Similarities and Differences of Survivors of Holocaust

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Similarities and Differences of Survivors of Holocaust
The Nazis specifically targeted Jewish children during world war II, who saw a dangerous, mental or physical defect. Some of these children survived and were hidden in camps or even ghettos. This period of world war II was referred to as the Holocaust. We can define the Holocaust as the period during world war II, where the Nazis killed the Jewish people. But as I have pointed out above, certain children managed to be rescued by certain groups, who later narrated their ordeal. That is, they wrote what is called memoirs.
Most of the survivors of the Holocaust underwent trauma. Trauma was a significant theme in the Holocaust. It was hard for most of these victims to move past what they saw or even went through. Some even experienced forced labor. The Jewish people were mainly made to work in harsh environments. (Daniela, 24#). Most did not manage to survive due to starvation or even becoming sick. However, despite all the cruelty that the Jewish people went through, certain heroic people came out of all that. So, heroism was another theme that featured during the Holocaust. Immediately after world war II, survivors began publishing their memoirs of what they went through. These memoirs played a significant role in that they reflected a positive vibe of the society's need to learn what happened during the Holocaust and how the victors of the war had to tell their narrative.
Similarities and differences of Survivors of Holocaust
In this context, we will look at Gilbert Michlin and Sarah Kofman, as they were then Jewish children during world war II. Both of them wrote memoirs of their experiences during the war. We will see the similarities and differences. (Gilbert 12#). In the narration of her experiences during the war, Sarah Kofman depicts the trauma of being separated from her father. He was arrested by the French police and coerced to hide. She was also separated from her mother and siblings.
You know, Gilbert Michlin underwent almost the same thing. Because both Michlin was a Jew, his father was denied a legal permanent residence permit and later was evicted and moved to Auschwitz. The Nazis despised the Jewish, and so these two families did not get peace in France during the wars. ( Sarah 4#). When one experiences can hardly forget certain things, especially when they find themselves at the center of it all. Michlin and Kofman are no exception. They narrate their experience as if it was yesterday.
One common experience they both went through during the war was the exclusion in schools. Jewish children were required to grasp from various sources not the same as their classmates who were non-Jewish. Because of them being Jews, they were given poor grades in school and were also discriminated against more than their peers. So, with time, most teachers began to adopt the beliefs and values of the Nazis that were contrary to the Jewish ways.The contradicting teachings that the Jewish children were getting made some of them defer from schools. And this wasn't all that the likes of Kofman and Michlin underwent, but also some were being mistreated physically and emotionally by other classmates in private schools. ...