Blog 15: Holocaust Topics and The Cage

The Jewish Holocaust took place in Europe from 1933-1945. It was a mass murder of millions of followers of Judaism. The Nazi Party consisted of political followers of Adolph Hitler's views. Hitler lead and organized the genocide. Ruth Minsky Sender is a Poland-born holocaust survivor. After her mother being taken from her, leaving her with her brothers to take care of, she was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was seperated at the gates from her brothers. She was finally liberated by Russian forces. Mittelsteine was the second camp she was sent to and eventually rescued from. A personal memoir is a writing of an encounter the author had themselves. The Cage is a story of one girl who encountered the horrific genocide known as the Holocaust, and her experiences throughout.