Return to Resistance | Witnesses Lucille E. Story of Liberation We stayed in this camp until the end of March 1945. Then they suddenly put us in trucks. We got off the trucks and they made us walk. We really didn’t walk very well at that time. I leaned on Ellie, Ellie leaned on Sabina….
Return to Survivors | Witnesses Lucille E. Excerpts STORY: Single lines So it’s relative, if you hurt, you hurt differently than the other person. STORY: Sambor, her parents home town in Poland My family was there for; my mother was born there, my grandmother was born there, her mother before her was born nearby. So…
Return to Survivors | Witnesses Helen L. Excerpts STORY: Single lines Well, it’s been a few years since I thought about this or tried not to, at any rate. STORY: Life in her hometown I had two younger sisters and there are four of us left, one brother out of four and two sisters and…
|| Return to The Holocaust–A Guide for Pennsylvania Teachers || Resisters, Rescuers, and Bystanders Synopsis The “Jewish reaction patterns” to a threat have taken five forms: armed resistance, alleviation, evasion, paralysis, and compliance. During the Holocaust, all five were a response to various incidents at various times. Jews, under duress, assisted the Nazi terror by…
Return to Resistance | Witnesses Escapees from Auschwitz “On April 7, 1944, two Slovakian Jews, twenty-six-year-old Alfred Weczler and twenty-year-old Rudolf Vrba, escaped from Auschwitz. They provided the first eyewitness account of the concentration and extermination camp to the western world, an account that set off the chain of events that led to the Nuremberg…