Survivor Testimonies During The Holocaust

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Each of the survivor testimonies were tragic in there own way, but the one that was the hardest for me to get through was the story that Abraham told. I think it was bad enough that adults were getting put into these gas chambers and put to death, but to talk about these young children that were being thrown in with these adults and put to death, is sad and very heartbreaking to me. It's hard to believe that children as young as two years old were being gassed and put to death. I think the reason this survival's testimony was the hardest for me is because I have two children myself and I could not begin to imagine my own children having to go through this. The pain some of these mother's had to endure as they were watching there children being gassed is just horrific. Part of Leo's survival testimony was also very sad to listen to because there was a part where a spouse had asked about his wife and child. The soldier that had responded to the husbands question about his wife and child seemed to lack sympathy or remorse because he was like you see that chimney and that smoke, well that's your wife and daughter, there you know, dead. I don't think that soldier could have been any more colder with his response than he was. …show more content…
Various different ways by setting up concentration camps or death camps. Death camps were just that. It is where Jews were sent to be killed in great numbers. Most of them put into gas chambers that resembled shower rooms. The ones that didn't go to the gas chambers were sent to other camps. These other camps were called a variety of things like labor camps. Other ways Nazi's would kill these Jews or others being persecuted were by death by shooting, starving the Jews, or working the Jews to death, literally. I believe this was a very in-humane way to have to die and I am glad that it is still not going on

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