AboutDylan Pemberton Expertise My area of interest is the holocaust with particular reference to the Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp. I can answer most questions regarding the lead up to and the ultimate deployment of 'The Final Solution' including the Wannsee Conference, ghetto liquidations, the Nuremberg Trials, post-war 'Nazi Hunting' by the likes of Simon Weisenthal etc. My knowledge / experience is perhaps best suited to someone who - for example - had a homework / coursework assignment in this area as opposed to a professional interest in which case there are, naturally, recognised experts and historians available.
Experience Lifelong interest in ensuring the events of the holocaust are never forgotten, visits to Auschwitz Birkenau and extensive literature on the subject.
Education/Credentials 10 GCSE's, several A-Levels, BTEC National Diploma Graphic Design, 15 years senior level business experience.
Question Hello, how are you going? I have a question about Jewish people and how the Nazis used to round them up all at once and take them away and kill them. That is terrible what they did. I was just wondering if there were any Jews who outwitted their captors and escaped, and who overpowered the Nazis and got away, or who tricked them and escaped with their lives
Answer Hi Christina,
Yes there were many cases (many being perhaps the wrong word as it has to be relative to the >6m jews murdered by the Nazis) of people who escaped which range from people who survived being shot and managing to crawl out of mass graves to groups of people who were helped / saved by heroic people like Oskar Schindler. There were a few instances of uprisings against the Nazis, some successful but more often unsuccessful or with a terrible punitive response/backlash being dished out by the Nazis in retaliation.
Ultimately, if the Nazis had had their way, there would have been no survivors and no-one to tell the world what they did so the whole world is fortunate that there were a relatively small number of people who managed to survive the holocaust.
