Friday, May 4, 2012

Survivor of the Holocaust topic 7

http://history1900s.about.com/od/theresienstadt/a/opfermann.htm

1)interview with Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann
article by Jennifer Rosenberg

Bullet points
  • Lived in Wiesbaden Germany
  • Synagogue attented was the Michelsberg Synagogue of Wiesbaden destroyed november 10, 1938 know as the Kristallnancht
  • spent teenage years in as a prisoner of the nazis
  • 17 when they were arrested and deported entire family was deported to the Theresienstadt camp
  • camp was "desperation,hard work, hunger, disease, being eaten alive by vermin"
  • typical day= waking up lving with 6000 other women getting ready for work, coffe and maybe bread if she got there early enough had a hour to fetch food visit family and friends 8pm lights off
  • part of the labor groups called Hundertschaft because they worked in units of 100
  • had many illnesses- hepatitis, pneumonia, diptheria and nose, throat, and ear inffections- Had no idea how she ever survived
  • after bear fatal illness worked at youth care giver nursing sick childern
2) Does not have a date it was published
3)Author is
Jennifer Rosenberg
4) she is getting this information by a holocaust survior

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