The Liberator

Gerda Weissmann Klein’s Story Over 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a persecution and murder of Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Gerda lived in in Bielsko until the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. She was 15 years old when the Germans invaded. Gerda Weissmann survived the Ghettos, deportation, slave-labor camps, and a three month death march. Although Gerda Weissmann survived, she came out with many disturbing memories and sorrows from the…

underestimated the Iraqi regime by minimizing the conflict as a continuation of the Persian Gulf War, a sentiment exacerbated by President Bush’s assumption that U.S. Forces would be welcomed as liberators. Such phenomena reveal another weakness in the Pentagon’s planning, a risk that proves to be an invalid assumption in the first days of the war. “When sufficient information is received to invalidate an assumption at a minimum it becomes an additional…

STAFF SERGEANT VICTOR V. CERVANTEZ MORENCI Army Air Corps Entered Service in December 1941 Gunner on B-24 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group European Theater, 8th Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 3 OLC Victor was 18 years old when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on December 1, 1941. Just six days later, the US entered the Second World War when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. During the great mobilization period of 1942 and 1943, Victor was stationed for…

The Abolitionist and Women Rights Movement The Abolitionist and The Women’s Rights Movement were two of the most prominent progressive moments that took place during the pre-civil war era. The abolitionist movement’s main goal was to immediately emancipate all slaves and to bring about the end of racism and segregation. The Women’s Right Movements sought to establish equal consideration for women in terms of human rights and societal roles. The two movements were intertwined in several aspects…

Somebody I had to look after. And in this world, that sort of shit’s good for one thing: Gettin’ you killed. So you know what I did? I wizened the f*** up, and realized it got to be just me out there.” -Bill - The Last of Us. The Remanent, The Liberator, and The Annihilator When the Superego is introduced into a place in which the Id is dominant, it will crumble, and it is forced to find the motivation within itself to survive. Finding that motivation is the foundation of Heart of Darkness and…

Eli Schweitzer Ms. Novaria 12.4.2015 Causation Paper In the beginning of the United States of America, Abigail Adams asked her husband, John Adams, to remember the ladies. By saying this she meant for John consider freedom for not only white men. Her letter to John Adams foreshadowed the social reform movement that would come in the 1800s. At about the same time, the founding fathers were arguing over what was to be included in the constitution. The North was opposed to slavery, but was…

It also remained in various areas in North Africa. North Africans Christian sometimes welcomed the Islamic Armies as liberators from the political and spiritual oppression. There were exceptions the welcoming Christians in Nubia, which twice defeated Muslim armies at Dongola and was recognized as a sovereign state by the Islamic leaders in the treaty known as a baqt, the…

because we were completely different people from those who entered the concentration camp. I was sure that if my consciousness had a body that it would look the same as the corpse that was staring back at me. How strange we must have looked to our liberators, rows upon rows of corpses, standing, staring, starving. We worked all day and ate so little, our faces were hollowed, our bodies lacked fat and muscle. I was a living corpse.…

In the late nineteenth century, America faced one of its biggest downfalls as the Confederates separated themselves from the Union. Tension grew within the country and the Civil War erupted. One major reason why this war began was because the Confederates wanted slavery, and the Union did not. The people who opposed slavery were called abolitionists and they were found throughout the United States. One of the most famous abolitionists was Frederick Douglass. Douglass was a politician, lecturer,…

Schindler Paragraph 6: Oskar Schindler is one of the most famous Jewish liberators in the Holocaust. He was forever immortalized through Academy Award winning movie, Schindler’s List. The movie truly paints him in a heroic light. Placed in the late 1930s-40s, Oskar Schindler was a Czech man that bought Rekord Ltd, a previously jewish owned business. With that business, he employed over 1000 jews from the Krakow ghetto. Later, numerous Jews of the ghetto were being liquidated to Camp Plaszow. In…