Imagine, at the young age of eight years old, your regular life was suddenly cut short.. You and your family are taken and forced to live in a small room- your new home. There you do everything to dodge death. However, this is not a story, it’s a reality. This is the sad reality that Marcel Drimer had to encounter (“Drimer”). Approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, along with millions more that suffered. By studying the experiences of the Holocaust victims, we can learn how physical and mental strength impacted their story. During the Holocaust hundreds of laws were put into place, causing the suffering of millions, in Marcel’s case, the forced relocation to ghettos had impacted him the most. Summer, 1943, Germans began…show more content… Thus, the SS had taken her away. After a close call, Marcel’s father decided to give his family to the Swawinski family. The family stayed there until their ghetto was liberated (“Escape from the Ghetto”). August 1944, the Drohobycz ghetto was reconquered by the Soviet army, and liberated the family. However, due to the lack of food Marcel had been deprived of both hunger and physical condition. As a result, Marcel’s legs could no longer support his body, therefore Marcel had to relearn to walk (“Drimer”). Yet, this did not break Marcel, nor prevent him from building a stable life after the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, Marcel moved to Wroclaw in order to complete school. He graduated from an engineering college. In 1966 he moved to the USA, this is where he met his wife Ania Drimer. Like Marcel, she was also a Holocaust survivor. They settled down, had a child, and would give their time to volunteering at the Holocaust Memorial Museum (“Drimer”). Understanding the atrocities victims of the Holocaust faced, can give us a deeper appreciation for both mental and physical
