Barracks

the straw bundles in the barracks. The Germans checked everyone’s shirt for lice and “if it was any lice, you got no soup”(251). Vladek claimed that “this was impossible” as everywhere there were lice (251). This is an excellent example of how Vladek was finally impacted by the orders of the German soldiers. Often, Vladek was able to find a way to survive and find food but in this case, he had no chance against the Germans. There was no way to avoid the lice in the barracks and receive food.…

During WWII the Nazi Regime came to power in Germany. A genocide started to occur and it was called The Holocaust. The goal of the Nazi regime was to exterminate all of the Jewish people concentration camp is ¨a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy¨ During world war Auschwitz is a specific concentration camp that the Nazi regime made and it was…

THE HOLOCAUST The Holocaust started on January 30, 1933 and it ended on May 8, 1945. This event was the most horrific event in World War 2. This was a very hard time on the Jews of Germany. Millions of innocent lives were taken by the cruel dictator Adolf Hitler. Jews got to the camps by rail car with open tops that had no shelter for them whatsoever. The German authorities did not give them food or water while they were being transferred to the German camps. Basically, they started…

Can you imagine being put in a concentration camp at Auschwitz, where you could be split up from your family? Life wouldn’t be the same. You would not see your family and if you see someone dying in the Camp, you couldn’t help them unless you wanted to be shot. Life at Auschwitz was not the same as if you were living your normal life. There were no toilets, no clean showers, and not even clean drinking water. The Nazis made all the prisoners were slaves to them. If they didn’t follow orders,…

Imagine this - you’ve just left your home country to live in the United States. You’re coming to your first stop and you see a beautiful green island. Looks great right? That’s what you’d think. Until you got on the island, you didn’t realize you would stay there for months, and at some point you would be deported and sent back to your country in shame. Starved, tired, and lonely is how all the immigrants felt who passed through Angel Island, which was an immigration station from the years 1910…

The living conditions in Auschwitz were very unsanitary for prisoners. Furthermore, prisoners usually slept in brick barracks that were located inside Auschwitz. In each old, brick barrack were several hundred three-tier wooden bunk beds that prisoners lived in (“Living Conditions, Labor & Executions”). Each bunk bed contained 5 or 6 inmates. The barracks also had thin walls with no windows. Meanwhile, with only a bucket for a bathroom and more than 500 prisoners in one building, diseases spread…

I was given the chance to visit the Boise Art Museum recently, and was pleasantly surprised at the artwork on display. As well as the various stories behind them. The artwork was separated into different exhibitions and galleries for the viewing. Including the Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Kay Hardy and Gregory Kaslo Collection, Tall Tales, Laura Heit: Earth and Sky, etc. However, the exhibition Minidoka: Artist as a Witness caught my attention in particular. It was based around…

well as inspire hope in the future of the Americans. The inaugural speech by President Barrack Hussein Obama had a specific purpose which was a clear message of hope for the citizens of the United States. He sought to assert his commitment in supporting economic recovery and that as a nation, would overcome the difficult times. Each president used many of the same supporting…

Auschwitz: The Horrors Revealed Germany, World War II, in the height of the war, the Nazi’s were in power. In Poland, there was a place that would bring the strongest men to their knees, this place was Auschwitz. World War II was a terrifying time for the Jewish people; Auschwitz killed, enslaved, and experimented with these poor people. In the first and largest camp, the Jews were put to work as slaves; they worked so hard that some of them dropped dead where they worked. Auschwitz became a…

tonight i felt the need to. I woke up in the middle of the night to screaming , i look around me to see if anybody else heard what i heard, some of the inmates in my barracks were standing near the doors to find out what had happened. Several gunshots fired around us woke up the whole camp , i hear two ss guards outside my barracks speaking about two jewish males that died trying to escape auschwitz , they continue speaking about the two males for a very long time. The two ss guards finally end…