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About Bela

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When it happened and resistance.

Why she showed resistance

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About Bela Hazan, Transports, and Jewish resistance

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Combat instructor, Death march, and German evacuation

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Palestine, and Counseling

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Bela Hazan was born in December 1922. She lived in a town called Rozyszcze and had 7 siblings. Her father’s name is David. Because of her mother, Bela and her siblings were sent to the Tarbut network. Bela’s household language was to speak in Hebrew. She was later sent to the city of Kowel to a CRT “vocational school”. Near the Warsaw concentration camp, in 1939 during summer, Bela helped the Rozyszcze resistance group in their movement that was taking place at the time.

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At one point during World War II, Bela Hazan decided to go off to Germany. Once she got to her destination on German territory, it happened. Bela was transported with other Jewish citizens on a train that was highly overcrowded. Moreover, she was soon shortly forced to attend an all female concentration camp sited in Ravensbrück. However, Bela was immediately taken to a different concentration camp in close proximity to the docks of Lubeck city to the camp Malchov. Nevertheless, the twist was that Bela was assigned the occupation of the head nurse in Malchov camp.

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“Organized armed resistance was the most forceful form of Jewish opposition to Nazi policies in German-occupied Europe.” Ghettos are commonly found in Poland and in the Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union and in Poland, the ghettos were in a part of a city that’s dirty, an overcrowded street , usually for the poor, and an area that people would try to avoid living in. The Jews were forcibly sent to live there and to leave there home and were required them to live among strangers. Armed forces were essentially just Jewish society that were showing resistance and were fighting to the Nazis, guards, and people that were racially prejudiced and that find objectionable things of Jews. In addition, the Jewish humanity were prepared to fight the anit-Jewish population and refused to go to a camp without a fight (just like Bela Hazan).

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During the time of World War Two, located in Bedzin, Bela Hazan joined a resistance training group Callekibbutz Hakhsharahin. Afterward, Bela then became the combat instructor in the resistance group. A combat instructor in a resistance group was a person who was responsible to enforce and command orders, manage and control others in the group. Also, the combat instructors were the ones in charge to make plans for what the resistance group would do next. Furthermore, combat instructors were as well the ones that would be accountable to have to train and be sure that others in the group were prepared for anything coming to them.

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Death Marches are where prisoners of war (POW) were forced to march from the current camp towards Germany and as they went, if they could no longer continue they would die as they fell. Bela Hazan unfortunately was forced to walk the death march that lasted a total of four days in the beginning of 1945, which who’s path was the major camp of Auschwitz towards Germany. Unlike countless of several others, she was fortunate enough to be a survivor of this horrid march and continued being transported to multiple places afterwards.

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To begin with, German evacuation is when Nazi’s and guards would completely empty out the Germans. In the evacuation areas, the Jews were banned and were restricted to be seen nearby these parts and zones. When the Nazi’s and other anti-Jews would wipeout the Germans, the Jews were taken to concentration camps. Essentially, German Evacuation is the removal of all German (Jews) in a certain area. Nonetheless, one of the German evacuations happened to the convicts from Auschwitz concentration camps in January 1945. Thus, Bela at that point was required to participate in a “death march”.

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From the numerous jobs that have been appointed to Bela in these camps, she then and there had to work in a concentration camp of Birkenau in the hospital. Because of Bela being around so many sick people all the time in the hospital, she well ahead tapered Typhus. Typhus is triggered by very small bacteria usually communicated by mites, ticks, and lice. This disease appears to be a purple or maroon colored rash, provokes headaches, high body temperature (fever), or intoxication / disorders. After that, Bela was bed-ridden and hospitalized. On the bright side, quickly well ahead, Bela recovered from her illness.

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Palestine was a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean. When World War II began in 1939, the members of Dror (the youth movement she was apart of) knew that along side as Vilna was not at war yet they could continue to keep their movement alive by heading to Palestine. Approximately six years later she did eventually went to Palestine, but not for that reason. She went to Palestine with a group of youths (consisting of all females) as immigrants.

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Counselor’s are those who are trained to help others and gave them guidance on multiple problems such as personal, social, or psychological issues. Bela Hazan, after the war had finally ended, became a counselor to the group of females whom she went to Palestine with previously mentioned. Mainly all the youths had survived the war but then pulled out their camps they had been forced in, their families had not. She became their counselor in 1945 and again as mentioned before, they all later went to Palestine in early October.

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