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TAMU HIST 106 - Holocaust Survivor Speech
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HIST 106 1nd Edition Lecture 16Outline of Last LectureI. WWIIOutline of Current Lecture I. Holocaust Survivor SpeechCurrent LectureMr. Al Marks- Holocaust survivor - Concentration camps he survived:o Auschwitz o Mauthauseno Melko Ebensee: - Came back when he was 19 and was drafted by the US Army for Korean War- The concentrations camps were not only for people of Jewish faitho of the 16,000 in concentration camps – 8,000 were Christians- The concentration camps were designed to keep people while they work and execute them when it’s over- Hungary was the last to be occupied by the Nazi’s- 1944 Hitler marched into Hungary and took the “undesirable” and put them on freight trains to Auschwitz- Dr. Mangoly (a medical doctor) sent him away from his parents without a chance to say goodbye- His parents were gassed and passed away- July 8th, 1944 US air force bombed Melk by mistakeo Lost 600 peopleo Marks has a piece of bomb in his lungs (found out b/c of an x-ray)- Marks was liberated at Ebensee along with 16,000 others in July 1945- The average day in the campo Digging tunnels where the rockets from US air force were supposed to be hiddeno Food was just enough to have strength to worko Just trying to stay alive and worko He was friends with people who spoke the same languageThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- One day before liberationo SS wanted to send prisoners into the tunnel but they refused b/c they knew they would all die in the tunnel. o The next day Bob Persinger drove into the camp with his Jeep and saved Marks and others.- Occasionally the guards were helpful, SS Guards were the bad guys- SS Commandant of Melk (Julius Ludolf) was tried and sentenced to death- “Did you lose your Jewish Faith?”o Lost part of it, he sometimes questioned why did this happen to him- Weighed about 90 pounds when liberated- Anybody who tried to escape, they were captured and executed- Women were in separate camps- “What gave you hope throughout the whole experience?”o The statement “where there is life, there is hope”- For 20 years he did not talk about what happened- He was 13 when taken to the camp and was liberated a year later- “Did you go back to the camps?”o Ebensee is now a cemeteryo Melk would not let him in b/c it is owned by military - The executions were the worst thing he had to witness- “Were children always taken away from parents?”o All children were separated except for identical twins. o The twins were treated like angels b/c Dr. Mangoly was performing experiments on them, when the experiment was over they were executed - Lesson: you need good friends in your life- 9000 concentration camps during WWII- Marks chose to come to the US b/c coming to America is desired in by many in


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