Cortney Hazelrigg

The movie that I watched was Ursula Levy, she was born in 1935. Ursula doesn’t not remember too much from when she was real young. Ursula lived a very normal life her family owned a textile company and had been in her family for generations. Her uncle and father ended up passing away in 1939 from gang-green in their legs. After the two deaths Ursula’s mother contacted another uncle who at the time was in the United States asking if he knew of anyone who could help and protect her two young children. Ursula’s mother ended up sending the two young children Ursula and her brother George who was five years older to Holland. Ursula’s memories start here when she is on the train to Holland. A funny thing was when she was on the train she was afraid to flush the toilet so she mad her brother go with her to help her flush the toilet. Ursula and her brother were sent to the constanration camps in 1943. There were five children that were sent to the camps and only her and her brother survived. In 1940 Ursula heard planes flying over she said she was excited, but had no idea what it meant. She later went on to talk about when the Germans took over all the little towns in Holland and a Nazi was put in charge of the towns and learned that there were Jewish children living in the towns. The first two children were sent away in 1940 and then the third little girl in 41 and then Ursula and her brother in 1943. The first camp Ursula was sent to was Verst or something like that. She talked about how her and her brother were separated from one another. She also talked about how they were made to take their clothes off and wear something else so they would all match. Ursula also mentioned the Nazi guards and how they would beat people for really no reason at all. Ursula and her brother were saved by Mr. Vansenberg when he came to visit Ursula on her birthday and was talking to the Nazi guard and basically told him that the kids don’t look Jewish at all because their father was catholic and lived in America. This lie was what saved Ursula and her brother from dying at the camp. Ursula and her brother were sent to a house that were all the diamond cutters that were Jewish lived because the Germans wanted to keep them alive to learn the trait so they could cut diamonds. Ursula talked about how the women in her camp were starving to death but how when she would be eating they would never take her food, they would never be mean to her, that they protected her and watched after her and how amazed she was that these poor women who were dying were so nice to her. At the end of the war Ursula was put on a train that would run circles for 13 days. She remembered how at the point they could escape because the train would stop for days, but they all lost the ways to reason and plan things out. What I find so amazing about this story is her attitude she always was talking about the good times, how pretty it was during the spring, and that she always believed they would be free at last. She went through hell and still thought that the experience taught her so much and learned so many life lessons. This is a true story that will touch your heart and makes you feel so grateful for the things we are blessed with everyday.
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