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…
Return to Resistance | Witnesses Numbers of Refugees That Canada (Didn’t) Accept “During the twelve years of Nazi terror, from 1933 to 1945, while the United States accepted more than 200,000 Jewish refuges; Palestine, 125,000; embattled Britain, 70,000; Argentina, 50,000; penurious Brazil, 27,000; distant China, 25,000; tiny Bolivia and Chile, 14,000 each, Canada found room…