Holocaust AOW Impressions

 Quite a few articles that I learned about today were about survivors and their stories. In a lot of these articles the situations that they were in word definitely not ideal. One example a survivor spoke about how they were born in one of the concentration camp.   Another one talks about going into the camp at 15 and only surviving because they needed to greet people at the gate. Another one talks about how an Olympic medalist used force papers to survive in Germany.

 For the majority of the other articles we talked about new information coming up from the holocaust. One of them reveal documents about women being forced to have a Borsch and's and being raped, and confirmed the number of prisoners was higher than we originally believed being somewhere around 15–20,000,000 Jews. Another one talked about the fact that  holocaust Memorial day was not recognized until 2004 by the UN. And how the Soviets used the holocaust to claim that communism was far better than fascism. Then another one spoke about how not only Jews were killed but the mentally ill and disabled were killed as part of the trial project.

Perseverance Blog

The Nick as shown in the video is very courageous in dealing with his problem. Despite the issues he would have in doing most normal things with his lack of limbs. He also shows a surprising amount of integrity. He doesn't sugar coat his disability and claim that his life is easy, but he is honest and tells them that although his life is difficult he is happy and can have fun. Finally, Nick has enough  confidence to not be ashamed of himself. When he talked about being gawked at he was not embarrassed, but he would spin it humorously by seeming surprised by himself.

In sixth grade I was really struggling. I was always missing assignments, and my grades were slipping dramatically from the easy A's and B's that I was used to. Towards he end of the year I started getting better, and my mom puts it up to me not being used to middle school, but I think that for a time I kind of gave up. I'm glad that I'm doing a lot better now, but I think this was necessary to me realizing how important school was. This is similar to how when Nick was a child he was in despair about not being able to do certain things. We both have moved past that to better things and can now call that a lesson learned.

Berlin Memorial Blog

I learned that there are a lot of rights and privileges that we take for granted that could be taken away. For example the little things like being allowed to go to a pool or being able to eat a certain food are such staples of life that we hardly ever notice how essentially they areuntil they're gone.  The Nazis were very creative and taking away the things that Jews could do in their lives. They started by attacking certain groups of people and taking away the little things but those eventually added on to each other until there was very little the Jews could do.  I could not imagine being in that situation and I think that for the people who experienced it it must've been a very shocking wake up call.

 I think that they built this morning in order to keep the memory alive for the people who experienced it and for their family members. They must have realized what he did was wrong in the years after word and wanted to attempt to make it right. Do you know if they couldn't at least keeping the memory alive  would help them to remember the people who died for that. I think if it wasn't for morels such as these will you may not know as much about the holocaust as we do today. Thankfully the people of the past did not want us to forget.

 The numbers passed on different years usually we're not always the same. For example the year of the Olympics in Berlin and then you before that not a lot will pass, however in the years after words a lot of them work. Also in the beginning most of the laws passed only focused on certain groups, but towards the end of the war  they were more focused on the Jewish community as a whole. Also as far as I can tell the year with the most laws passed was 1938, two years after the 1936 Olympics. But not all of them had this many, most likely due to the fact that they were not trying to draw attention to themselves from the other countries. Also as far as I can tell the year with the most laws passed was 1938, two years after the 1936 Olympics. But not all of them had this many, most likely due to the fact that they were not trying to draw attention to themselves from the other countries.

 I think that's the one I would have the most difficulty with would probably be the law that said all Jewish people had to display the store on their home, and the law that states the Jews were no longer allowed to testify in court against Germans. This opens up a whole can of worms where Germans who maybe they're having a bad day, or maybe they just feel like it can go into any Jewish home and do whatever they want to them without any repercussions. The crime rate against Jews must've gone off up horrifically after this, because there was literally nothing but the people being attacked could do against their attackers .