Surviving the Holocaust: Esther Eisen's Story

Deported to the Lodz ghetto in 1940 with her family, Esther Eisen was eleven years old when she found herself living in one room with five family members and a stranger. Experiencing the horrors of the Lodz ghetto, Esther's older brother died of starvation and her mother was sent to the Chelmno death camp. Deported from the ghetto along with her father in August 1944, Esther was sent to Auschwitz, where she was separated from him forever and taken for forced labor. Transferred to other camps, Esther was loaded onto a train for Germany that was bombed by the Allied air forces yet managed to escape. Esther married a Holocaust survivor and the couple immigrated to Israel, where Esther's husband fell in battle in Israel's War of Independence. Subsequently remarrying, Esther turned to the arts to cope with her loss, becoming a painter, sculptor and writer.

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[y0toriii]

it makes me sick to think that people deny the holocaust.

when obviously, there are these poor people who live with the memories.

their lives were stolen from them, and they still have the courage to live.

god bless them.

[Prayerfull1]

I cry for all this hate that humans are capable of.

[smokensexy13]

people really deny this?!?!? these people r living proof!!!! so the people that deny this, ALL these people that have never met are lying about the same exact things????????

[AtilladHun]

Wherever there is a neo-Nazi group demonstrating, the local jewish community should be out there at the forefront to denounce them, even physically confront them. It is time to extract revenge on ANYONE who desecrate the memory of your fellow jews who suffered this tragedy. Force with Force, you should fight.

[MrBloosey1]

i wouldn't want to be a perpetrator on judgement day.

[12RoachPapa]

Okay I am a Jew so what! All Nazis die I do not care! For the Nazis: I will never forget nor forgive

[11whatevs]

she should write a book about her experiences i would read it for sure

[jewlie1998]

When you think back to when you were a kid after you watch this you realize you were nothing but selfish compared to what they had to deal with every day for months.

"GOD BLESS THEM"

[RumikoXP]

...it saddening and curious to me, the hatred humans are capable of.

[suutari13]

The person who will not disbelieve those who claim that a modern state was exterminating masses of human beings

at a center of chemical industry, employing an insecticide, and that the

pervasive stench at that site was due to the associated cremations, is the complete

twentieth century equivalent of the person who, in earlier centuries, believe

those who claimed that misfortunes were caused by people who conversed

with toads, had intercourse with the Devil

[sugurnspice22]

I dont understand how people can be so possessed with hate.

They will meet there maker and when they do they will get what they gave.

"Behold I come quicky and my reward is with me to give every man according to his works" Rev 22;12

[aquaholic1004]

I. Have a ?. How on earth do some ppl believe that the holocaust didn't hapen?