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| Survivors in this section talk about life before the Holocaust. They encounter prejudice and discrimination in the form of anti-Semitism. They talk about the loss of various rights once anti-Jewish decrees are established. |
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| Survivors in this section talk about life before the Holocaust. They encounter prejudice and discrimination in the form of anti-Semitism. They talk about the loss of various rights once anti-Jewish decrees are established. |
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| The Nazis established ghettos all across the occupied countries from 1939 as a means to isolate the Jews from the general population and therefore control them more easily. Ghettos were usually established in the most run-down areas of a city and surrounded by barbed wire, walls or guards. |
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| Concentration camps had already been established throughout Europe. Some served as hard labour camps, other were transit camps. However, six death camps had been constructed in Poland by the end of 1941, for the specific purpose of carrying out the Final Solution. |
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| There were still those who resisted in both ghettos and camps in order to prevent their fate, despite the overwhelming obstacles they faced. Methods used to resist the Nazis included armed resistance as well as moral, spiritual, economic, cultural and political resistance. |
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| Liberation is often imagined as a time of celebration and freedom. However survivors in this section, describe a rather different image. Here, Edith Birkin describes being forced to walk in a death march. |
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| Edith was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1927. In 1941 she entered the Lodz ghetto, Poland. She was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland in 1944. She survived a death march to Flossenberg camp in Germany and was liberated from Belsen in 1945. |
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