I Had The Privilege Of Attending An Event Put On By The...

Holocaust Event I had the privilege of attending an event put on by the Hillel/Jewish Student Organization. The event took place on the campus of Central Michigan University January 27th, 2016, in Pearce Hall. The official name of this event was: â€Å"Holocaust Survivor Martin Lowenberg at Central Michigan University†, and it featured Mr. Martin Lowenberg himself as the presenter. Martin Lowenberg is 87 years old and is from Schenklengsfeld, Germany. He lived in Schenklengsfeld until his 8th birthday, when he was accused of sticking his tongue out at a picture of Adolf Hitler and was forced to sit on a board of nails as a punishment. After this incident, Martin, along with his other family members, decided to send him to a boarding school†¦show more content†¦Martin’s Father, Mother and twin brothers were taken to the most famous and awful concentration camp known during the Holocaust, Auschwitz. The one thing that really stood out to me while Mr. Lowenberg wa s speaking about his twin brothers during this time was he hoped that they â€Å"died fast. His reasoning for this statement was because it was known that when twins were sent to Auschwitz they had horrible and painful experiments performed on them. He was hoping that his brothers did not have to go through the torture for too long, or at all, for that matter, hence he hoped they â€Å"died fast†. Martin was sent to camps in Hamburg, then Fuhlsbuettel, Kiel third, and finally Malmo where he was saved by the Russian army. Martin and his sister then moved to the United States where they currently live. The only other person to survive besides Martin and his sister was their other sister who was already living in the United States before the war broke out. The Holocaust was an awful yet historic event that occurred not so long ago when compared to some historic events but changed the world into what it is today. The German army under the control of Adolf Hitler was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews, homosexuals, the physical and mentally challenged and other religions Germans. The Holocaust started in 1941 and ended with the invasion of Germany by the Russians in 1945. This is a famous example of oppression in history. The prisoners at these concentration camps