Hunter Jennings Ms. Rushfeldt English, Block C February 26, 2024 The Stories of Tragedy The wrath of Hitler and the Nazis caused many to suffer and be killed leaving many stories of victims in the events of the Holocaust. Stories of deportation and camps of work and death are told, with some victims of those stories said to survive, and some killed or to die in other instances. Regardless of the fact of survival, all victims of the Holocaust share very tragic and sad stories of their experiences involving the Holocaust. A woman with the name Betty Leiter Lauchheimer, who was born in a Jewish family in 1883, as one of the 14 children in her family. Betty was a Jew and a victim of the Holocaust along with her family members. In 1903, at 20 years…show more content… Although Betty’s age was unknown at the time of her death, she is estimated to have been born in 1883 due to being married at age 20 in 1903. Maijlech Kisiel Nicki, a 24 year old man from the town of Birkenau, was forced to march out of his hometown in Birkenau in 1945. Maijlech then boarded a train heading to Germany, but was unboarded due to the tracks being blown up and was demanded to march the rest of the way. While on the way to Germany, the German soldiers decide to stop everyone in a little town to rest, where the men of Birkenau were locked in a cave so they are assured no escape. Although when the Germans came back in the morning to gather the men and continue marching, the people in the cave had suffocated due to the lack of air. Results of the incident left Maijlech, and all the other men left in the cave were…show more content… Idzia was killed in another mass execution along with 750,000 other Jews at the same camp. Helene Lebel was another victim at the time of the Holocaust. Helene was 19 years old and diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1936, then placed in a psychiatric hospital in Niedernhart. She was then annexed to Germany two years after she was diagnosed. Helene was eventually transferred to a prison in Brandenburg, Germany. Helene was killed along with almost 10,000 other people who were also sent to that same death camp. Joseph Gani, an 18-year-old boy who was a Jew, as well as a Holocaust victim, was sentenced to a camp in Birkenau. He was deported in March of 1944 out of his hometown, Preveza, Greece, and arrived at the camp, where he was selected as a slave laborer. Joseph was a slave laborer at the Birkenau camp and was assigned to a work unit that carted corpses to the crematoria. Joseph was killed at Birkenau in October 1944. There is a high possibility he was also cremated due to the fact there was a crematorium at Birkenau that the Germans used to burn the corpses of those who were also victims of the
