Warren, Mary. Holocaust Survivor Shares His Story

In this story about Max Eisen, the author May Warren explains with some details about what happened to Max Eisen during the Holocaust. Mr. Warren says that Max Eisen was standing in a room to tell his story. This room was organized by members of the Jewish Student organization, as a part of the Holocaust Education Week. Eisen began his testimony by describing the day he first set foot on Canadian soil. Also, Eisen is a Hungarian Jew born in what was at that time Czechoslovakia. He eventually married and has two sons and two daughters.

            Eisen told to everybody in the room that his life was a little bit comfortable, but it was until one morning in 1944 when he, his mother, father, two brothers and baby sister were forced out of their home by Nazis and told to pack their belongings. Then, they were forced onto cattle cars in horrible conditions with very little food and water. In addition, Eisen, his father and his uncle were separated from the women. Finally, Eisen was liberated and he went to his old town looking for someone who was alive, but he did not find it. Then, at the end of his testimony he said to the students in the room: “Don’t be a bystander,” “The Holocaust didn’t start with Auschwitz, it started with words.”

            I think that it is a great and good way to keep the story of the Holocaust alive. I would like that any Holocaust survivor would give me a testimony about his/her life during the Holocaust because I found it very interesting.