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A 5 page research paper that examines the stories of seven Holocaust survivors. There are people who have seen Hell. They've looked pure evil in the face, and the face that evil wore was ours. Everyday people, ordinary German citizens who had been drafted by their country's official government, set about the systemized extermination of an entire people. Today, over fifty years later, there are groups of white supremacists who say it didn't happen, and against their hatred there are still voices that tell their stories. Here are seven of those voice. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

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about the systemized extermination of an entire people. Today, over fifty years later, there are groups of white supremacists who say it didnt happen, and against their hatred there are still voices that tell their stories. Here are seven of those voices. Morris Wyszogrod was just 19 years old when the German war machine rolled over his native country of Poland. Wyszogrod was able to utilize his considerable skills as a calligrapher, typographer, and illustrator to prolong his life and, thereby, survive the Holocaust--first, in the labor camps and later in the concentration camps (Heller 521). The Germans didnt use Wyszogrods artistic skills right away. Before they realized that Wyszogrods skill could be put to their purposes, he did every sort of manual labor?from cleaning latrines to repaving runways. Wyszogrod came to the attention of a young lieutenant who was interested in his artistic talent. By making a pen from a tree branch and showing the lieutenant that he could do calligraphy, Wyszogrod was put to work making signs. "He gave me an assignment to make three main signs for each soldier?for the closet, for the bed, and for this valise" (Heller 521). This was typical of the life in the camps. Who lived, who died, who had a decent job, or was worked to death depended largely on luck and on not panicking when confronted by the Germans. For example, Elisabeth Raab had no idea what was in store for her on Easter Sunday, 1945. It was a grey day. Seven hundred and thirty women were wrapped in wet, grey blankets, were standing in the rain when the SS officers started them on a forced march (108). Raab thought that it was the end?that the march would end at Bergen-Belsen, the extermination camp. Instead, the Germans abandoned ...

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