In an interview with Holocaust survivor Berni Roth, he tells me“I fell asleep in Austria and when I woke up,I woke up in Germany, can you imagine that?” lets take a step back,the Holocaust was a period that stretched from 1933 to 1945, after Hitler came to power in 1933. The Holocaust was a state-sponsored plan to kill all European Jews led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. The word “holocaust,” comes from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned). This was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Initially, the Natzis used anti-semitic laws and bans as well as harsh and imitating propaganda to isolate Jewish individuals from the rest of the world and community. Years later, in the early 1940’s, millions of Jews were deported to ghettos or concentration camps to be killed.…show more content… Some Jews were lucky enough to escape and able to find their way to the United States or Palestine, as well as the about 25,000 Jews who escaped the ghettos and hid in Eastern European forests. The Holocaust is widely considered the most tragic example of human suffering and mass murder in modern
