Holocaust Analytical Essay

The Holocaust was a horrible time for many. Before you learn about Lisl Winternitz, there is information from the Bible that is believed to foretell the Holocaust. Daniel 12:1 claims that during ‘a time of great distress’, Israel's ‘people-everyone whose name is found written in the book-will be delivered’(New International Reader's Version, Daniel 12.1). Daniel 8:24 says ‘This king will be very powerful,’ and ‘He will cause terrible destruction,’ and ‘He will destroy powerful people and even God’s holy people’(New Century Version, Daniel 8. 24). ‘God’s holy people’ would’ve been the Jews, who were killed. Daniel 7:25 says ‘Then another king will arise, more brutal than the other ten, and will destroy three of them. He will defy the Most High God, and wear down the saints [the Jews] with persecution, and try to change all laws, morals, …show more content…
Her family was considered wealthy, since her dad owned a floor-covering wholesale business. When the Germans invaded, she was only 12, but her schoolteachers spit in her face and said, “you dirty, filthy Jew!”(Storybook of Lisl Winternitz). Jews weren’t allowed to shop at certain stores at certain times. They had ration cards that had big red “J”’s on them, saying they were Jewish. This was one of many Nazi policies, which eventually led to persecution and mass murder. In December of 1941, Lisl’s brother, Peter, was deported to the Terezin ghetto. Then in June of 1942, Lisl and her parents were also deported to the Terezin. Lisl was sent to making gas masks that were used to kill people, where she remained until the end of the war. She learned that her family were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The Auschwitz Camp was one of the most successful Nazi concentration camps. Afterwards, over 80,000 Holocaust survivors relocated to the U.S. to rebuild. Nobody knows where Lisl is

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