Jeannine Burk

September of 1939 was when Adolf Hitlers evil Nazi ground forces, invaded Poland and the war was declared. It was the month Jeannine was born, with no shrewd of what was going on with the government and Germanys crude and cold army. In May, 1940, the Germans swept crossways westward Europe and Brussels was occupied for the second fourth dimension of the century. Rumors constantly rose about the Jewish commonwealth getting rounded up and that is when Jeannines father (Isaac Rasalowicz) made plans to hide Jeannine and Jeannines sister (Augusta) and buddy (Max).Her sister was bed ridden at the time, which made a difficult transaction. In 1942, Jeannines father boarded a train with her, to arrive at a Christian home on the outskirts of Brussels. As they arrived at their destination, the madam answered occupied by her devil older daughters. This was the last time Jeannine saw her father and she kept surreptitious in the house for ii years, without ever leaving (1942 1944). Bei ng so young, Jeannine wanted to go distant and live a little, but because she was of Jewish decent, she could only play in the backyard.She did this alone as the two daughters were out of age range to properly enjoy any fun time with little Jeannine. She had to construct imaginary friends and made little crafts, like handbags, out of newspaper clippings. Jeannines biggest fear was the Nazi army parading around the streets of Brussels. Jeannine stated, as you see them march on television, they used to march the exact same slump outside of her hidden home. People had to keep their doors open and once this rule applied, Jeannine had to hide in the outhouse. It was a sm whole structure made out of two by four plywood.As she hid, she used to peer by dint of a crack that was created in the outhouse, and watch the world from there, tour hiding in the outhouse Jeannine stumbled across a kitten that was oddly enough counterbalance outside the foot of the outhouse. This kept her sane fo r two years. Her father was later arrested by the Gestapo, at five oclock in the morning. They woke up the neighbor and ran through the entire house, climbing over the wall to Jeannines house where the bust in and broke down her parents bedroom door. They grabbed her father by the arm as he screamed, and threw him in their cold, musty, truck.The finishicer so grabbed Jeannines bed ridden sister, and as they did this their mother (Sarah Bluman Rafalowicz) screamed after them You can shoot me. You can shoot me right here. But I am not leaving my daughter. She is very sick with a disease. (This sickness was neer spoken of). As the officer saw Jeannines sister lying there, he tore the covers off of her, exposing her Jewish body wrapped up in a cold, white cast. The officer told Sarah theyd be back for her later, and in the time of them being gone, she contacted the Catholic Hospital and they sent an ambulance for her sister, shortly after placing her in the Isolation ward.Jeannines brother was also rescued by Christians. He was in a Christian home, for boys only, and he stayed there for the duration of the war and after the war. When the liberation was complete, he had found his way home, while Sarah was still hidden. Her mother had gotten away by saying that she was not Jewish, and escaped easy at this because some of the S. S blandly looked for dark olive eyes and hooked noses. Sarah had blond hair, and blue eyes. She got a reflect and it was pre-arranged that she would be a nurses assistant or a practical nurse in the nursing home.The Nazis were afraid of entering the Isolation ward as they were so selfishly, panicky of getting sick from disease. Max had then found the family and was 12 years senior by the time they saw him again, also being married at a very early age. As they waited for her father, weeks went by until they found out that he had been exterminated in Auschwitz. In 1986, Jeannine moved to New Orleans in 1986. She was a mother with six chi ldren and she still had fantasies that her father was alive. Later on, still being 1986, there was a gathering of survivors in Philadelphia and a nice group from New Orleans went.Jeannine, her sister and her brother all attended, and the gathering took place in a big hall. There were mostly Polish survivors. Some were French. more or less would state their ethnicity. The arrived a large table, where the Germans had meticulously recorded every Jewish citizen that was deported and every city in that country. Jeannine spotted her fathers name, and under it was when he was deported and when they were set free. Jeannines father had the listing of when he was deported, but never when he was set free.This is when she realized, her father really was dead. After the war, she did not observe religion for a capacious time. She never denied she was Jewish. She just stopped believing. She stopped believing, because she questioned how divinity would allow such a genocide to occur. How God coul d have allowed what happened to her father, or the rest of the six million people, half a million being children. To this Day, Jeannine Burk does not forgive the German nation. Jeannine still resided in New Orleans by 1971, with her husband and six children.