The document summarizes Kate Bernath's experience as a Holocaust survivor. It describes how she was born in Hungary and was captured by German forces in 1944. She was imprisoned in the Kosice ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, and Plazsow forced labor camp before being liberated at the end of World War II. The document provides background on the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews under Hitler's Nazi regime between 1933-1945.

1. The Holocaust: A survival story By: Tara Ransom

2. The Holocaust Before 1933: Holocaust- any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life After 1933: Holocaust- the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War

3. The Holocaust (cont.) Hitler- 1933 The “Perfect German Race” White, physically and mentally healthy, blue-eyed, blonde. Persecuted: Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Rebels

4. Plazsow Camp Podgorze district 10 miles from center of Krakow March 1941- Opening of Ghetto Forced Labor of Jews 8,000 Prisoners Schindler’s list

5. Auschwitz 1940 Oswiecim Local Prisoners 1942- Largest Death Camp Most feared camp Denial of Killings Gas Chambers Crematories Shootings

6. Kate Bernath 1927- Born in Szikszo Hungary 1944- German Invasion

7. Captive Kosice Ghetto Auschwitz Plazsow Camp Auschwitz Messerschmidt Factory Liberated Definition: to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage

8. “ We were, uh, in the midst of all our troubles we were trying to cheer each other up. If one was feeling very low, we, we tried to tell them, we, we dreamed about things what we were going to do when we got liberated. We were all...we never thought for a minute, I never thought for a minute that I'm really going to die. I, it just did not sink in. I mean with all these horrors around me I, I always thought that we were dreaming of, of things--when I get home I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that and I just want to see this, this war end and just live for the day when we see the Germans defeated. And that kept us alive. Never to lose hope. If you lost hope, that was the end of it. It was so easy in Auschwitz. All you had to do is reach out for the barbed wires. They were electrified. We would not do them the favor. We said if they want to kill us, they'll have to kill us. We are not going to die.” -Kate Bernath

9. Information Sources Dictionary.com http://dictionary.com Auschwitz-Birkenau http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/ Infoplease http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0823994.html Plazsow Concentration Camp http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Plaszow/Plaszow01 Shoah http://www.projetaladin.org/fr/voix-et-visages/kate-bernath Holocaust Museum http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/

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