How A Little Jewish Boy Survived A Gas Chamber And Survived A Concentration Camp
Sometimes such mysterious events happen to a person that it is impossible to answer the question of whether it is a blessing or a curse. An incredible and inexplicable story happened to a little Jewish boy during World War II. The Nazis of the concentration camp tried to execute the innocent child six times, but each time he managed to survive and later escape.
Captured by the Nazis
Moshe Pir was born in 1933. Their family lived in France, and at the time of the occupation of the country by German troops, the boy was only 6 years old. When the mass repression of Jews began, the family was unable to hide and avoid imprisonment in a concentration camp. That’s how nine-year-old Moshe and his brother and sister ended up in the Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany. The children were separated from their mother: the woman was sent to Auschwitz, Poland, and nothing more was known about her.
The Nazis sent the boy to the gas chamber six times with other suicide bombers. Moshe himself said that the gas had no effect on him. He remained conscious, heard the screams and death groans of the agony of others around him in the darkness and crampedness, but he himself experienced neither pain nor suffering. The guards, when they opened the death chamber, were amazed that the child was the only survivor, but they made no other attempts to kill him, only sent the boy to test his strength time and time again.
Life after the war
After surviving, Moshe was reunited with his father, brother and sister in Paris, and they moved to Israel. There, Peer wrote a book called “Unforgettable Bergen-Belsen,” in which he recounted the horrors he endured in the concentration camp.
The world was skeptical about his story. Many people did not believe that a child, no matter how healthy and resilient, could not survive the effects of poisonous gas. Some critics also claimed that there were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen at all.
However, this in no way detracts from all the horrors that a young nine-year-old child had to endure. Perhaps the psyche distorted the perception of reality, replaced memories so that the boy would have hope for salvation, so that there would be a will to live. It was not for nothing that Moshe wrote that salvation was his only goal in the camp.
At the moment, the man is 89 years old. He managed not only to survive the war and all the horrors of the genocide of the Jewish nation, but also to meet his relatives and live to a ripe old age.