1944

Simon Wiesenthal The holocaust was one of the biggest tragedies, a very dark moment in human civilization. It was a massacre led by Adolf Hitler. The holocaust made a great impact on the world and should never be forgotten. Simon Wiesenthal positively influenced the world by becoming a Nazi hunter to work for justice and through his many pieces of literature he educated others on the religious issue that took place as shown in the book “The Sunflower.” Simon Wiesenthal was born at 11:30 p.m.…

Anne and the others in hiding were discovered and deported to the concentration camps (http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/). Another one is Night, a teenage boy, Elie Wiesel, was taken with his family from their home in 1944 to horrible condition camps, through it all, his positive attitude makes it better. Having a positive attitude is the best response to conflict, especially in time of war. To begin with, Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl, is a well known story…

The majority of large animation producers of the time were drafted in to produce informational films for a number of different aspects of the war effort. Animation was now being sought after as a form of motivating and explaining in an engaging manner due to its relatively simplistic nature of the time (Solomon, 1994). It seemed that animation had begun to move away from the notion that it could only be used as a form of entertainment. It was now being utilized for its ability to convey…

3: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Vice President Henry A. Wallace won the election of 1940, and were at the helm of the nation as it prepared for and entered World War II. Roosevelt sought and won an unprecedented fourth term in office in 1944, but this time with Harry S. Truman as his Vice President. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was really frustrated that another war coming and we had to prepare for it before any one got hurt anymore.…

most important criteria for middle school students is a high level of interest. The movie, Aushwitz Death Camp, was very interesting because it showed the evidence of this event with a survivor walking through his experience when he was a prisoner in 1944. Showing the piles of hair, shoes, and suitcases helped show just how many people lived and…

and Media Limited). Mr. Kertesz was born into a lower-class family in Budapest on November 9, 1929. Laws had been introduced from 1938 that cut back the freedom of Jews from Hungarian, but everything changed when Hitler invaded the country in March 1944. Imre Kertesz grew up as a non observant Jew with secular Jewish parents. However his death camp “Obligated me to be Jewish”, he stated in an interview with the Spanish…

About the Author: My name is Robert Williams, and i am from St.Louis, Missouri. I am 26 years old, and got my house bombed by the Luftwaffe, about 2 weeks ago. On December 16 1944, Adolf Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe. He attempted that with a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a bulge--hence the name of the…

Vivien was bornAugust 29, 1910 in New Iberia Louisiana by Mary Eaton and William Marco Thomas. Vivien attended Pearl High School. Vivien worked as a carpenter and saved the money so he could go to college to become Cardiac Surgeon, but his dreams were demolished by the stock market crash of 1929 (Great Depression.) He asked a Best friend, Charles Manlof, if there was a job at Vanderbilt. Charles told Vivien there was an opening in the experimental surgery room with Dr. Blalock. Although…

of Finland are still trying to pinpoint who exactly did it. Luckily through my research, one can say exactly who did it. The three teens that were killed, were killed brutally. Maila Irmeli Björklund, one of the two girls, was born on June sixth, 1944. She lived in Uusimaa, Finland with her family. At the time of the murder she was fifteen years…

Armed resistance Hannah Szenes was a remarkably brave woman who worked to defeat the Nazis in World War II. She was born in 1921 in Budapest and she herself had Jewish descent. She moved to Palestine in 1939 and studied at Nahalah Agricultural School and then Kibbutz Sedot Yam. She heard about the situation in Germany and surrounding countries and Hitler’s dictatorship. Yearning to make a difference in the war, and aid fellow Jews she left the safety of her home to join the British Army. 30,000…