HEY EVERYONE! So, in Rosemarie's post, (I believe the first one?) she said "I remember learning about the Holocaust, and I am pretty sure some of the women and children got separated from the men, based on how well they would be able to work at the camps." That inspired me to write about the seperation of families at concentration camps during the Holocaust. So, here we go.
Wiesel and his family were sent to one of the, if not the most, infamous concentration camps. I found a personal interview with an Auschwitz survivor, Leo Schneiderman, which talks about the types of people who were immediately killed, which were the ones too weak to do labor, so all small children, disabled, women, elderly, etc. Everyone else was forced to do labor.
"And then we got out of the train. And everything went so fast: left, right, right, left. Men separated from women. Children torn from the arms of mothers. The elderly chased like cattle. The sick, the disabled were handled like packs of garbage. They were thrown in a side together with broken suitcases, with boxes. My mother ran over to me and grabbed me by the shoulders, and she told me "Leibele, I'm not going to see you no more. Take care of your brother."
How depressing is THAT? The Auschwitz concentration camp complex included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. I'm assuming the killing center is where Schneiderman's mother was brought. If you guys want me to, I can do another post that goes into more detail about Aushwitz. Let me know!
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OH GUYS I FORGOT TO PUT THE WEBSITES WHERE I FOUND MY INFORMATION! HERE THEY ARE!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_oi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189&MediaId=1174
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005189
It's horrible to know that the ones who weren't capable to do labor were put to death :[ and that is very depressing to be separated form your families and never see them again. I know that if that happened to me during the camps, I would feel that I had no reason to live my life anymore.
ReplyDeleteI know, Monica! I would be so lost without my parents and my family... I can't even begin to imagine being in such a foriegn place, where their nly objective is to KILL ME... AND being seperated from my family.
ReplyDeleteYou know that quote "You won't know what you lost until its gone", I bet they all felt like that when they found out that they were going to be separated from their family members. To make it even worse, some of them didn't even know if there family members were killed or not because they didn't have any contact with them.
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