N.p., n.d. Web.
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talks about his experience starting from age 16 to his liberation. Being held in Auschwitz
made him a different person and he talks a lot about the decisions he made in the camps
that he might not have made outside. The camp started making decisions for him.
Blankitny says he was scarred by the screams he hears upon arriving at Auschwitz, those
screams coming from the gas chambers and the families being split up and murdered. He
remembers how many died just after arriving at the camp by being gassed and thrown
into the fire of the crematorium. Blankitny remembers the pain that fire left in him when
it devoured his mother and sister. The image of the large crematoria that could be seen
Blankitny’s survival is a miracle in his mind as every night it seemed five of his
companions were headed to the crematorium. Of all the people from his town in Poland
only 42 survived. Blankitny believes it was different moments that helped him keep
going and gave him the increasing will to survive. He was the only one from his large
Leshan, Bruce. "Auschwitz Survivor Relives Experiences Every Week." USA Today. Gannett
Marty Weiss was a 15-year-old Jewish boy who was taken from his home to the
Auschwitz death camp during WWII. He was taken from his childhood home in
Czechoslovakia to a camp in Ukraine and later to Auschwitz. A memory that stuck with
him was the families trying desperately to stay together before they were split apart and
taken away.
This story cannot be duplicated as Marty Weiss and his life is a very unique one. Weiss
recalls one of the most traumatic experiences he had during the Holocaust was the giant
pit he had seen in the camp. The pit had open flames shooting out of the hole and burning
in them were bodies. The reason for the pit was because the crematorium was too full of
burning people.
Marty Weiss wouldn’t talk about his experiences in the Holocaust until many years later
when he volunteered at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Weiss’ experience was too
much to talk about regularly and he thinks back on it now as terrible. Despite the horrors
Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, a Division of Farrar, Straus
Elie Wiesel was a young boy whose town was invaded by the always advancing Nazi
army. His family was herded up, along with the rest from their Jewish town, and sent to
the Auschwitz death camp. When they arrived the first sign of trouble was the barbed
wire and fences surrounding them for miles. Then it was the smoke and the smell of
burning people.
The smoke from the huge crematorium gathered around them. When Wiesel peered into
the crematoria all his hope was gone. The Nazis were burning babies in the fire, just
throwing them in like it was nothing. The image of the babies being burned is etched in
Wiesel bounced around from camp to camp and job to job, continuously being beaten and
pushed around. Eventually everyone in his camp had to march for hours to another camp
to avoid the approaching American army. The march became a sprint and few made it,
their fatigue was too much. When they finally reached the next camp, they were liberated