https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798242097/holocaust-survivor-returning-to-auschwitz-it-s-like-going-to-the-family-cemetery

Accessed 4 april 2022

In “Holocaust Survivor Returning To Auschwitz”  The article talks about a holocaust survivor by the name of Vladimir Munk.

Vladimir Munk was sent to Terezin a concentration a camp when the Nazis occupied his home country.

The camp was not an extermination camp but due to the low food supply around ~33,000 Jews died of starvation. Later his parents were sent to a worse camp called Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Sadly Vladimir's parents died in the camp.

After Vladimir's time in the concentration  camp he was freed in the later part of 1945.

Vladimir had it rough for a while longer having to beg for food but he had a great turn around.

He went back to school and got a phd and got happily married with his girlfriend from the camp.

In ”A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family.'' Writer Emma Bow talks about how a boy who was caught by German soldiers became adopted. In April 1942, Lazowski was caught by german soldiers and was taken to zhetel market place where they put them into certain groups, one group where they can work, and the other where they cant. Lazowski then sees a woman with 2 children then goes up and asks “would you be kind enough to take me as your son?”. The woman did say yes. Years later after he came to the U.S, he was at a restaurant where he met someone and that woman said she was from “bielica” which is where Lazowski was from. She asked “You know, a girlfriend told me a story, they saved a boy from Bielica.” and that's when Lazowski realize they were talking about him. 

Accessed 4 Apr. 2022.

In “It’s Like Going To The Family Cemetery” writer Emily Russel illustrates her conversation with Munk, the holocaust survivor. In the article, Emily describes how the experience talking with Munk was and the emotions he felt. The purpose of this article is to explain how millions of people died in Auschwitz, and how life was before and after the holocaust for Munk and other survivors. Munk was born in 1925 and was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded his country. Munk was married and had a kid but his wife sadly passed a few years ago. Munk claimed he was never happy after being put into the camp until his child was born. Munk is going back to Auschwitz and it illustrates in the article that he is very scared of the thought. This article describes why Munk is going back and it says, “Munk started thinking more about his time in the Nazi camps and about the family he lost in Auschwitz”. This article further show how Munk has to prepare for his journey back to the camp.

 https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798242097/holocaust-survivor-returning-to-auschwitz-it-s-like-going-to-the-family-cemetery

Accessed April 4th, 2022

    The story “Holocaust Survivor Returning to Auschwitz: ‘It’s Like Going To The Family Cemetery’”,  speaks of a holocaust survivor, Vladimir Munk, returning to the place where most of his family was killed during the holocaust. In the late 1930’s, teenage Munk and his family were forced onto a train going to a concentration camp called Terezin. It wasn’t an extermination camp but people died there because of hunger. Munk was living normally under anti-jewish like laws, but 2 years after his family’s arrival, Munk and his father were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. They were separated and Munk’s father died in the chimney. His mother died shortly afterwards. Soon after his parents death, he met his girlfriend, Kitty and they stayed together through out the holocaust and their release in 1945. Munk went back to Poland then his hometown, Czechoslovakia and started his life up there. He enrolled in college and earned his masters and PhD in microbiology. After college, he married kitty and left there after the soviets invaded. He and his wife flew to Plattsburgh, New York and he started teaching microbiology. Munk is now retired and has kids who knows about his past. He decided not to tell them when they were kids so they wouldn’t let history define them as a whole. But recently he’s been thinking of his past and gave this more thought when his wife died in 2015. So he decided to take a trip to the place where his family died, in Auschwitz. 

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074549640/storycorps-holocaust-survivor-remembers  

Accessed April 4,2022
In “ A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family.” The author writes about Philip Lazowski a survivor of the Holocaust and his family when the Nazis invaded the Polish town of Bielica. In April 1942, Lazowski heard that the Nazis were killing Jews, they decided to go into hiding. Before Philip could hide, a German soldier had spotted him. Philip was soon taken to the Zhetel marketplace, where the soldiers split people up into two groups. One on who could work and those who could not. As Philip was watching the way they split up the people, he noticed that the German soldiers were letting families with paper works pass by. His reaction was to search the crowd in which he saw a woman with documentation of a nurse along with her two daughters he decided to go over to her and ask could be passed by as her son which she allowed. Years later, after Philips immigrated from the U.S, he was attending a wedding in which he started a conversation with a woman next to him and she brought up how her friend told her that they saved a boy from the same place Philip was from. At that moment, Phillip realized he was that little boy and decided to reconnect with the woman that saved his life, then Phillip married Miriam’s daughter, Ruth.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/13/1045685012/eddie-jaku-obituary-holocaust-survivor-happiest-man-on-earth
Accessed 4 April 2022

In “Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and self-proclaimed happiest man on Earth, dies at 101” Eddie was considered the happiest man yet he had been through the Nazi war and put on a death march and put in several camps to be forced to work. After everything he went through like him being put on a death march and escaping by hiding in the woods and eating bugs and things to stay alive until an American soldier found him and took him to safety. When he was brought to safety he moved into Belgium where he met his wife he was with for 70 years and he said he was still a very sad man. Everything changed when he had his kids and he said that's when he became a really happy man and it had changed his whole look at life so he became very happy in life.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/26/960631343/90-year-old-auschwitz-survivor-shares-her-story                              Accessed 4 Apr 2022.

In "90-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Shares Her Story" holocaust survivor Ruth Cohen shares her story and the importance of making sure something like the holocaust doesn't happen again. When Ruth was younger she had a nice life until 1938 when her dad's business was taken away. In 1944 she and her family were told they had to leave their house and go to a ghetto where they were later taken on a train to Auschwitz. When they arrived in Auschwitz she and her family were separated and she ended up with only her sister. The only ones out of her family that survived were her, her sister, and her father. Ruth says that she is a very hopeful person and she believes that her hope is what allowed her to survive. She also believes that we all have a role in making sure that something like the holocaust never happens again.

In “A family helped a holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real famil=y” Emma Bowman explains how a boy named Phillip was caught by a jewish soldier  amd was later saved by the Lazowski family. In the beginning of this article it was explained that was taken to the Zhetel marketplace after getting caught. He searched through crowds and found a nurse who had two children, he asked if she could take him in as her son and she basically said yes. She told him to grab her dress. They rekindled some years later, he started speaking to a woman next to him and mentions he’s from bielica…. “"sitting at the table I said, I come from the town of Bielica, "he said. "She says, 'You know, a girlfriend told me a story, they saved a boy from Bielica. And we don't know if he's alive." He eventually realized that he was the one who they saved.

In “Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and self-proclaimed happiest man on Earth, dies at 101” he was loved by many people and he also helped a lot of people who have felt some type of way. Many people loved him because of his kindness and speeches. Jaku was born in Germany but was jewish, he was kicked out of highschool because he was jewish and he also hated it. He has been to multiple camps like Buchenwald, Gurs and eventually Auschwitz where he luckily survived. Jaku was able to escape to a forest and ate slugs as food, then was saved by the american army. Then he returned to belgium where he married his wife, then moved to australia. Then he did had a son which made him lose his depression and became happy again.