What Is The Effect Of Alice Herz Sommer's Reflection On The Holocaust

"Hatred eats the soul of the hater not the hated." Alice Herz Sommer, a Jewish woman who survived Theresienstadt concentration camp, reflects on the Holocaust. Not long after World War ɪ, Hitler rose to power and he wanted to create the perfect race. Hitler's plan was to eliminate all the non-Germanic races especially the Jews. Hitler put the Jews in ghettos until the found a solution. The Nazis called it the Final solution which was to gas the Jews and other non-Germanic races. The ghettos were overcrowded, unsanitary, and cold. People were always hungry because food was scarce. Many people died from, contagious diseases because the pluming was bad and human waste was on the street. Others died from living in a ghetto, due to starvation, the