Why Is Judith Important
Justin Schuck
HIS 015-020
Dr. Delaney
11/21/14
Seed Of Sarah
At age 19, Hungarian Judith Magyar Isaacson found herself forced into the infamous labor camp Auschwitz. However her dreams still remained to study literature at the Sorbonne. Judith kept her spirit alive throughout her time and Auschwitz, and later transfer to Lichentau, buy focusing on her dreams. She also kept her spirit alive by the focus of family, humor and creativity. However, her goals and positive mindset are not the only reasons she made it out alive. Judith experienced many different hardships throughout her time at the concentration camps, but there are a few key circumstances and developments that are the main reason for her survival. Some of those circumstances were …show more content…
Judith and her family felt that they needed to stay together at all costs throughout their experience in the concentration camps. Staying together as a family helped motivate Judith, it also pressured her as she felt she could not leave her family. This shows how her influences on her family values helped her through this traumatic experience. One key example where she put family first is when she risked death when she switched a line that she was assigned by a SS to be with her family. “Ignoring his comment, I started after mother.” (Isaacson 86) The SS were separating the females, and Judith was separated from her mother, however she ran to be with her. The SS pushed her and yelled at her, however she did not let them win, and she continued to make her way to her mother, eventually succeeding and staying with her. “Once more I turned and followed mother, this time slowly, with deliberate steps.” (Isaacson 86) Have she not made this risky move, she could have been raped and murdered. There is no knowing what her fait would have been had she stayed in the line that she was assigned, but she took the risk of switching lines to be with her mother. There are many examples throughout Judith’s memoir of her being influenced from her family. She is constantly remembering past memories that are positive to keep her going when she is on the verge of breaking. Also, when she was being transported, she would exchange family recipes to the other girls, to help try to overcome their extreme starvation. Family is always something that Judith seemed to hold very close to her heart. Her will to survive for her family is definitely a key importance on why she is recognized as a Holocaust
HIS 015-020
Dr. Delaney
11/21/14
Seed Of Sarah
At age 19, Hungarian Judith Magyar Isaacson found herself forced into the infamous labor camp Auschwitz. However her dreams still remained to study literature at the Sorbonne. Judith kept her spirit alive throughout her time and Auschwitz, and later transfer to Lichentau, buy focusing on her dreams. She also kept her spirit alive by the focus of family, humor and creativity. However, her goals and positive mindset are not the only reasons she made it out alive. Judith experienced many different hardships throughout her time at the concentration camps, but there are a few key circumstances and developments that are the main reason for her survival. Some of those circumstances were …show more content…
Judith and her family felt that they needed to stay together at all costs throughout their experience in the concentration camps. Staying together as a family helped motivate Judith, it also pressured her as she felt she could not leave her family. This shows how her influences on her family values helped her through this traumatic experience. One key example where she put family first is when she risked death when she switched a line that she was assigned by a SS to be with her family. “Ignoring his comment, I started after mother.” (Isaacson 86) The SS were separating the females, and Judith was separated from her mother, however she ran to be with her. The SS pushed her and yelled at her, however she did not let them win, and she continued to make her way to her mother, eventually succeeding and staying with her. “Once more I turned and followed mother, this time slowly, with deliberate steps.” (Isaacson 86) Have she not made this risky move, she could have been raped and murdered. There is no knowing what her fait would have been had she stayed in the line that she was assigned, but she took the risk of switching lines to be with her mother. There are many examples throughout Judith’s memoir of her being influenced from her family. She is constantly remembering past memories that are positive to keep her going when she is on the verge of breaking. Also, when she was being transported, she would exchange family recipes to the other girls, to help try to overcome their extreme starvation. Family is always something that Judith seemed to hold very close to her heart. Her will to survive for her family is definitely a key importance on why she is recognized as a Holocaust