Treblinka Famine Case Study

2. A total of about 25 skiers plunged from a malfunctioning ski lift at a resort in Western Virginia on Saturday morning, February 20th. According to authorities, two people were injured as a result. The more than two dozen people fell 30 feet from the lift at Timberline Resort in Davis when it was halted by a mechanical failure, as reported by Joe Stevens, a spokesman for the West Virginia Ski Areas Association. Also, around 100 more people were left stranded on the lift for nearly two hours before they were rescued. According to a statement from Timberline, nine of the people who fell off the lift were evaluated, however only two were sent to the hospital with minor injuries. The police statement said that local fire departments as well as helicopter ambulances responded, but the helicopters were not needed. Finally, the broken lift was shut down for the
The last survivor of Treblinka, which is a Nazi death camp occupied in Poland where 875,000 people were systematically murdered, Samuel Willenberg, has died in Israel at the age of 93. A total of only 63 people are known to have survived the camp, fleeing in a revolt shortly before the camp was destroyed. This camp is known as one of the most vivid examples of the "Final Solution" plan that the Nazis had in mind to exterminate Europe's Jews. Unlike many other concentration camps, where some Jewish people were assigned to forced labor before being killed, nearly all Jews that were brought into the Treblinka camp were immediately gassed to death. Only a select few, such as young, strong men like Willenberg, who was 20 years old at the time, were spared from immediate death and assigned to maintenance work instead at the camp, located northeast of Warsaw. Before Willenberg died he stated "I live two lives, one is here and now and the other is what happened there, it never leaves me. It says in my head. It goes with me always." On a final note, Willenberg's daughter stated that he died on Friday, February