Sally Eisner Holocaust Survivor

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Sally EisnerHolocaust Survivor

• By Mason Murr

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Sallys Family Before the Holocaust

• Sallys dad had a small business as an
  accountant.
• Sallys mom helped with the business and kept the
  house tended to.
• Sally had an older brother named Ha.

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First Attack by the Nazis

• Sally and her family went and worked at a labor
  camp to try and stay away from the Nazis.
• One day Sally and her brother were playing with
  some other kids while her parents worked with the
  other people that they were working with when
  Nazi soldiers just surrounded the camp
  unexpectedly.

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The Nazis Orders

• They ordered all the workers to dig a mass grave.
• Then the Nazis ordered all the adult workers into
  the grave and shot them all dead.

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After the Attack

• Sally, her brother, and their friends hid when
  they saw the soldiers, but they saw all the
  action of the attack.
• But they didnt know that their parents had been
  killed. Sallys brother approached the pit and
  saw his mom and dad laying on top of the pile,
  then ran off into the forest.

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After the Attack cont.

• He left Sally with her friend who would later
  become her husband. They walked over to the mass
  grave and stood there frightened, not knowing
  what to do.

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What to do Next

• Sally and her friend spent the night in the field
  beside the mass grave.
• When dawn came, she said by to her friend and
  went to look for her brother who she found an
  hour later in a swampy part of the forest.

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A New Home

• Sally found a family who take her and her
  brother. The people owned a farm were Sally and
  her brother could work.

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The Police

• One late afternoon, Sally was watching her
  brother chop wood up front. The farm owners had
  left for the day wouldnt be back till late that
  night.
• Sally looked in to the distance and saw some
  people riding horseback toward the farm.

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The Police cont.

• Someone had supposedly told the police that Sally
  and her brother were hiding out the farmers
  place. Sally had a gut feeling about the people
  and wasnt going to take any chances. She ran out
  and grabbed her brother by the arm and pulled him
  inside the house to look for a hiding place.

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The Hiding Place

• They ran into a bed room and hid under the bed.
• They heard the front door being flung open as the
  police entered the house.
• The police found the room they were hiding in in
  a matter of seconds.

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The Hiding Place cont.

• The police searched the room finding nothing only
  leaving the bed left to check.
• The police started sticking the bayonets on the
  end of their guns under the bed.
• They pulled out boxes of shoes and clothes.
• Sally felt something sharp poke her arm but
  didnt dare make a word.

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Finding a New Hide Out

• When the farm owners came back, Sally and her
  brother told them what happened.
• The farm owners werent very happy about what had
  happened and kicked Sally and her brother out.

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Finding a New Hide Out cont.

• They spent the rest of the night walking through
  the snow when they came upon another labor camp.
  This was where they stayed to the end of the
  Holocaust.

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Present Day

• Sally and her husband are now parents and
  grandparents. Sally wishes her children and
  grandchildren will never have to go through a
  terrible event like the Holocaust.

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Bibliography

• http//fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/survivor.htm