- Title of your 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!
Friday, March 23, 2007
Tuesday 3-27-07
Read through your Holocaust Book of your choice. Please read through it.make sure you are not copying word for word from your book! Trust me your grade will be effected!!
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The book I’m reading is called “art, music, and writing from the holocaust”. This book is about people that remember what happen in the holocaust and they are saying what they saw by pictures and writing about it some other people made songs about it. One of the witness say that he remember when they transported them to the eastern Europe to a place called aushwitz-birkenau where they transported them in train with out food or any drinks. He also remember how they will take people that were weak or not able to work to the gas chambers. He made a picture of a old lady, with two moms with her babies, and three little children’s send to the gas chambers. In the picture the faces that the women's in here are expressing is that they are sad because they were send to the gas chambers. A witness named David Olere made a picture of what he remember on the holocaust he made a picture of a lot of prisoners walking to gas chambers and the SS butting the prisoners, and the house burning and in there people dieing. Auschwitz was one of the six death camps that Hitler created the final solution in Auschwitz 1.25 million people lost their life's but people that survive write poems and songs of what happen in here. When Adolf Hitler came to power he wrote a book that talk about his beliefs and the way he express his feelings of the Jews people. One of the prisoner made a painting called the soldier that express what the soldiers will act with prisoner. Theirs a lot of pictures in this book but the book is to long. What I feel of watching all this pictures that the survivors did is how could they still talk about it I think I couldn't talk about it and try to forget everything. But I also feel that is good that they are trying to express what they feel by pictures that they did.
+Viewing of the Holocaust
+By Philip Brooks
+The pictures in this book are of Hitler, Nazis, the prisoners at the camp, and a survivor.
+Writer and child of Holocaust survivors Thane Rosenbaum has said, “the enormity of Auschwitz was so great that it cannot be canceled out in one generation. It lives, it breeds, it carries on. It has its own life and it’s living it through children of survivors.” Seventy-five thousand Holocaust survivors eventually settled in the United States. Together they had 250,000 children. Every family is different, some survivors never spoke about the past and others share the experience. Many children of survivors were born in displaced person camps to mothers and fathers who had often lost their entire extended family and all of their possessions.
This morning for my Morning Blog, I am going to write about the book that I read. I was reading the book “Martyrs To Madness”. I read in this book about how they made homosexuality illegal. The Nazi’s didn’t want there to be any Nazi’s on their soil. They tried so hard to exterminate all the homosexuals by taking them to jail. They put some pink triangles to know who was who. Magazines who wrote about homosexuals had to stop all the publications. Hitler let everyone know that future homosexuality would be punished. They would call it “The Plague”. They would get people and they would just lock them up. The Nazi’s were ordered to kill any homosexuals that were seen doing any kind of homosexual thing. They were prohibited from doing any kind of homosexual move, or activity. It was all prohibited. “In 1937 there were about 67 to 68 million people in Germany who were homosexuals… 7-8 percent of men n Germany are homosexual…our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague.”
I understand why they did or acted the way they acted, they tried to do the “best” thing for their country. They tried to keep it decent, and they tried to make the best of what they could work with. By trying to keep men with women and women with men, they were just trying to make sure they keep reproducing and they don’t just have a country full of homosexuals. I am totally okay with homosexuality though, so I don’t thing that trying to do that
Viewing the Holocaust Today.
This book explains how the surrender to U.S. and Soviet forces in 1945 was the only reason why the slaughter stopped. Retreating German forces tried to destroy evidence. They dynamited and burned buildings and records. They were unable to destroy all the evident because there was way too much to destroy. When the soldiers came to help the prisoners, they became sick and others began to weep. They saw things they could never imagine. Dead bodies piled like wood, survivors looking like skeletons, ovens. The book also explains how Hitler and many of his top officials committed suicide in 1945. Others faced war crimes trials and were hung or imprisoned. Others escaped but were arrested years later. The thousands of survivors were sent to displaced persons camps where they were nursed back to health. Of course, everyone was looking for their family members, few were reunited. The survivors emigrated to Isreal and the United States to rebuild their lives.
Its pretty crazy how the helping soldiers were able to help the survivors, I'm glad that they were able to save those people, rather than it to be too late and save none at all.
Section title: Hitler youth
Picture description: wounded Hitler youth fighters stand at attention during a ceremony in 1943.The Nazis prohibited this photograph from appearing in newspaper.
Summary-The battle of Berlin was fought by the Germans against in invading allied armies. Among the defenders of the capital city of Germany were five thousand members of the hither youth. Most of them were fifteen and sixteen years old. Only five hundred of the five thousand were left alive when the battle was over. From childhood they had been well trained to obey orders, no matter how inhume. They were thought to obey orders since they were 10 years old. But only the boys were the ones that had to follow orders, the girls also had to but they had different orders to follow.
Between 1933 and 1935, political opponents of the Nazis were the most likely to be sent to the camps. At first they focused on communists. There was a law that was passed that let the SS take anybody to the camps without going to trial. From 1938 onward, Germany began to take control, usually by force, of other European countries. Everyday the camp commandant was given the number of people that had died. There were also female kapos at women camps. The SS had dogs, and they were behind the Jews all the time. If one of the prisoners collapsed, the dogs would be all over them. The camps also had orchestras. The orchestras were made up prisoners, and they would play for the SS. The people at the hospital wre given less food because the SS said that they weren’t working. Some workers stole parts to make a radio and listen to religious services on the radio. People were only allowed in the bathroom first thing In the morning and that’s it. People were so hungry all the time that they would even scoop up the disgusting camp soup from the ground.
Reflection-3/27/07
The successes of the Nazis between 1938 and 1941 had convinced the Hugarian government to join the Nazi cause, and it entered the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941. While Jews in the rest of Nazi-dominated Europe were being Systematically destroyed as part of Hitler’s Final Solution, the situation in Hungary was unique. Though deprived of basic civil and economic rights and separated socially from the rest of the population, the 825,00 Hungarian Jews continued to enjoy a relatively tranquil life. All this changed abruptly in early 1944, when the Germans, having learned that the Hungarians were holding secret negotiations to join the Allied cause, invaded Hungary. Judith remembers the day the Germans marched into Budapest. It was March 19, 1944, and she mistakenly believed she was witnessing a momentous victory for her people.
The kids were very dirty and they had little insects and they mostly all had dysentery. They all got pushed in a little room and they got to sleep on concrete wall. Many of the kids knew or suspected what was going to happen. Many of the Muller kids survived because their parents had bribed the French Police. Many people would get arrested because they were born Jewish. There are a few survivors who still remember the SS soldiers. The way people were treated horribly. There was a kid who lay on the floor naked and they took him and bashed him against a truck so he would just shut up. The children who were in France got transferred to the gas chamber. More than 400 kids were all killed by insecticide. The kids were locked in a room and the got sprayed by insecticide. Many people knew that the kids couldn’t have done anything to the Germans, but the thought they knew the kids would grow up to be dangerous to the Germans so they had to die too. The Jews had been told by the Germans that they had to leave their money behind for safekeeping. The Nazi’s had seen every currency in the world. I think it’s amazing how these people got away with all of this. I don’t think history will repeat itself because our civilization is too advanced for that.
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