(Brown 2) Then August 4, 1944 someone tipped off the police and the Frank’s, Van Daan’s, and Mr. Dussel were all sentenced to attend the Bergen-Belson concentration camp in Germany. (Brown 2) Anne’s sister, Margot, was the first of both the families to die. (Gale 3) She died of a typhus epidemic that broke out in the camp. (Brown 2) Anne was never informed that her sister had died, but she had a feeling something was wrong. (Brown 2) Ernst Schnabel, on the topic of Anne Frank, wrote: “She sensed it, and soon afterwards she died, peacefully, feeling that nothing bad was happening to her.” (Brown 2) The epidemic killed around 17,000 prisoners.
Every single week the Gestapo would come in and take our valuables and even people! They would be sent to concentration camps, and others for work, but we never knew if we would see each other again. Soon the Pabianice ghetto was emptied and we were sent to the Lodz ghetto, I was only 12 for two years I sewed clothes for two years at a factory. Until in august 1944 we were sent to Auschwitz, my sister was sent to die and I worked in an airplane factory, when the Americans began bombing we were sent to the Mauthausen camp, after 10 days with little food or water, I was liberated by the Americans. Q: How has this experience changed your life perspective, on the need to respect everyone as equals despite their
Corll was born on 24 December 1939 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Corll grew up in a combative home and with his parents quarreling constantly. They were divorced while Corll was still an infant, and then remarried after World War II, but Dean's father provided no stabilizing influence, regarding his children with thinly-veiled distaste, resorting to harsh punishment for the smallest infractions. When the couple separated a second time, Corll and his younger brother were left with a series of sitters and leaving their mother to work to support the family on her own. Rheumatic fever left Dean with a heart condition, resulting in frequent absence from school, and he seemed to welcome the change when his mother remarried, moving the family to Texas.
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. Goldstein told the eighth graders that they were forced by their Nazi overseers to march for weeks like this, some dying along the way. Finally, she recalled, that they were marched to the top of hill. Below there was a valley with a barn. Goldstein described seeing the peasants removing the livestock from the barn.
They gathered and smuggled a small cache of weapons. Two of the leaders of the JFO, Joseph Kaplan and Shmuel Breslav were killed in September 1942, weapons were discovered, and hopes were lost. Hope was reborn on April 19, 1943, when new JFO leader Mordechai Aneilewicz (died May 8 1943) led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Rights a letter to Yitzchack “Antek” Zuckerman talking about how well the people of Warsaw are fighting despite the small numbers. Urges Zuckerman to start a partisan attack that would a) reconnaissance (scouting out the region to locate Germans) and b) obtaining weapons.
Hans and Rosa began to hide a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement until Hans made a mistake that forced Max to leave before the authorities came and found him. Alex Steiner, Rudy’s father, also made a mistake that threatened the authority of the Nazi party and he and Hans were drafted into the military. Hans broke his leg and was allowed to come back home to Molching. Late one night, while Liesel was in their basement writing an autobiography, the poorer part of Molching was bombed, where she happened to live and everyone was killed, except Liesel. First of all, the book provided me with many, somewhat random out of context, but interesting facts about what went on outside of the fictional story of Liesel Meminger.
Sophia Tolstoy was the second of three children, all girls, born to Andrey Evstafievich Behrs and his wife Liubov Alexandrovna Behrs. Her father was a physician and a student of his, Kukula, taught her to use his camera the summer she turned sixteen. Eventually, Kukula gave the camera to her as a present and she spent the summer recording images of her family and friends. Unfortunately, none of those first photos have survived, and it was more than twenty years before she picked it up again. When she was eighteen Sophia was introduced to Leo Tolstoy, who began to visit the family often.
Schindler joined, not out of any love for the Nazis, but because it made business sense to go along with it. In June of 1942, the Nazis began relocating Krakow's Jews to labor camps. Some of Schindler's workers, including his office manager, were among the first group of people ordered to report to the train station. Schindler raced to the station and argued with an SS officer about how essential his workers were to the war effort. By dropping the names of some of his Nazi friends and making a couple of threats, he was finally able to rescue the workers and escort them safely back to his factory.
The first was on a train when Death came to collect her brother, the second was when he came for a pilot who crashed his plane, and the third was after a bombing. It was during his first visit, that Liesel the main character discovered a copy of The Gravedigger’s Handbook, which was only a “first of a series of books she [would] find or steal”. It was after this moment that Death would forever think of Liesel as the book thief and decides to tell her life’s story. Liesel was left to her own devices while she lived her with foster parents, a
When Karl Seidl finished his story, he begged the Jewish forced-laborer to forgive him. Wiesenthal, however, rose and walked out. During the next two years, Wiesenthal shared this story with fellow camp mates, ending each time with: “Was my silence at the bedside of the dying Nazi right or wrong?” The incident and question so troubled Wiesenthal that, in 1946, he visited Karl Seidl’s mother in Stuttgart but left without telling the bereaved woman about her son’s misdeeds. A number of essayists chose to respond to Wiesenthal’s question thusly: “What would I have done [in Simon Wiesenthal’s place]?” Although Wiesenthal acceded to such a “paraphrase,” this writer agrees with responder Lawrence Langer that such role-playing about Holocaust reality trivializes the serious issues of judgment and forgiveness that The Sunflower raises. Forgiveness is, indeed, the essence of the debate that high scholars should enter into.