All of you received a Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it
- Title of the book or Section
- describe what pictures you see
- 15 sentences on what you learned ( use detail)and complete sentences!)
2 sentence reflection on how you feel!
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After the liberation of Buchenwald camp by the United States Army on April 11, 1945. The liberators tried as much of what they found as possible because they new people wouldn’t believe them. A lot of Jewish men fought for the United States Army against the Germans. Many Jews would go to hide in French farms. After the war the Jews had to get a card that proved that they didn’t have an infectious disease. There were also camps for women. They were labor camps and they had to work at spinning or weaving cloth. At the gates of Auschwitz 1, said “work will set you free” in German. Prisoners in all the camps had to do exhausting, often pointless, work all day. Jewish people were sent to the ghetto. Gypsies were also prisoners and a lot of them were at Auschwitz. All the prisoners had to wear a uniform. They even ran out of uniforms. They had to wait for people to die so they could give out those uniforms. The SS would make girls play famous music for them, that’s probably what kept them alive.
I saw a lot of pictures of really skinny people because they weren't being fed a lot. I also read that people would kill themselves by grabbing the electric fence and holding on. I feel sorry for those people.
First the prisoners had to take off their clothes. If they were arriving for the first time they had to put their clothes in a paper bag that they had to hand in for storage until their release at least, this is what they were told. If they were being moved from one prison to another they just handed in their old prison uniform. Once they were naked prisoner were often left for a long time sometimes hours. Sometimes they had to go through the whole process running the SS were making the point that things would be done when it suited them, without any thought for the comfort of the prisoners.
First the prisoners had to take off their clothes. If they were arriving for the first time they had to put their clothes in a paper bag that they had to hand in for storage until their release at least, this is what they were told. If they were being moved from one prison to another they just handed in their old prison uniform. Once they were naked prisoner were often left for a long time sometimes hours. Sometimes they had to go through the whole process running the SS were making the point that things would be done when it suited them, without any thought for the comfort of the prisoners. Within three years the number of prisoners quadrupled, from about 25,000 before the war to about 100,000 in March 1942. The camp population came to include prisoners from almost every European nation. Prisoners in all the concentration camps were literally worked to death. According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners registered in the concentration camps in January 1945.
The book I read today, was called “Surviving Hitler.” Its basically a biography sort of book based on a young boy named Jack Mandelbaum. He was about 13 years old. It describes the timeline between 1930’s to the war and the holocaust. The story explains how Jack and his family moved away from their home to get away from the Nazis. Jacks mother and brothers and sisters were to move in with their grandfather. Jacks father was in the military and had to stay in their homeland to fight the Nazis. At Jacks grandfathers house, they were safe for a little while, after a couple of weeks they heard about the invasion of Poland and war breaking out. After a while they heard tanks coming toward their grandfathers hometown. Everyone in the streets ran and hid, the streets were dead silent and the tanks were just going down the street. Jack couldn’t stand trying to be quiet and hide, he wanted to see everything. So he stood on the porch and watched everything pass by. This book shows pictures of Jack’s family members, houses, and pictures of the Nazis killing some Jews. I think this book is very educational. It also gives me an idea of how people felt during the war. Other peoples experiences. Its crazy how all of this happened and no one could stop it.
Auschwitz was just one of six death camps created to carry out Hitler’s “Final Solution”. Many spoken and written records from survivors of Auschwitz also exist. Hitler was born in Austria, 1889. Germany had been defeated in World War 1, which ended in 1918. Germany became a democracy known as the Weimar Republic. The German people were won over by his confident promises of prosperity. Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany’s troubles. Not all Germans supported Hitler. Many lost their lives for criticizing him and for attempting to end his cruel regime. In the years between 1933 and 1939, Jews in Germany were persecuted. The Einsatzgruppen wiped out thousands of Jews, Gypsies, and other undesirables in mass executions. Jews were forced to live in ghettos. Most of the people transported were never seen again. There were 50 prizes awarded each year to reward these writers for their loyal efforts. Hitler disliked all forms of modern art. To Hitler, all Russians were Communists and Slavs. Hitler built up a huge art collection for himself. I thought that this book had plenty of interesting facts.
+ Prelude to the Holocaust
+ By Jane Shuter
+ In this selection, I got to see pictures of the survivors and their possessions, Jewish people people celebrating together as a family, Jewish customs, burning of the Jews, the first Ghetto, and of course Adolf Hitler.
+ The word "Holocaust" used to mean "an offering to the gods that was completely burned away" but this definition changed dramically in the 1940's. Today the Holocaust refers to the attempt by the Nazi government to all Jewish people in their power. The Holocaust happened before and during the World War II. However, Jewish people were being prosecuted from the moment the Nazis came to power in 1933. Nazis found it easier to destroy a lot of evidence and/or to excuse their mass killings of innocent people. Nazi Party aims were to gain land in which to settle all German-speaking people. Another aim was to allow only German citizens to have rights in german lands.
+ As I look back on these pictures, I feel sympathy for the poor victims of the Holocaust. As bad it sounds, Hitler was very good at what he did, and the more I read the more I learn how close Hitler actually was to succeeding.
The book i'm reading about is called "the camp system". when the Nazis party led by Adolfo Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933. They wanted to make the purfect rules, so they made a camp for people that they thought of undesirable. They used this camps to educate people to like Nazis ideas. The camps were ordor by the SS that they were Hitler private bodyguards. One of the first prisoners were the political opponents and the others were the Jews but they were there for they political beliefs and the Nazis saw the Jews as a race. The Nazis were trying to killed all Jews for the hate they have for them. After the Jews where send to the camps they first went to the Ghettos they were forts to live their. the SS make roll calls to everyone in the camps to know if the people were still their. Camps prisoners were forst to eat the camps food and to work for them.
THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK IS CALLED AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUST.IT WAS BY JANE SHUTER. SOME OF THE PICTURES THAT I SEEN THERE WERE TREABLE TO SEE.ONE WAS LIKE THE KIDS WERE REALLY SKINNEY.AND OTHER ONE WAS WERE THEY HAD THERE CREAMATORYS AT.THEY SHOULD PICTURES OF SOME OF THE LEADERS AND SOLIDERS THAT HAD DID AND ACT. I LEARNED THAT MANY KIDS THAT WERE DIEING AND SOME WERE GETTING KILLED .THEY HAD TO COOK THERE FOOD IN DIRTY OTS AND STUFF. WHEN THEY HAD FOOD COMMING TO DELIEVER TO THEM THEY WOULD RUSH THE TRUCK AND THEY WOULD FIGHT FOR THERE FOOD THAT THEY HAD .THEY WOULD FIGHT FOR THERE FOOD BECAUSE THEY WERE SO HUNGERY. SO WOULD KILL FOR FOOD IF THEY HAD TO.THERE WAS MANY SS WOMEN THAT WERE TRAILING ALOT. THERE WAS LITTLE KIDS THAT AND GOTTING FEED FROM A A BIG POT TAHT WAS REALLY DARTY AND THERE WAS ABOUT 30 KIDS THAT WERE LINED UP EAT. THE LITTLE KIDS LOOK REALLY HUNGERY.I FEEL REALLY SAD TO HERE WHAT THEY WERE GOING THROW.HURTS TO SEE THEM LIKE THAT.
the nazis wanted to create a neww german empire the third reich this empire was to be far bigger than germany so it would have to take over countries the nazis wanted the third reich to be full of germans who would obey hitler and the nazis they began to take action against who might oppose them or who did not fit thier idea of a setting up the cap system the nazis began by arreslting anyone they saw a a political oppopenent they did not put these peple
Title of the book or Section (prisoners of war)
describe what pictures you see That picture that I have seen in this section are prisoners that have been already kill. This prisoners were killed in the cold ice and they were left there this happened in Malmedy.
They had a starvation policy were Hitler only made official a Nazi of violating the Geneva convention.3.8 million Russian soldiers had been taken prisoner in 1941,the Nazis had kept records of the soldiers these were deliberately starved and left outdoors in subzero cold to die. The more prisoners died the better it was for them. By 1941 a total of five million prisoners of war taken from all the countries they were put to be as employee in different industries or they were to be slaves.Resistence fighters in all the conquered countries were covered b y the Geneva convention. What I think about this section is that it is sad that they were killed just because I think that if I was one of them I would have done something for my own to prevent my death.
Title of the book or Section (prisoners of war)
describe what pictures you see That picture that I have seen in this section are prisoners that have been already kill. This prisoners were killed in the cold ice and they were left there this happened in Malmedy.
They had a starvation policy were Hitler only made official a Nazi of violating the Geneva convention.3.8 million Russian soldiers had been taken prisoner in 1941,the Nazis had kept records of the soldiers these were deliberately starved and left outdoors in subzero cold to die. The more prisoners died the better it was for them. By 1941 a total of five million prisoners of war taken from all the countries they were put to be as employee in different industries or they were to be slaves.Resistence fighters in all the conquered countries were covered b y the Geneva convention. What I think about this section is that it is sad that they were killed just because I think that if I was one of them I would have done something for my own to prevent my death.
Title of the book or Section (prisoners of war)
describe what pictures you see That picture that I have seen in this section are prisoners that have been already kill. This prisoners were killed in the cold ice and they were left there this happened in Malmedy.
They had a starvation policy were Hitler only made official a Nazi of violating the Geneva convention.3.8 million Russian soldiers had been taken prisoner in 1941,the Nazis had kept records of the soldiers these were deliberately starved and left outdoors in subzero cold to die. The more prisoners died the better it was for them. By 1941 a total of five million prisoners of war taken from all the countries they were put to be as employee in different industries or they were to be slaves.Resistence fighters in all the conquered countries were covered b y the Geneva convention. What I think about this section is that it is sad that they were killed just because I think that if I was one of them I would have done something for my own to prevent my death.
Reflection- 3/13/07
The Concentration camps were an important feature of the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. They were used for three major purposes. In the beginning they served as prison camps, where political enemies of the Third Reich were held without any recourse to the judicial process. After a few years, larger camps were set up to serve as prisons for those the Nazis judged to be biologically or racially inferior: the physically or emotionally handicapped, homosexuals, the Rom, or Gypsies, and especially the Jews.
The name of the book that I read is the Nazi Germany, The Face of the tyranny. This book starts out by explaining the way that the Jews life's were when they were free. The Jews lived in the Ghetto and at first they were all mostly farmers and didn’t have much. After a while they improved and owned shops and were business owners. Some of the Jews could even become German citizens but they will still get discriminated. It took Hitler twelve years to manipulate the Germans and make them think that the Jews were lower than them. The book also shows how Hitler would tell the people that when he was a ruler he would get ride of all the Jews. The German would also get manipulated by Hitler with jobs and food. At this time none of the Germans tried stopping him because he was too powerful. At this time the Catholics and the Protestants would kill each other as well as the Muslims and the Christians killed each other and all of them killed the Jews. In the early nineteenth century some German states made laws against the Jews. This are only some of the things that the Germans did against the Jews.
Tuesday: In this book, Darkness over Denmark, it presents the people of Denmark and their reluctance to give up and bow to the will of the Germans. This as it said in the book is a “David and Goliath” story that they fought against and strived to fight against the occupation. So far in the book I have only read trough the preface where it describes the position that it took in the war and the geographical position it had. Denmark was a neutral country in the first world war and wanted to also stay that way in the second. It was near another neutral country and of little use to the Germans so they did not use all of the full force that they used in other countries they invaded. Thought they had a non aggression treaty they were still invaded by the Germans this came as no surprise as the Germans captured several of its surrounding territories. But still the people in Denmark beat the occupying German force and managed to take out most or the ones that entered Denmark. Though Denmark was a Nazi country it celebrated diversity and did not share some of the same views that helped to overrun other countries.
Reflection- Though I have only read a small section of the book what has been presented to me seems to have promises of a very interesting read as the Germans who seemed unstoppable folded to the small community of Denmark. This book even has some relation to the Trojan as the Trojan horse strategy was used to smuggle people into Denmark this book seems to have it all deception, surprise, and the triumph of will.
Viewing the Holocaust Today
In this book I see a picture of Adolf Hitler making a speech. I also see the Nazi army marching down the street. There is also a picture of a guard beating a prisoner. There is another picture of prisoners being liberated by the U.S troops. In this book I learned that many survivors of the holocaust dealt with it many ways. Some when they had children they talked about it with them. Some didn’t even want their children to know what they went thru. I also learned that children of the survivors sometimes worry about burdening their parents with unimportant problems. I learned that Steven Spielberg helped many survivors of the Holocaust talk about what they went thru. Many of them didn’t want to draw attention to themselves of their families because they lived among the former members of the Nazis. I think that what happen in this time is horrible. How can people just be treated like that. I also think that people are very strong to survive and talk about it.
Viewing the Holocaust Today
In this book I see a picture of Adolf Hitler making a speech. I also see the Nazi army marching down the street. There is also a picture of a guard beating a prisoner. There is another picture of prisoners being liberated by the U.S troops. In this book I learned that many survivors of the holocaust dealt with it many ways. Some when they had children they talked about it with them. Some didn’t even want their children to know what they went thru. I also learned that children of the survivors sometimes worry about burdening their parents with unimportant problems. I learned that Steven Spielberg helped many survivors of the Holocaust talk about what they went thru. Many of them didn’t want to draw attention to themselves of their families because they lived among the former members of the Nazis. I think that what happen in this time is horrible. How can people just be treated like that. I also think that people are very strong to survive and talk about it.
As Hitler’s invading armies occupied the countries of eastern Europe, the Nazi’s were trying to deal with all the “nasty” Jews in Germany. There was large population of Jews. They were either Killed in mass killings by the Einsatzgruppen, or they were forced to live in ghettos. The ghettos were areas of cities or towns that were walled or fenced off to separate Jews and others, including Gypsies from the rest of the population. There were 356 ghettos in eastern Europe. They all became overcrowded, dirty, and unhealthy places to live or even just to be. Violence and cruelty were a part of everyday life. The people were always fearing of being killed or being deported. One of the worst features was that the Nazi's gave the responsibility to the Jewish council. Jewish police officers ensured that the rules were kept. By 1945, only a small proportion of the ghetto dwellers had survived to speak of their experiences.
The Germans wasted a lot of money and time trying to kill these Jews. They must have really hated them. They tried too hard to do something that they would have to pay for later.
This book is called Survivors of the holocaust. The section is The Camp Site. The Nazis arrested people they saw as. Political opponents and put them in special prison camps. These were different from ordinary prisons because camp prisoners were not given a trial and had no date for their release. They lived and worked in appalling conditions and they died, or were killed, in large numbers. The first of these camps, Dachau, was set up just four days after the Nazis won power in the March 1933 election. The camps were run by the SS which had been set up as Hitler’s private body guard. They all swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler, not Germany. The SS grew to take over parts of the army and to run the camp system. The camps were very effective. By 19 35, very few Germans opposed the Nazis. Instead of political opponents the Nazis filled the camps with people they considered undesirable people such as drunks, criminals, the unemployed, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and those who the Nazis saw as “inferior races”. The Nazis had very firm but very wrong ideas about race. They invented a race a group of people with the same ancestors in the past called Aryans.
The book if called life and death in hitters Europe. I see many pictures of propaganda and war. It shows how Arians are supreme to all and how they are the “master race” . For this section I learned about the reasons and fact to why they never stopped the Nazi. Other European countries did not try to stop the Nazi for several reasons. One reason was that they did not want another war like world war 1. another reason was that Hitler did not say “ I want to take over as much of Europe as possible” instead he claimed he was putting right to the injustice of the treaty of Versailles. Many Europeans agreed that the treaty had bin to harsh Hitler began by moving his army to Rheinlander . Then in 1938 he took over Austria where more than 80 percent of the population was German the other major European powers , France Italy and Brittan then agreed Hitler could make one “last territorial claim in Europe” and take over the Sudetenland a part of Czechoslovakia, with a large German spiking population. However in march 1939 he took over the rest of Czechoslovakia, and in September 1939 he invaded Poland. At this point Britain and France who had promised to help Poland if it was invaded declared war. They were to late. I also learned that while they had been concentrating on peace Hitler had been preparing for war in a speech made in 1940, Joseph gobbles. Hitler's propaganda minister announced “when the war is over we want to be masters of Europe.
The book if called life and death in hitters Europe. I see many pictures of propaganda and war. It shows how Arians are supreme to all and how they are the “master race” . For this section I learned about the reasons and fact to why they never stopped the Nazi. Other European countries did not try to stop the Nazi for several reasons. One reason was that they did not want another war like world war 1. another reason was that Hitler did not say “ I want to take over as much of Europe as possible” instead he claimed he was putting right to the injustice of the treaty of Versailles. Many Europeans agreed that the treaty had bin to harsh Hitler began by moving his army to Rheinlander . Then in 1938 he took over Austria where more than 80 percent of the population was German the other major European powers , France Italy and Brittan then agreed Hitler could make one “last territorial claim in Europe” and take over the Sudetenland a part of Czechoslovakia, with a large German spiking population. However in march 1939 he took over the rest of Czechoslovakia, and in September 1939 he invaded Poland. At this point Britain and France who had promised to help Poland if it was invaded declared war. They were to late. I also learned that while they had been concentrating on peace Hitler had been preparing for war in a speech made in 1940, Joseph gobbles. Hitler's propaganda minister announced “when the war is over we want to be masters of Europe.
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