Cortney Hazelrigg

The video I watched was Malka Baran. She was born in Warsaw in 1927. Her family consisted of four people and they lived in a small apartment house. Her father owned a printing shop when she was young. When she was in school she attended a private school. Once in the camp she talks about how sick she had gotten and almost died. In the camp she worked as a laborer doing different work with other women. She talks about how that there were no real young children and no women over the age of 30 because older people either died of disease or didn’t work fast enough. When she was sick she thought that it would be easier to die, and she never thought of her parents during the time she was sick because she didn’t want to think of dying and her parents living through the war. She was saved when she was sent to Israel and then lived there for several years. She talks about how the people who think that the war never happened and that these people did not go through hell during the time, she wants them to know that even through this horrible time that the people never lost hope they always believed that they would live through it and be with their families again. After watching these two videos it makes me thankful for the country we live in and the freedom that we have. I know I take for granted the things that would mean so much if we were put in a situation like the people lived like for many years. The videos show a great insight into the lives that the people lived and makes everything you have heard about real.