Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer of Germany who ruled between 1933 and 1945, believe that an Aryan .
In order to create this perfect race Hitler had to get rid of all those .
who didn't fall in the perfect race profile. Blacks, Gypsies, the mentally and physically ill, and .
jews were Hitler's main target. The Jewish community was Hitler's main target. Hitler had to .
find a way in which he would get rid of all those who didn't match his Aryan race profile, so he .
and his Nazi comrades came up with the idea called The Final Solution. 12 million people .
perished during this time period. Many were shot, some others starved, and others were burned .
alive. 5,900,000 Jewish were killed, which was about 60% of the total Jewish population in .
1939. .
Dr. David Pablo Boder took up the offer of General Dwight Eisenhower to interview .
survivors concerning the atrocities that were being uncovered(Boder 1). Jack Matzner was a .
survivor of the Holocaust which occurred in 1939-1945. The life of Jack Matner underscores the .
effects of the Nazi plans of the Final Solution.
Jack Matzner was born in Wiesbaden approximately in 1901. Both of his parents were of .
polish desendence. He had one brother and two sister one of which had two children. Before .
Hitler came into power he worked in mail order business in textiles. In 1941 he and his brother .
and sisters were sent to Poland by the gestapo. They scape and managed to scape to France. In .
1941 he and his brother and sister were sent to concentration camps in Drancy, Paris, that was .
the last time he ever saw them. In one of the cattle cars he met Ludwig Lash from Hamburg who .
later bacame Jack's best friend. Lash had lost his wife a two children to the Nazis.
During the year 1941 Jack found out that his mother had passed away and this made Jack a .
little joyful because she didn't die in a concentration camp but in her own bed in Antwerp.
While in the concentration camp Jack job was to dig holes for telegraph poles.
