Blog Number 2

The word that was most surprisng in my eyes was Adolf Eichmann. It surprised me because he was a Nazi official who administered the concentration camps. This is the most interesting and surprising entry in our holocaust dictionary to me. I was not aware that Eichmann was the man behind all of the death camps, ghettos, and the holocaust in general. Hitler was the name most heard, and in the pictures that were put up through out the world. When someone thinks of the word "Holocaust", almost always they think of Adolf Hitler. Yet, they should really be thinking of Adolf Eichmann. He organized all of this horrible time, and I was defiantly surprised that I had not heard of this name before. Through out all the years I have been in school and learning about the holocaust, I never heard of him. I think that teachers really should start teaching about him, along with Hitler, because he was defiantly a huge part of the Holocaust. 

Blog Number 1 Part 1 Reflection

The part that stood out was when the guy died when they were sewing. 

page 34, "On the floor i see stretched out, hardly breathing, a young man. His eyes are closed, his face ashen, his hands pressed against his heart. From his lips blood silently flows over his bony chin and forms one big black spot on the wooden floor."

It shows how you never know when your going to die. Anything can happen at any time. 

Blog 16: The Cage. As A Nazi Journalist

April has just begun and it is 1940, the Nazi's are fulfilling Hitlers commands and are beginning to invade Lodz Poland. They are going to every Jewish house and taking their Jewish belongings. They are torturing and killing Jews. The people of the town cannot do anything because the soldiers are trained and well armed. The shouts of terror fill the town as the Jews are being ordered around. STOP! GO! RUN! FASTER, FASTER! They showed their ruthless ways when a pregnant woman was being tortured by the Nazi Party. Everyone watched except for a single man that ran out to help the pregnant soon-to-be mother. Before he could help her he was halted by the butt of a gun. Two more innocent people murdered by Hitlers orders. 

Men to one side, women and children to another! Were the first words the Jews heard at the train station. Women and children were free to go while the men marched their way to death. They ran home while hey could to see their families awaiting miserably, crying as their beloved ones finally reached their arms. It makes me sick, I can't wait until Hitler finishes them off.

blog 15

In your groups, take some time to collect information and provide each topic below with a thorough explanation. This may be a definition or a small summary of the event.

You are encouraged to include quotations and facts from other websites, provided that you cite them correctly. Try to be as detailed as possible, (i.e. include dates, famous people, etc.).

a. The Jewish Holocaust- The Genocideof nearly 6 million Jews during WWII. The genocide was led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.  

b. The Nazi Party- a group of German Nazi soldiers that were led by Adolf Hitler

c. Ruth Minsky Sender- The author of "The Cage". She was a Holocaust survivor. She survived the camp of Auschwitz.  

d. Auschwitz, Mittelsteine, Grafenort-They were the major Concentration Camps that all of the victems of the Holocaust were sent to and many were abused, tortured, and killed. The camps ended after the Holocaust ended. 

e. personal memoir-