07/06/2015 Juan Felipe Gómez Ordóñez English Class Performance Task Testimonies
ABRAHAM LEWNT- FORCED LABOR AND POLISH ANTISEMITISM
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| Jews at a concentration camp |
The Holocaust was a unique event in the 20th century history. It evolved between the years 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination towards the Jews, later the Jews were separated from their communities and started being persecuted, until the point they were treated as less than human beings, and started to be murdered. The Jews were exploded, forced to work, bad treated, discriminated, shooted, burned, and murdered. 8To understand more the word "Nazi", the Nazi's were some peope that at the begining's of the 1900's took fascist and Anti-Sematic principles and ideals and developed a belief that there was a need for a Master Race, which included superiority and an ethnic cleansing of anyone who did not measure up to their ideology). Later on, Nazi's started to persecute those with mental or physical disabilities, homosexuals, Jehova's witnesses, trade unionists, political opponents, poles, and Soviet prisioners of war. Now we get to the question ¿ How did Nazi's gained too much power?. It is really simple, Nazi's gained power as any political party beggins. They started with some simple series of meetings and some small talks to gain power, but when Hitler took control of the German Workers Party in 1920 everything changed. Nazi's started to have many many power in Germany until Hitler was the Fuhrer. When Hitler was the Fuhrer he made everybody to change the way they think and started to put in practice the Nazis'm around Germany. Nazi's knew how to change the thoughts of a person and also knew how to make that people contribute with them. Within some years of war, the Nazi's had two inventions. The first inventions were the concentrations camps, and this ones were the camps in which they retained all the people they persecuted. And as the second invent, they created the gas chambers. The gas chambers were some type of rooms in which the Nazi's killed the people by crowds, so they burned them alive and then they threw the ashes of the people in the air.
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| Abraham Lewent in 1936 |
Abraham Lewent was borned on July 27 in the year 1924, in the capital of Poland Warsaw. He had one sister. Abraham's grand-father owned a clothing factory and a retail stored which his father managed. He lived in a Jewish section of Warsaw and he attended to a Jewish school. Since the bombardment of Warsasw that began the 8 of September of 1933, his rich family turned to be a poor family that had nothing to eat and nothing to drink. I quote: " ...My family had little to eat. The stores had been reduced to rubble; we had no water or heat. Hunting for food, I dodged German bombs and stole seven jars of pickles from a nearby pickle factory. For several weeks my family lived on pickles and rice. Because of a lack of water, fires from the bombing raids burned out of control". At the age of 16 he was forced to work in the Warsaw- ghetto. He says he was amused because of all the people that died in front of him, and also because he watched how the city in which he was borned started to burn in flames and how it was comming to ruins. Lewent was in other seven more Nazi camps. In April 30 of 1945, Lewent was liberated in the Dachau camp.
Abraham says in his personal testimony from an interview from the "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" that he was forced to work, and that Nazi's exploded him. He says that he and his sister were obligated to take pail's of water from the Vitsula river, ( which is the most biggest river in Poland). Abraham calculated that he had to walk at least four miles to get to the river, and when he was getting back from the river he paased by a Polish neighborhood, and in this Polish neighborhoodcsome kids wen't out from their home's and took his sister and his pail of water and throw them to the floor so they needed to go again to the revier. He also expressed that when the german's had all the Polish country controlled, the other Polish citizens that were anti-semits knew that they could accomplish the goal both of them had, that was to extinguish the jews from the Earth.I quote: " Now they felt that they can do with the German help what they always wanted to do...", ( This was how the Polish anti-semitism in Poland grew). Abraham say's that he had been in several different ghettos around the WWII, and that he always saw how they died. He also says that he had been in at least seven concentration camps, in really extreme labor conditions in which he have had no water or food for many times in a week.
The interview of Abraham Lewent show us how hard was the WWII. Since he said that he was forced to work, in a ridiculous way in which he had to walk at least four miles, and that after walking this four miles some children just wen't out and threw their pale's of water we can think how horrible this could be. Also I can feel how hard it can be to walk four miles and walk again all those four miles because a kid just thow´s all the things you were carrying out. Abraham's testimony can clearly explain how the Polish anti-semitism grew in a way that his own country wanted to kill all the jews that were alive. So we can clearly see that this is a really sad and a testimony that may make us some feelings of rage and sadness, because it is really sad to know that some people of your country wants to see you dead, and rage because we actually can't think of why the Nazi's made such terrible labor conditions. With this information I felt the pain that Abraham felt, because we all know something little about WWII, but with this testimony's and details we can see in a deeply way how individuals suffered. And when I mean suffer I mean that they saw how they killed ther familes or their friends, and also how they even killed childrens. Abraham Lewent experienced some memorial years of pain and sadness. As a conclusion we can sat that if the live of a jew was a horrible mixture of pain and sadness, a concentration camp was place in which you can feel many diferent types of feelings, and still you can "hear" or "feel" how the jews died and how the jews were dying because of excesive labor conditions in which they didn't have any type of food or water, and if you got it it was just four days a week.
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| Jews massacred in concentration camps |
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/idcard.php?ModuleId=10006189
http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/what-was-the-holocaust/#.VXZkDs9_Okq
http://www.hitlerschildren.com/article/614-who-were-the-nazis
https://www.google.com.co/search?q=the+holocaust&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=799&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=All2VY_9D8-cyQTE04LIBQ&sqi=2&pjf=1&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=the+holocaust+massacres&imgrc=WeZJvKa-F2SggM%253A%3BJ96PKZOLTQl3dM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Frufusroshan.files.wordpress.com%252F2010%252F09%252Fholocaust15st2.jpg%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Frufusroshan.wordpress.com%252F%3B420%3B302
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