Ludi Romani

THE NONES OF SEPTEMBER had arrived, and so began the fortnight of games known to all citizens as the Ludi Romani. The four factions of Alexandria gathered at the Lageum amidst the massing throngs that swarmed in the hippodrome, all intent on a day spent in revelry and of racing, all intent on seeing Rubio of the Reds continue his winning ways. The placards and advertisements had heralded the Germani lad as the circus favorite, him reputedly having the finest quadriga of Libyans ever yoked and traced. They were well- publicized by the promoters and betting-house bookkeepers; Tuscus, Tigris, Victor and Raptore were almost household names before they ever set one foot on the racetrack. Whatever else of Rome the Alexandrians hadn’t taken to,…

Aryan or anyone who seemed unfit for the Nazis “ideal society” should be eliminated. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, The Romani’s, better known by their more common yet incorrect name “Gypsies”, were nomadic people who had come from northwest India and settled in Germany and were persecuted for hundreds of years. “The Nazi regime continued the persecution, viewing the Romani’s both as asocial and as racially inferior to Germans” (“Victims”). The Nazis considered the people this…

The Holocaust was a terrifying and terrible moment in history in which 11 million people had their lives stolen from them. That’s a little more than half the entire population of Florida in 2015, according to the United States Census Bureau. 6 million of these victims were Jews and the other 5 million consisted of a cocktail of different groups the Nazis deemed “inferior”. Romani, Slavic peoples, African-German children, disabled people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, opposers to the Nazi regime,…

Reading the title of the book reveals one of the main characters, Jakob. The back of the book reveals more information about him. He is a Roma boy living in Austria during World War II. He is trying to run from the Nazi’s persecution of the Roma people within Europe. Colors seem to play an important part in the book as they are in the title and are described in the back of the book. This book is a fictional story written by Lindsay Hawdon. After writing this book, she traveled to seven different…

I chose to continue my research on John Singer Sargent for my final paper because of his strong interest in the female image. I wanted to know why Sargent chose women as his main subjects. His works include women of high social class, children of the wealthy and political figures. He also did painting of women in lower classes that he came in contact with in Venice, Capri, Spain and Africa. In this essay I will be discussing his works, the history of the paintings and the meaning behind the…

Kayla Razo Mrs.Pilarte Language 8B Period 4 March 7,2017 Concentration Camps A concentration camp was a horrible place Jews were sent to so they could be killed in numerous ways. Some main concentration camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau and Belzec which were located in Poland. Also Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald which were located in Germany. These camps tortured the Jews slowly and painfully. Jews could only imagine being called up and having to go to these horrible camps where the Nazi would…

During World War II and the Holocaust, the Nazis created at least 1000 ghettos just in Poland and the Soviet Union alone for the millions of Jews they penned up (“Types”). The Holocaust was a time period in which Jewish people were forced into these extremely tiny ghettos and sent away to concentration camps. Over 7 million Jews and 7 million gypsies as well as other “outcasts” were murdered by the Nazi regime throughout the span of World War II. Within every ghetto and killing center, Jews…

St. Maximilian Kolbe Maximilian Kolbe was a saint who lived a normal life as a child and devoted his life to God at a very young age. Raymund Kolbe was born January 8, 1894 in Zdunska Wola, in Poland. His father was German and his mother was Polish, he grew up relatively poor. In 1914, his father was captured by the Russians and killed for fighting for an independent Poland (Maximilian Kolbe Biography). Whenever Raymund was a little boy he was presented by Mary two crowns when he was praying to…

diversity, gender, age, personal beliefs and sexual orientation to more narrow features of the personality like music or literature preferences, political views, involvement in sports and clothing style. Those are just a small part of the things people could find different between themselves, and each of them puts us in multiple separate social groups with others sharing the same inclinations. Being part of this natural process automatically means that there are groups with the exact opposite…

Why was it that the Jewish community did not comprehend the oppression and segregation forming as the Nazi Regime grew? As the Nazi Regime gained more and more authority, the threat towards “non-Aryan” men, women, and children began to grow. Jews, Gypsies, mentally handicapped, and physically disabled, slowly began to see antisemitism directed towards them. As Nazism began to spread throughout Germany, Nazi oppression became worse and worse towards those who were not “Aryan”. Between Dignity and…