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1) __Eva Galler__- Eva was born in a little city in Poland called Oleszyce.She wasnt educated because back then it wasnt important for girls to be educated.Eva was finishing high school when the germans invaded her town.The germans moved the jewish people of Oleszcyce to the city of Lubaczow to be put in the ghetto. Eva was used because she had an understanding of tax books. She didnt recieve pay, she got payed in bread. The germans burned the towns synagogue, burning all the books, prayers,scrolls and everything along in it. Eva jumped from a cattle car with her brother and sister while on there way to Belzec, her brother and sister were dead.Eva wonder through the woods 32 kilometers to the next towns train station, she wondered around the station for days sleeping from bench to bench. Eva was picked by a family to work on a farm in Czechoslovakia.From Eva's whole city of about 3,000 Jewish families, just 12 people survived. I think this story is one of the least sad stories about the holocaust ive heard, she did not have to go through concentration camps or really anything the other people had to do. It is still sad that she had to be away from her family but i dont know if i would count this as a "i survived the holocaust" story. The saddest part of the story was that she was separated from her parents but most people were during the holocaust.

2) __Isak Borenstein__- Isak was from Radom, Poland he came from a big family. When the Germans invaded Poland Isak ran to Russia, He then joined the Russian army but was captured by the Germans before he had a chance to fight. Isak changed his last name from Borenstein to Broniewski so they would not find out he was jewish. Isak soon escaped while marching to a war-camp but was snitched on by a town drunk, him and 60 other jews were arrested and taken to a prison in Dnepropetrovsk.He was soon put to work in a labor camp. Since the Russian army was slowly approaching them they boarded all the jews into a train and they went off to Mauthausen. When they arrived they did a checkpoint, Isak was put into the hospital because he had typhoid.After being released from the hospital Isak was aboard a train which was stopped and an American solider came aboard and ordered all the prisoners to take the SS officers back to Linz III. This story reminds me of the novel night in some ways because of how he was on a train and in some part of the story they went through Auschwitz. Im confused on how people could "look" jewish its a religion not a race? __Ludit Barnea and Lia Huber__- Ludit Barnea and Lia Huber are identical twins born in Transylvania, they were only six years old when they were deported to Auschwitz. In Auschwitz the twins were put through many infamous medical experiments by Dr. Mengele. One day as Dr. Mengele was performing an experiment on the twins there mother comes into the shack and begs him to stop, he injects her with a concoction which causes her permanent deafness. In 1945 the girls and their mother were liberated by the red army and returned to Transylvania. I think its kind of strange that there was a special block that was made for only twins. What made Dr. Mengele so attracted to try experiments on twins. __Eliezer__- Elie is a 14-16 year old jewish boy going through the holocaust with his family, he and his father got separated from his mother and sister at the after being taken from the ghetto. The only person he has is his father and he will do anything to stay with him.Elie doesnt just look after himself he takes care of his older father who is much weaker than him and cannot fend for himself. __Elie's Father__- Elie's father is an older jewish man that relys on his son to make sure he survives, we dont see much about his father except that through the story he gets worse and worse to the point of almost dying. __Moshe The Beadle__- Moshe The Beadle wasnt one of the main characters but he was the one who warned everyone of the Nazi's but no one believed him. I'm sure everyone regrets that now, he seemed crazy at the time but he really knew what he was talking about. __Auschwitz__- This is a photo of the gates to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. This location is never important because it was known as the death camp, It was one of siz extermination camps but it was also a labor camp where they worked the jews till they were dead. This camp symbolizes the Holocaust itself.

Buchenwald- When Elie's cattle car arrived in Buchenwald only 12 jews survived the long ride .It was the last concentration camp that Elie and his father were together in. His father dies of physical abuse, Elie survives and the camp gets liberated on April 11, 1945. The Ghetto- The ghetto was the last place Elie and his whole family together, it was the first sign that the Nazi's were going to move all of the jews into some type of area where they would be together. None of the jews had any idea how bad it would become.

Dr. Mengele- Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, Josef was well known in his town to be very intelligent.He studied medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1937 he joined the Nazi party but in 1942 he was wounded at the Russian front and was pronounced unfit to fight in war, he was sent to Auschwitz. Mengele was amazed by twins, mostly identical twins he would draw blood from them. After Mengele would experiment on the twins he would kill them. He once supervised an operation which two twins were sewn together to create a siames twins. Mengele would inject chemicals into the eyes of children in an attempt to change their eye colors. No one will ever know everything about his guesome work because he had it shipped out and destroyed. Night- The novel night is a true story of the struggles Elie Wiesel and his father went through while going through the holocaust. In Sighet, Romania a twelve year old Elie spends most of his time focusing on his religion with his instructor, Moshe the Beadle. One day Moshe returns from a trip he had took and warns everyone about the Nazi's coming to kill all the jews, no one believed him. That spring the Nazi's start to load up the jews inside of cattle cars and ship them off to the auschwitz-birkenau complex. The jews are questioned to decide if they were to be put to work or killed, Elie and his father lie about there age so that they would be deported to Auschwitz. Elie rebels against god for letting such horrible actions take place. It is an everyday struggle for Elie and his father to remain healthy and stay apart of the working force. After three weeks they are moved to Buna, a factory in the Auschwitz complex, they are put through another selection. Elie's father almost doesnt make it but passes a second selection to remain. Elie just have surgery on his foot, before he can heal they evacuate the camp because the Russians are moving closer to the camp. The jews are forced to run over 42 miles in the freezing/snowy weather to Gleiwitz. Three days later living off only snow they are forced to go on a ten day cattle car ride to Buchenwald, only 12 jews survived the travel. Elie falls asleep to find that his father had been taken away because he had finally died, In April American forces liberated the camp. Elie Wiesel- Elie was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now Romania. He and his family were deported to Germany during World War 2. Where his parents and little sister were killed. Elie survived liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 by American troops, he was taken to Paris where he worked at a journalist. In 1958 Elie published his first book " La Nuit".Since then he has authorized nearly thirty books.Wiesel now lives in New York and a United States Citizen. He has been a visiting scholar at Yale University and a Professor of Judaic studies at the city college of New York.

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