A holocaust story

     I recently had to visit my schools holocaust center during a class to learn more about what happened and how it can relate to the U.S correctional system.  We had a guest speaker, she is a survivor of the holocaust. Here is a brief summary of her story.

          Her name is Jane. She was born in a small town in Germany to a Jewish family. She was a teenager when Hitler came into power. For her family the treatment of Jews was not as bad as in other places because it was a small town away from the capital city. Because her family did not want to be around when things got worst, and to avoid being sent to a concentration camp her father tried to get them visas to get out of Germany. Unfortunately, many other countries were closing their doors to immigating Jews. The only choices they had where China and Cuba. They bought tickets to go to Cuba on a ship and because they could not keep the German money her father decided to buy first class tickets. She states that they rode comfortably until they arived to Cuba.

         When they arrived to Cuba they came across a problem. The Cuban government had to check all the doctor records of the Jews and after about a week they decided they could not enter into Cuba, that they could not find the records or something of the sort. The ship set off to try and find somewhere for them to go, or they would have to return to Germany. Her father did not want to go back because they no longer had money and couldn't get all their things back. They ended up in France. She was sent to an orphanage with all the other children her age. Her parent lived in France, too but separated from the children, they did however see each other occasionally. After a few months of being in France, her father found a way to get them visas to the United States. She arrived at New York, and moved to Queens and has lived there ever since.