She started to feel like she was “sinking into the ground” and “the floor was rising up to her face.” The whole room’s spatial position seemed to change constantly. She went to the doctor, and was told that her condition was “essentially normal” by several specialists. She started to feel like she was going to die soon, and although wasn’t scared of death, she wanted to live her life to the fullest. She went to the theatre with her husband more often, developed a new response to music, and spent hours listening to the “inner structure” of the lyrics and instruments in music.…
For my second book report, I read the book “All But My Life” by Gerda Weissman Klein. I chose to read this book because I thought it sounded interesting, and I always like learning more about the Holocaust and World War II time periods. I didn’t know much about the book, other than the fact that it is a memoir, but I was excited to be able to read it and learn more about history from it. Gerda Weissman Klein is a fifteen year old girl that lives in Bielitz, Poland with her family. The story begins on September 3, 1939 when the Nazis invade her town.…
After pre-reading the memoir, I now know that the writer, Olga Lengyel, is telling a horrific true story. A story that she herself experienced in the concentration camp at Auschwitz and Birkenau. The memoir paints a picture of a nightmare that the writer had to live through without being able to wake up. The cover of the book seems to be a picture of the concentration camp.…
Research Paper This Way to Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, was a very vivid and gruesome reading it showed the horrors and terrors of the inhumane acts the S.S. men had done during World War II in the concentration camps. Although the author himself being a survivor of the atrocities and nightmarish times of WWII in Nazi Germany one reading this story might find it too direct and descriptive. This style of writing to many readers might be too much for them to handle but I believe when it comes to important life events such as this one the person will want to be as vivid and clear as possible to properly show what that person himself in this case the author has gone through. I agree with this style of writing it clearly shows…
The Holocaust was, perhaps, the darkest time in Human history. Despite this fact, Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed has managed to shed a drop of light on the matter. A young orphan boy, by the name of Misha Pilsudski, is struggling to survive on the streets of Warsaw, and only manages to get by via stealing. But once Misha meets a few people to help him along, he soon forgets the tense situation he's in. Because of this, while he does go through a few tough times, Misha was definitely a lucky one when is comes to the Holocaust.…
Parents in this generation strive to convey to their children that they can pursue any career of choice. American children have this upbringing more so than other ethnicities due to the ideology of the American Dream. For instance, Chinese parents have strict guidelines for their children to abide by, and in most cases, they expect their children to pursue the lives that they tell them to. In a healthy parent-child relationship, there is a balance between parental guidance and individuality. Problems between the child and parent can surface when the balance is geared more towards one side than the other.…
“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.”…
Imagine Auschwitz: people’s eyes are filled with sorrow as they glance at the girl. Her ribs are detected from under her shirt and her nails were born with yellow stains that, just looked like she peeled hundreds of lemons. As a man sits up and grabs his whip, he shares a laugh with another commander and starts to shuffle towards the starving child. His hand grabbed the girl’s arm. After cries of pain the child limps with blood slashes and purple and blue fingers.…
The story entitled Prisoner B-3087, Alan Gratz, starts off in Krakow, Poland. The main character Yanek and his family are Jewish and have a great life in their that cozily fit the three members of the family. Then one day everything changed. The nazi’s decieded to make there town that they lived in into a ghetto. Soon, there were three other families that lived with them.…
Risk Takers and Safe Keepers Many people risked their lives to assist men, women, and children hide during the Holocaust. If people did not help the Jews out, we would have fewer powerful, and moving stories. A few of the many people who risked their lives to help the Jews: Marion Pritchard, Antonina Gordey, and Ludviga Pukas. These risk takers and safe keepers played a major role in the big picture of the Holocaust.…
Night is a book describing a historic nightmare known as the holocaust. It is a memoir written by a survivor of this nightmare named Ellie Wiesel. Wiesel, in writing this story, has become the voice of the millions who no longer have one. There is great power in the voice of one speaking for many and Night is the evidence of that power. The purpose of this writing is to sum up the memoir of the story teller, to describe the power of his one voice and to express the overall affect Night has on its reader.…
“Two Kinds”: The Role of the Chinese Parent in Todays Society. Many people wonder how Chinese parents raise such successful kids. Much of these speculations into the mystery of Chinese parenting styles are very recent. Chinese parenting practices focus more on being demanding and strict to guide their children to do well.…
The Holocaust and the atomic bombings were both tragic events in our nation’s history, however I believe that both were equally devastating because many lives were both tortured and lost. Even though lives were both lost and tortured in these tragic events, each event experienced different ways in which it tortured and killed people inhumanely. During the Holocaust the Nazi’s would torture and kill Jews in what were called concentration camps. Auschwitz, one of the biggest concentration camp, which was actually a combination of three different types of camps located in Poland.…
She almost died in the accident, but her father saved her by making a new body for her and her consciousness was transferred into this new…
She struggled with the losses she endured. In essence, those losses while painful to her were not as…