The Holocaust was one of the most devastating periods in the history of the world. Millions of Jews were murdered because the leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler blamed the Jewish financiers for being responsible for sending the World into its first World War. This caused the deaths over one hundred thousand soldiers. The Hitler soldiers believed their race, the Aryan race was the strongest and best race in the world. Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race. They did not even consider Jews to be “people.” The Holocaust is known as the genocide in which six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Six million is an enormous number. To think that each one of those people who were killed was a personality,
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After she graduated primary
Maria Florek at a young age school, Maria moved to Krakow, Poland to live with her sister. Maria did not attend school any further than primary school because education during this time was not very important. College was also not very essential during this time. When Maria became an adult, she got married. Her husbands name was Brionsław Florek. He was born on May 23. 1918 in Krakow, Poland. He was a stove fitter and Maria, like her mother, was a housewife. When Brionsław and Maria got married, the two of them moved into Brionsław’s home at 41 Czyzowka Street in Krakow. Maria and her husband never had children of their own, but one of the people they helped rescue did (Dybala, 1). Maria stayed in touch with those children, even after their mother passed away. In 1941, the Floreks decided they wanted to help their Jewish friends. They contacted them to see what they could do to help prevent them from being captured. Maria and Brionslaw made the biggest sacrifice of their lives by helping two families survive being captured by the Nazis. The first family was the Goldbergs. The Goldbergs were a family of seven; Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg, their two sons, Wicek and Romek, and their three daughters, Frank, Maria, and Mila. The other family was the
After she graduated primary
Maria Florek at a young age school, Maria moved to Krakow, Poland to live with her sister. Maria did not attend school any further than primary school because education during this time was not very important. College was also not very essential during this time. When Maria became an adult, she got married. Her husbands name was Brionsław Florek. He was born on May 23. 1918 in Krakow, Poland. He was a stove fitter and Maria, like her mother, was a housewife. When Brionsław and Maria got married, the two of them moved into Brionsław’s home at 41 Czyzowka Street in Krakow. Maria and her husband never had children of their own, but one of the people they helped rescue did (Dybala, 1). Maria stayed in touch with those children, even after their mother passed away. In 1941, the Floreks decided they wanted to help their Jewish friends. They contacted them to see what they could do to help prevent them from being captured. Maria and Brionslaw made the biggest sacrifice of their lives by helping two families survive being captured by the Nazis. The first family was the Goldbergs. The Goldbergs were a family of seven; Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg, their two sons, Wicek and Romek, and their three daughters, Frank, Maria, and Mila. The other family was the