This is an interesting work were one testimony of the holocaust will be briefly described, a testimony in which the role of friendship meant supervision in the biggest and cruelest concentration camp of the holocaust; Auschwitz. 

The testimony is of a Hungarian called Bart Stern.

The Second World war and the holocaust are the most devastating and tragic events humanity has lived and experienced. The tremendous number of 60 million innocent deaths is just the absurd evidence of a war that will never be forgotten. 

The holocaust was a systematic persecution and massacre of 6 millions Jews by the Nazi Regime. The holocaust was a genocide intended by Nazis terrible thoughts of different religions or racial discriminatory measures. The Nazis thought that they were supreme over humanity and started their Final solution (extermination of Jews in Europe). The final solution was simply the most atrocious plan and believing viewed in history. This plan of Jews annihilation because “they were just no humans” allowed Nazis kill 2 of 3 European Jews. Nazis implemented the concentration camps as their infrastructure base for their final solution, they just took by force Jews and enclosed them. In this camps people were obligated to work without precedents in which the most little contradiction was death. In this camps people were shot and erased from the world in gas chambers (carbon dioxide chambers in which they put in people for killing them). The very sad and cruel truth, there were very few survivors. The lucky and very fortunate people that resisted or survived to the worst tragedy they could ever live simply have devastating memories of that harsh times, and some live nowadays to tell about it. For example, Bart Stern. 

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Bart Stern was born in 1926 in Hungary. After the German occupation of Hungary in march of 1944, first he was forced to established in a ghetto of his hometown. Between may and July of 1944 Germans started the process of deportation of Hungary's to Auschwitz in Poland, one of the biggest concentration camps of the Nazi Regime. In Auschwitz we was selected for very hardly working in a mine of coal. At the end he was one of the few lucky inmates who resisted and remained in the camp at the time of liberation. In Bart's testimony we would see how friendship became in hope and most importantly, living and surviving.

                                

They were working in a Kommando and the three of them stuck together closer. And there was also another person who always said, "That's it," which meant he was going to do something to commit suicide, or getting under something to get killed. They would always encourage him, of course, you know, he was 17 and if somebody who was 30 was already an old man he was very old. And they always used to tell him, "Don't, things are better." We heard of planes, we heard this, he meant, we always nurtured themselves on some of these hopes as well. And of course, you know the people were of more religious background, so they had hope God will help they didn't give up so fast. And they said, "Listen, God will help, he will see," and so on and so on. This man just couldn't take it. Nobody could take it, but some had more strength than others. One day, after exhaustive day, a special holiday, he thought it was, they went back and his ration of bread was stolen or disappeared. He said, "That's it." He wanted to get kind of their approval that...they did not let him die, they did not just feed him with words. The three of them got a third of our meager little ration, which consisted of a piece like bread like a brick, which was, as we know now, sawdust. They gave a third of that, a third of their life for, this man not give up. A matter of fact, to the best of my knowledge, he survived.

                                     

This testimony is very particular, and in other words special. Is a representation of friendship in the most important role it can take. Surviving a such severe and tremendous catastrophe is not easy, even more alone. The value of friendship is irreplaceable, that's exactly what Mr. Stern showed. 

My opinion towards the testimony is of deep admiration. Life shows all the time what it is crucial and valuable and what is not. This testimony shows one of the most valuable things humanity has, friendship. Critically taken into account all what happened in the holocaust and the actual day humanity it's simply and reliably clear how friends impact humans, friendship is a blessing.

Theme

Theme of Bart testimony 

The theme of this testimony is how friendship represents hope and the most important support in the hardest times a human can live. Friendship is crucial and very valuable for humanity its something a human cant never last or forget. The most clear textual support is found in the following phrases: "They would always encourage him" and also at the end oh Bart testimony were he said "That's it." He wanted to get kind of their approval that...they did not let him die, they did not just feed him with words." These two phrases reflected the strong friendship as at the same time the its critical role. 

Link of the original testimony

Here is the link of Bart Stern testimony:

- http://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/personal-history/media_oi.php?MediaId=2925&th=survival






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"The Holocaust." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 09 June 2015. <http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust>.

"Introduction to the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 20 June 2014. Web. 09 June 2015. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143>.

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