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This week we began of our new unit called, "Crimes Against Humanity." This unit will be historical, and you will write both argumentative and an informative papers. Since our anchor text will be John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we will spend quite a bit of time researching the main crime against humanity that everyone should be familiar with . . . The Holocaust, which occurred from 1941-1945. This was a genocide orchestrated by Adolf Hitler which targeted people of the Jewish religion. Unfortunately, this was not the first or last genocide which has occurred throughout history. Luckily, there were a few survivors of this tragedy that were willing to share their stories with the world. We are so lucky to be able to have first-hand accounts of this tragedy available to us. This week, I would like you to use some time to research The Holocaust and refresh yourself about what happened. Then, I would like you to look up a survivor of The Holocaust and read his/her story. Please comment back with with the survivor's name and a summary of their story. Go HERE to find interesting links.
Remember: You will not receive credit for comments that do not adhere to the C.U.P.S. rules or that are off topic. Please take the time to check your work before you post. I'm looking forward to this awesome new unit!
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Hunter Gordon
1/14/2015 04:23:12 am
I found a holocaust survivor and her name is Eva Galler and she was sixteen when this happend when she was on the train she decited to jump (because they was going to kill her) when she jumped off the train and she fell into a ditch after a muinute she couldnt hear the train.
Myles McManus
1/14/2015 04:59:21 am
My holocaust survivor I found is Lisl Winternitz. She was born on May 7 1926 and was 12 when the Germans came to Czechoslovaki. She ended up going to the concentration camp Terezin. They had 4 extra people on the list making 5004. 4 people were sent back to the ghetto including her. This is the story of my holocaust survivor Lisl Winternitz.
kinlee
1/14/2015 06:00:33 am
the holocaust survivor i found is Shep Zitler, Shep was drafted into the polish army in the year 1939. sixteen days after Germany invaded Poland Zitler was taken prisoner of war, Zitler stayed in various labor camps for 5 to 7 months, near the end of the war him and 10 other jews marched for 2 days straight, Finally Zitler and the other jews found a village and have now gotten married and had children.
Joza
1/14/2015 06:03:09 am
Thomas Burgenthal is a holocaust survivor. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1934. When he was 10 years old, the prisoners left Auschwitz on a death march to Sachsenhausen. Thomas survived this but had two of his frostbitten toes amputated. Soon after his arival, Sachsenhausen was evacuated, but he was left with others who couldn't walk. Then Russians came and freed the prisoners. Thomas would go on to be reunited with his mother and later, move to America.
Logan
1/14/2015 06:10:59 am
I found a survivor named Aron Derman. Him and his friends pulled the bars off a boxcar window and jumped out. When he jumped out he hit his head and became unconcious. The next thing he remembered was being woken up by a German guard and getting sent to back to the ghetto
julian
1/14/2015 06:11:17 am
I found a man named Samson Reichstien. His father died when he was 13 ,and a few years after he got married ,he was sent to jail for being Jewish. A drunken officer yelled in german and asked who spoke the language. When he stepped forward a gun was put to his head and he was told to say in polish "who killed the german soldier,". He survived and moved to america.
beau
1/14/2015 06:14:46 am
Ship Zitler was drafted into the Polish military in 1939 where he was treated badly by the other non Jewish people in the army. When the Nazis took over Poland, he was taken as a prisoner of war. He was moved from camp to camp for about 7 months. He took place in a march with about 10 other Jews and they were set free, they started a town, and had kids.
Isaiah
1/14/2015 06:19:04 am
My holocaust survivor is Aron (Dereczynski) Derman, who lived in Slonim.
Makenna
1/14/2015 06:32:29 am
My holocaust survivor is Mosze Fuks. He lived a a town called Lodz. His family owned a grocery store and they manufactured silk. In 1940 he left Lodz to stay with relatives out in the country, this is when he became part of the underground Zionist movement. In 1942 he was shipped off to a labor camp, after being there for 3 months the underground movement contacted him and gave him a escape plan. 10 people escaped the camp and they built a bunker out in the woods, they lived their for one and a half years. In 1944 Soviet troops came to the forest Mosze was camping in, after this he moved to Egypt and married his wife and had 2 kids. Fred Gross, whom by the way lives in Louisville, Kentucky, is a Holocaust survivor. He along with other refugees including his family, left Antwerp, by car, in order to escape Nazi persecution. After the war was over, the Gross family went back to Belgium. Eventually, in 1946, the family relocated to the united states! =+) (www.vosizneias.com)
hairly
1/14/2015 06:39:43 am
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Kaitlyn
1/14/2015 06:43:06 am
Jeannine Burk was born in Brussels, Belgium on September 15th 1939. She was a hidden child. She remembers riding a streetcar with her father and then walking to a woman's home. That's where she stayed from age 3 to 5. That was the last time she ever saw her father. She never knew the woman's name so she never got to thank her. Whenever the Nazis paraded, she had to stay in the outhouse in the backyard. She didn't know what she was scared of, but she says she remembers being petrified.
Mattie Adams
1/14/2015 06:45:04 am
Fanny Aizenberg is a Holocaust survivor. She and her mother spent time in different hiding places but were found, beaten, and eventually taken to Auschwitz. She and her mother were separated and she never saw her mother again. She was chosen for medical experiments and with the help of six encouraging women endured the horrors of the camp. She was forced on a death march and after 4 months they were saved by the Russians. She eventually reunited with her husband and child.
kylie
1/14/2015 06:46:17 am
the holocaust survivor i read about was Jeannine Burk. she was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1939. she, along with her two other siblings, were hidden from the Nazis by her mother who died at the age of 45, in 1950. she emigrated from belgium to the uninted states and is now a uninted states citizen. she is now happily married and has 6 children
Kati
1/14/2015 06:48:40 am
I chose to read about Irena Sendler, a Polish health worker who helped save children of the Warsaw ghetto. After the Jews had been sent to the Warsaw ghetto, a 16 block walled-area with a population of 400,000 Jews, she helped to smuggle out the Jewish children. She obtained a pass through the Warsaw Epidemic Control Department, and every day she went in and collected children to be smuggled out and given new identities. Sendler kept records of their true identities, (about 2,500 of them were found), and buried them in jars under her neighbor's apple tree. The children were adopted by non-Jewish families and survived, unlike the adults of the Warsaw ghetto which were sent to concentration camps. Eventually, Sendler was caught and arrested by the Nazis, held prisoner and tortured by the Gestapo, but she never gave up the identities of the children or her associates who helped her. Irena Sendler, known as the "Angel of the Warsaw ghetto", passed away in 2008 at 98. I found my information at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/irenasendler.html
Kirsten Houston
1/14/2015 06:52:08 am
Today, I have found a Holocaust named Dorianne Kurz. This girl's father had ran an optical frames branch in Vienna. She ended up in Bergen-Belsen with her mother and brother Freddie, while her father ended up in Auschwitz. Dorianne was taken out of the camp in June 1945 by the Soviet troops. A year later, she moved to the United States of America. I found a holocaust survivor named Alice Lok Cahana. She was originally born in Hungary and in 1944 she got transferred to Auschwitz. After that, when Allied Forces approached, she got transferred again to Guben Labor camp, tried to escape, and then ended up in Bergen-Belsen which was, "hell on earth." After the war, Alice came to the U.S.
Keeli Puckett
1/14/2015 10:27:39 am
My Holocaust survivor is Bertha Adler. She was born June 20th, 1928. Bertha was 11 when the Germans occupied Liege. Some Catholic friends helped the Adlers obtain false papers and rented them a house in a village. Her father fell ill, every Sunday she was suppose to visit him until her family was awakened at 5a.m. by the Gestapo. They had been discovered, she was gassed 2 days later. They decided to keep her alive just to torture her some more, she ended up surviving along with a few others.
Amy Burkeen
1/14/2015 01:35:26 pm
My Holocaust survivor is Nesse Galperin Godin. She was born in 1928, in Siauliai, Luthuania. Nessi lived in a ghetto they had established in Suauliai until 1943, when she was old enough to work. She was deported to a camp near Danzig, while at this camp she was put on the death march and nearly beaten to death, covered in frostbite while wearing only a dress, blanket, and some straw they had found on the ground. She had once seen her reflection in a glass pane at a hospital, her reaction was, "A skeleton covered with skin with big blue eyes." Her, her mother, and two brothers survived and arrived in the United States in 1950.
Makenzie
1/15/2015 09:49:56 am
My Holocaust survivor is Lbi Ginsburg. On March 19, 1944 the Germans invaded Hungary. Her family was taken by soldiers, they and many thousands of Jews were packed into cattle wagons, then they were shipped away. They were taken to a camp. There her and her family were separated, later on after being at the camp for some time she found out that her mother and 2 little sisters were taken straight to the gas chambers. She was forced to shave her hair and wear stripes. Then she finally got out, married and moved to England. The name of the survivor I researched is Jakob Frenkial. Before the war started, Jakob lived with his very religious family in a small town named Gabin. Gabin was home to one of the oldest synagogues in Poland. Once the war started, German soldiers came to Gabin and set the synagogue and most of the houses on fire. They were then sent to Auschwitz where Jakob and other children were lined up to be incinerated. Luckily, Jakob and his brother, Chaim, snuck into the line to get tattoos on their arms signifying that they were to be kept alive. After that, they spent 17 months in Auschwitz until they were moved to camps in Germany. Not long after that, the camp was liberated and Jakob emigrated to the US at the age of 16.
Parker Nance
1/15/2015 12:30:18 pm
I researched Irene Safran. She was 21 when she had to leave her home (Munkachevo), and move to the Jewish ghetto. She only lived there for a few weeks before they were told to get ready to leave for "relocation". They waited at a brick factory, guarded by soldiers, for 5 days before they had to get on a train made for cattle. When they arrived at Auschwitz they were put into 5 lines. One was for elderly and those who were sick (they were supposed to go to new homes). Her mother and sister got on, and were cremated that night. At this point she was only with one of her sisters, and they were showered, shaved from head to toe, and given clothes. Every morning they were counted, and if someone wasn't there, they usually found their bodies by the electric fence, where they had killed themselves. Almost everyday was the same; very little food, work, sleeping with 14 others, and being terrified of what would happen to her or her family. She didn't get to leave Auschwitz until 1944. Almost all of her family of 10 had been killed at that point.
Jaxon Polo
1/15/2015 12:42:25 pm
the name of the survivor I researched is Abraham Lewent. he was born on July 27, 1924. His grandfather owned a clothing factory and retail store that his father managed. He had a Jewish family and also went to a Jewish school. During the war his family was forced to take food and eat as little as possible so him and is family can survive. Abraham was deported to Manjdanek and then to seven other Nazi camps, including Buchenwald. He was liberated in transit to the Dechau camp on April 30, 1945.
Gracey
1/15/2015 12:52:39 pm
Eugene Black is a holocaust survivor, he was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928. On March 19th, 1944 the areas he lived in was occupied by German forces. Within 10 days the Jewish population was forced into the ghetto, where his family took other people into their home. May 14th Black witnessed his mother getting hit and put onto a lorry by the German military. He was also put on with the rest of his family. He was then taken and put on cattle trucks to be transported to Auschwitz, where he was separated from his family. After 10 days he was selected for slave labor. He moved around to work until he caught pneumonia and a German doctor saved his life. April 15th he was chosen for the British army. He moved to England in 1949, where he started a family and got a job.
kaylee mccoy
1/15/2015 01:15:00 pm
The name of the survivor I researched is Liane Reif. She was born in Vienna, Australia on November 14, 1934. In 1933-39 her father was found dead a probable suicide. On May 1939 4 months before the war broke out her mother booked a passage on the St. Louis, a ship bound for Cuba.Her Polish-born Jewish parents were married in Vienna and lived in a 14 roomed apartment in a middle-class neighborhood near the Danube river. Her father was a dentist and had an office in their home. In 1940-44 the Germans invaded France. They soon bordered a train for Limoges, which had not been yet taken by the Germans. At first they were housed in a stadium where they slept on the rows of stone bleachers with barely any food. She stated that for her 6th birthday her mother gave her as so called "the nicest present" which was a peach and some dried fruit. That is the story about Liane Reif.
kallie garrison
1/16/2015 12:39:22 am
Aron Derman, born in 1922, escaped (during deportation from Grodno) , from the bus. Although his experience wasnt good at all, he suffered little, according to other stories.He was trapped in a box car for a few days with many people, no food , no room.
kenzie murdock
1/16/2015 12:41:45 am
I found a man named Jakob Blankitny he says that they were destroying their Jewish symbols. His mother and sister got gassed when they got there. He said that they got tattooed numbers on their arms so they could keep up with them. He got separated from his father and got moved to a new place. He was a carpenters assistant and got injured so badly he could not move. Finally at the end American soldiers came and rescued him.
Alyssa Trombetti
1/16/2015 12:46:53 am
Name: Henoch
Samantha R.
1/16/2015 12:52:40 am
"The name of the Holocaust survivor I researched is Szlamach Radoszynski. Szlamach was one of six children, born into a Yiddish-speaking, religious family. T On September 1,1939, Germany invaded Poland. On April 1993 Szlamach"s family had either died in a Nazi ghetto or at Treblinka death camp. After a ghetto uprising Szlamach was deporthed to Auschwitz where he shoveled dirt on cremated victims. He believed he would live because his tattoo (128232) added up to the Jewish symbol for life. In 1945 Szlamach was deported to Dachau were he was liberated by a U.S. soldier on May 1,1945. July 1949 he emigrated to the U.S." Leave a Reply. |
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