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**Interview subject** - Judy Meisel ( Holocaust survivor )
 * Topic ** - World War II Holocaust

Here is some background information about the Holocaust before we get started with the interview. The Holocaust was a dreadful event during WW2 that mostly everyone knows about. It was a terrible event in which Jews, Gypsies, etc. were put into concentration camps by Hitler. Hitler felt that the Jews had caused the loss of WW1 for Germany. However, the main reason is because he believed in the supreme race of White Americans. You can tell that this was a dreadful event because the meaning of Holocaust is sacrifice by fire. In the next paragraph you will see how they were "sacrificed". The camps contained nothing but brutality and savage. The Jews would work for no reason and do painful work. They were being treated much much worse than slaves. They were fed very little food such as bread and maybe a small portion of soup. What is magnificent though is the sacrifice that some Jews gave up to the others. They would give some of their bread and food just to help them. This is very surprising because normally we would think that by this time the Jews would turn on one another. The deaths of the Jews in the camps included gassing, being burned in a pit, being hit or abused until death, etc. When they died their shriveled up bodies were taken by a bulldozer and put into another huge pit.

SOURCES

http://www.jewishsantabarbara.org/page.aspx?id=119663

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133p/133p04papers/HFeng2Interviews046.htm