ID Card Report Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, which was the beginning of the Holocaust. Holocaust is a Greek word meaning "sacrifice by fire" (United States). World War II was later initiated by Germany invading Poland on September 1, 1939. The German Nazis, who Hitler was the leader of, believed themselves to be superior to all other religions, especially the Jewish community. There were about six million Jewish lives lost during the Holocaust along with millions of other races. Each individual victim and survivor has a different story that has been documented through ID cards developed by The Holocaust Museum. Franz Monjau and Ruth Freund Reiser were two of the targeted people whose stories interested
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Franz was only half Jewish and not worried about the danger being half Jewish could bring him. Only five months after Hitler became chancellor, Franz got arrested for being identified as “Mischlinge” meaning a mixed race. “…[He] studied painting at Duesseldorf’s Academy of Fine arts…[then] later taught art to high school students” (Monjau). From 1933 to 1939 after Franz was arrested, he was “…Banned from painting, exhibiting, [and] teaching” (Monjau). Franz worked in secrecy, but eventually got caught and was then fired. “After the war began, the Nazis assigned him to factory work” (Monjau). Franz’s wife, being intermarried, was also banned from teaching because of her marriage to a non-Aryan. From 1940 to 1944, Franz and his wife were helping the anti-Nazi underground when his wife was sent to Berlin to work in a military hospital. Once Franz received word that “…The Nazis began deporting “Mischlinge,” Franz went into hiding” (Monjau). “He was denounced in fall 1944, interned at a "work education camp," and then deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp” where Franz later died in the “medical experiment barracks on February 28, 1945” …show more content…
“Ruth was a child of middle-class Jewish parents…” (Reiser). Ruth was in secondary school just six years before the German Nazis occupied her home city in March 1939. When the Germans arrived, they came with many restrictions for Jews, such as Ruth’s family. One of the restrictions appointed was, “Jews were no longer allowed to attend school…” (Reiser). This marked what Ruth thought was the end of a normal life. “[Ruth] was deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto in late 1944” (Reiser). Shortly after she found herself in a line of 1,000 women waiting to be gassed. Ruth managed to get put on a labor transport going to Lenzing concentration camp. “Liberated by American troops, Ruth returned to Prague [and] was the sole survivor of her family”
Franz was only half Jewish and not worried about the danger being half Jewish could bring him. Only five months after Hitler became chancellor, Franz got arrested for being identified as “Mischlinge” meaning a mixed race. “…[He] studied painting at Duesseldorf’s Academy of Fine arts…[then] later taught art to high school students” (Monjau). From 1933 to 1939 after Franz was arrested, he was “…Banned from painting, exhibiting, [and] teaching” (Monjau). Franz worked in secrecy, but eventually got caught and was then fired. “After the war began, the Nazis assigned him to factory work” (Monjau). Franz’s wife, being intermarried, was also banned from teaching because of her marriage to a non-Aryan. From 1940 to 1944, Franz and his wife were helping the anti-Nazi underground when his wife was sent to Berlin to work in a military hospital. Once Franz received word that “…The Nazis began deporting “Mischlinge,” Franz went into hiding” (Monjau). “He was denounced in fall 1944, interned at a "work education camp," and then deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp” where Franz later died in the “medical experiment barracks on February 28, 1945” …show more content…
“Ruth was a child of middle-class Jewish parents…” (Reiser). Ruth was in secondary school just six years before the German Nazis occupied her home city in March 1939. When the Germans arrived, they came with many restrictions for Jews, such as Ruth’s family. One of the restrictions appointed was, “Jews were no longer allowed to attend school…” (Reiser). This marked what Ruth thought was the end of a normal life. “[Ruth] was deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto in late 1944” (Reiser). Shortly after she found herself in a line of 1,000 women waiting to be gassed. Ruth managed to get put on a labor transport going to Lenzing concentration camp. “Liberated by American troops, Ruth returned to Prague [and] was the sole survivor of her family”