Warsaw was the capital of Poland, and suffered from attacks of the Germans. The german troops entered this place on September 29, 1939 after the Jewish people surrendered. After some time, the German authorities closed the Jewish schools, confiscated Jewish property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor. In October 12, 1940 the Germans announced a ghetto in Warsaw. The ghetto was enclosed by walls, which were ten feet tall. Wire was placed on the top of the walls and it was closely guarded to prevent the relation between people in the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw. Skarzysko was a labor camp. The conditions in this place were really horrible. Each day, slave laborers were took to forest to be killed. Others died from starvation and exhaustion.
Abraham Lewent was confined to the Warsaw ghetto with his family. The Germans killed his mom and sister, after that he escaped and went with his father. In 1943 he and his father were moved to Majdanek, in this place his father died. Soon after this he was sent to the Warsaw camp. This place was a Jewish city before, and when Germany attacked them, they made the place a concentration camp. So he said that German soldiers asked him in what did he know to do, and he answered him that he was good in mechanics. He did this because, someone said to him that if he said he was good at mechanics he would have a good job. But people were surprised because, he was just a little kid, how could he know? Well, he answered that he learned it at school, how could any German denied it? He said he started working in mechanics, building parts of weapons. He worked there during two months, during the day, and sometimes during the night. He said they didn’t give them enough food, he said it was very little the amount of food the Germans gave them. He said people couldn’t even exist with that food, but that somehow they survived. He was freed by United States troops.
I chose to report the testimony of Abraham because, the name of the place in which he was kept sound familiar to me. Then I realized the name was mentioned in a book I read years ago. Abraham was calm while telling the testimony but, some part of it sounded really sad, as if the memory was still really vivid. Reading his testimony made me realize, that I shouldn’t complain about the society in which we live. This is because, the story he was telling was horrible, no food and working during long days as a child is really bad. I realize that although the world in which we live has many problems, it has also many good things. I think he told the testimony to release himself from the painful memory that probably he kept for himself during many years. I think that all the things that happened during the world war II were really horrifying. Reaching the point of ignorance and of lack of humanity, in which many people got killed just for being different. Reading the testimony of this man was a way of understanding that the world has not always being as the one it is today. It was a way of learning that the although, the world nowadays has many problems, all humanity has progressed.
To conclude, his testimony allows all the readers to understand him. It helps all of us to see the world has been in worst conditions, and if humans were able to overcome them, nowadays is sure we will overcome the problems we have. It also helps us to appreciate the life we have, because sometimes we complain about all the problems, but for sure we have it better than this man had it.
Sources of Information:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?MediaId=2843 (I used this testimony)
Warsaw was the capital of Poland, and suffered from attacks of the Germans. The german troops entered this place on September 29, 1939 after the Jewish people surrendered. After some time, the German authorities closed the Jewish schools, confiscated Jewish property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor. In October 12, 1940 the Germans announced a ghetto in Warsaw. The ghetto was enclosed by walls, which were ten feet tall. Wire was placed on the top of the walls and it was closely guarded to prevent the relation between people in the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw. Skarzysko was a labor camp. The conditions in this place were really horrible. Each day, slave laborers were took to forest to be killed. Others died from starvation and exhaustion.
Abraham Lewent was confined to the Warsaw ghetto with his family. The Germans killed his mom and sister, after that he escaped and went with his father. In 1943 he and his father were moved to Majdanek, in this place his father died. Soon after this he was sent to the Warsaw camp. This place was a Jewish city before, and when Germany attacked them, they made the place a concentration camp. So he said that German soldiers asked him in what did he know to do, and he answered him that he was good in mechanics. He did this because, someone said to him that if he said he was good at mechanics he would have a good job. But people were surprised because, he was just a little kid, how could he know? Well, he answered that he learned it at school, how could any German denied it? He said he started working in mechanics, building parts of weapons. He worked there during two months, during the day, and sometimes during the night. He said they didn’t give them enough food, he said it was very little the amount of food the Germans gave them. He said people couldn’t even exist with that food, but that somehow they survived. He was freed by United States troops.
I chose to report the testimony of Abraham because, the name of the place in which he was kept sound familiar to me. Then I realized the name was mentioned in a book I read years ago. Abraham was calm while telling the testimony but, some part of it sounded really sad, as if the memory was still really vivid. Reading his testimony made me realize, that I shouldn’t complain about the society in which we live. This is because, the story he was telling was horrible, no food and working during long days as a child is really bad. I realize that although the world in which we live has many problems, it has also many good things. I think he told the testimony to release himself from the painful memory that probably he kept for himself during many years. I think that all the things that happened during the world war II were really horrifying. Reaching the point of ignorance and of lack of humanity, in which many people got killed just for being different. Reading the testimony of this man was a way of understanding that the world has not always being as the one it is today. It was a way of learning that the although, the world nowadays has many problems, all humanity has progressed.
To conclude, his testimony allows all the readers to understand him. It helps all of us to see the world has been in worst conditions, and if humans were able to overcome them, nowadays is sure we will overcome the problems we have. It also helps us to appreciate the life we have, because sometimes we complain about all the problems, but for sure we have it better than this man had it.
Sources of Information:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?MediaId=2843 (I used this testimony)
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