There are still some Holocaust survivors in this world not a lot though and so one very special guest came to speak to Washingtonville Middle School’s students and parents. Her name is a name that I shall hopefully never forget her name was Sonia Aronowitz Goldstein. Sonia recalled those miserable days in great detail, describing how the women were starved, how they lacked of sleep, and also how they worked through physical, mental, and emotional suffering. Yet, every day she held out hope that the Russians would come liberate them. During the middle of Goldstein's speech she began to tell us when the Nazis took the women from their tents and had them embark on what she described as a death march to a small town in Poland.
| The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven | Book Review | | Tammy Mudd | 10/18/2011 | RDG 030 | The Book I chose to do a review on is “The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven” by Kevin and Alex Malarkey. In this book Kevin and Alex tell about the accident they were in on November 14, 2004. (vii) The accident was a near death experience for both of them which left Alex paralyzed. I chose this book because I believe in God and the power of prayer, faith, angels, life after death in heaven. Alex and his family having gone through all the trials, with Alex in a coma for several months, is an awesome example of the miracles God can do for us if we believe.
Through her influence Valerian was converted, and was martyred along with his brother. The legend about Cecilia’s death says that after being struck three times on the neck with a sword, she lived for three days, and asked the pope to convert her home into a church. Since the time of the Renaissance she has usually been portrayed with a viola or a small organ.
Her life and many deeds tell us about her strategic skills, intelligence, determination, passion and devotion that she inspired us all to find within ourselves. When she was diagnosed with progressive dementia and died the next year, all city buses in Montgomery and Detroit, reserved the front three rows with black ribbon to honor her and they were left there until Rosa was laid to her final resting place. Four days after she died she was flown back to Montgomery where she was lead out of the church by a horse drawn hearse. Later that same day her body was taken to Washington D.C. where, a bus similar to the one that helped her make her stand, took her to the capital. On November 2, 2005, her funeral was held in a church in Detroit and she was taken to the cemetery by a horse drawn hearse.
But the most convincing reason is the one she gives to us: “I wasn’t crazy about anything I had been called up to that point in life, and this seemed like the time to make a clean break”. At the end she keeps one of them, the other not. The first promise is getting a new name. The way she wants to achieve it by driving all the way through the cities of Kentucky and Oklahoma and where the car stops, (because there is no more gas left) that would be the name to take. The fact that the character leaves such an important decision to destiny is an important view to her personality.
Picoult continues on this theme of “saving” by using Suzanne as Sara’s crutch, as she makes her coffee each morning and informs her of any missed phone calls. While in the hospital, Sara receives a call from Jesse’s principal informing her of Jesse’s suspension. On the car ride home she notices a bruise on his arm from a needle and assumes he has been using drugs. Jesse angrily explains how he has been donating blood that gave Kate platelets behind the family’s back, in order to “save” his sister. After two weeks in the hospital, Kate developed an infection that placed her in a coma on a respirator, which is “saving” her for the time being.
We spoke to my grandmother for hours, we’ve asked her so many questions such as: have you ever been sick to the point you were hospitalized? She said “sick to the point I need to be hospitalized? No, I had some bad fevers as a young girl but never so sick.” Have you ever had a dramatic injury? she said “yea, I once fell of a bike full speed and fractured a bone.” Are you feeling any different from now, then 20 year earlier? She said, “yes, I feel so much wiser but physically?
The victims’ parents tell the audience through their words, stories, and pictures, of who the girls were and how they lived. They also display the girls’ badges, awards, certificates, and Bible that one had in her pocketbook the day she was in the church basement attending Sunday school. The white officials, who were more or less viewed as the antagonists, spoke of that same era from their point of view.
It became their watchword and their legacy. Rose spent five years in various concentration camps, narrowly escaping death time after time from the hand of her tormentors. Everyone in her family was killed in the death camps except for one of her sisters and an aunt. After the war was over, she was able to find the exact place where her family was killed. Her mother, brother and her little six year old sister were buried in Treblinka under piles of sand they had to shovel
Frida expressed her deepest feelings and thoughts through her paintings by frequently incorporating symbolic portrayals of the physical and psychological wounds she suffered. At the age of eighteen Frida was involved in a bus accident that left her with numerous injuries and psychological scars for the remainder of her life. An iron handrail impaled her abdomen, piercing her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive system. Her self-portraits became a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. On July 4th, 1932, Frida Kahlo suffered a miscarriage in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.