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In three pages this paper examines the survival skills and moral lessons the author learned as a young girl for whom the Holocaust was her childhood and her teacher. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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was a nurse. Then came March 12, 1938, when Adolf Hitlers Nazis annexed Austria, making it a part of the German Reich. The carefree life Ruth Kluger once
knew was gone forever. Her next years were marked with a permanent separation from her father and frequent moves from one concentration camp to another. Still Alive recounts
Ruth Klugers life story, but it is not the melodramas or morality-laden narratives portrayed in films about the Holocaust. It is a tale of one girls struggle for survival
by any means necessary, and considering herself lucky that she lived to tell about it. For Ruth Kluger, there was nothing romantic about survival; it was simply a gut instinct
employed to provide your body with what it needed to get you through the day. Hunger was uncomfortable enough, but Ruth had become used to the feeling of chronic
hunger. Thirst, however, was another matter. She observes, "Hunger was less of a problem than thirst. Those who have never been thirsty repeatedly or for a long
time are apt to have more sympathy for the starving... You can live for weeks, even months without food, but you die of thirst within days" (Kluger 100). Therefore,
the survival skills young Ruth acquired were comparable to those of a petty thief. She remarks, "It was common to steal from... provisions if you had a chance to.
Everybody who could did it. Nobody... questioned this practice" (Kluger 121). Along with her adopted sister Susi, Ruth "begged... stole, and both were relatively easy" (Kluger 138).
The goal was not to live a happy life; it was to endure and survive to see another sunrise. With life, there was at least hope that Ruth
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