Jack Fogel - Holocaust Summary

Jack Fogel

Jack Fogel’s testimony described about his experience with the Germans and the ghettos that he was stuck in. 
In 1940, Fogel was picked up by a truck with about twenty other people and was transferred to different ghettos. While in the ghetto, the men were taught to be hard workers. Fogel worked in coalmines throughout his time in the camps.

One night some of the Jews tried to escape the camp, but were caught, so the Nazi rounded everyone up and shot ten people - including the escapees. They were told that the next time someone tried to escape twenty people would be killed.

Fogel and his companions that worked at the mines were rarely feed, which lead to many getting shot for going unconscious due to mal-nutrient. Due to the lack of food, Fogel almost died as well. However, Fogel was fortunate enough to have two other men standing by him when he fell. They carried him until he got some strength back to begin walking the rest of the way.

After 1944, Fogel stayed in a displaced person’s camp at age twenty because he had no family. He wanted to go to the United States, but wasn’t able to, so he started look for jobs to start making some money. He was able to get a job in Sydney, Australia in a clothing factory, which is where he meet is wife. Fogel was happy for the first time in years after what he had been through. While doing the interview he is now currently employed at a Jewish Holocaust museum. He wants to get across to people to tell them what really went on instead of the lies that are told. He wants to get across to students mainly to let them know that something like the Holocaust will never happen again. He wishes no pain upon anyone ever again like the pain he went through with his fellow mankind.