D.,+Nathaniel

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Responses and Journal Entries  __Responding To Holocaust Images (Directions):__  -Open paragraphs with a good grabber sentence, drawing the reader in, but also at the same time remaining relevent to the picture in which you chose. -Formulate an idea about your picture, and then come up with at least three supports that back the idea. Then provide an analysis of each of the supports. -In order to create a powerful image in your readers mind, use descriptive language that helps your reader understand what you are feeling when you look at your picture. Use simile, metaphor, and (If nessecary) personification in order to effectively place the feeling of the picture in you reader's mind. -End you response with a good closing paragraph where you wrap up all that you have said, and make a connection to real life. __Picture Response:__ I think that we have all done things in the past that we regret doing today. During the time period known as the Holocaust, a lot of things happened which were needless and cruel. Many Jews, Slavs, and Gypsies were slaughtered in cold blood by the Germans. All who were not totally of white desendent, or those who did not have one permanent home, were captured and sent to concentration camps. Women and children were shot down, and the men and boys were made to work. The killing was so heartless and so frequent it was as the the Germans were simply slaughtering some sort of stock animal. This all took place during WWII and lasted until Germany lost. After the war German civilians were forced by the Americans to witness the inhuman acts of their Nazi leaders by laying eyes upon the piles of killed Jews, Slavs and Gypsies. I am sure most of the people involved in the holocaust regret what they have done. It is hard to imagine someone so heartless that they can simply kill person after person after person and not feel any simpithy towards those that they are killing.  I wish that people now-a-days were made to pay for their mistakes like the Germans had to.

MUCH CLEANER, NATHANIEL. I AM NOT SURE THAT THE PERPETRATORS OF THE HOLOCAUST WHO ARE STILL ALIVE ACTUALLY DO REGRET THEIR ACTIONS AND I DON'T THINK THAT THE GERMANS WERE REALLY "MADE TO PAY" FOR THEIR MISTAKES. HOW CAN ANYONE "PAY" FOR SUCH A SHAMEFUL LOSS OF LIFE? SAD THING IS, THE WORLD SEEMS NOT TO HAVE LEANED VERY WELL FROM THE EVENTS OF WWII. I AM HAPPY TO SEE THAT YOU SPENT MORE TIME THINKING AND REFINING YOUR WORK. __Pictures:__


 * PROMPT SECTION:** First, either answer the questions for the given pages or take notes on the prompts given to you. Respond to EACH question or prompt as completely as you can. That means that you will need to write several items in response to each question or prompt.
 * REACTION SECTION:** Next, write your reactions to the questions you answered or notes you took. In other words, after reading and responding to the prompt, write down how you feel. What emotions are stirred for you? You should write one reaction for each item you have written in the prompt section.

The first signs of trouble are when all the foreign Jews are taken away from the town. Moshe the Beadle is among them and he comes back to tell the story of what happened after they were taken. He claims that once the Jews got to there destination hey were all executed and he barely escapes with a leg wound from being shot. The people in the think nothing of his words, and go on with life as normal. Everything is pretty smooth for awhile until the Gestapo show up a Sighet and turn the place into a Ghetto. Once again life goes on as normal and the townsfolk don't recognize the danger that they might be in. All is well until the order for deportation is sounded. All the Jews are made to pack up and leave there homes to be sent to a secret destination. The Gestapo isn't very kind in how they get the Jews to move along, often resorting the hitting them with the butts of their guns. The Jews of Sighet ignore the tails of Moshe the Beadle, taking him for a mad man seeking pitty from others. When the Gestapo come they get a little frightened but after a while it the Germans living with them just becomes another part in their life and they go about things as if all is well. The Jews finally start to get worried when they are all evacuated from their homes. And are made to travel to a secret destination which could be who knows what. There are a lot of tears during the journey, and my prediction is that there are going to be a lot more when they finally reach this secret spot.
 * __Pages 1-20__** **(due Friday 5/2)**
 * What are the signs of trouble?**
 * AND**
 * How do the Jews of Sighet react?**
 * My Reaction:** I don't think that it is morally right to force someone out of their home. I also don't think its right to wall in a city so that the people can't get out unless their captors say so, or that the Gestapo and the Hungarian Police are hitting the people needlessly. Its just cruel. When I read that the captors wouldn't let the little children get a simple drink of water I knew then that these men were heartless and cruel, and its no wonder that Elie hates them.

1.Who does Elie Choose as his teacher in studying cabbala?** Moshe the Beadle. Elie's dad. The Ghetto. That the order has been given for Deportation. Water. The offer was to take Eliezer and his family to her home elsewhere and give them safe refuge. They all disagreed, wanting to stick together. A cattle car.
 * __NIGHT Reading Quiz, pages 1-20__
 * 2.Which person is highly regarded in the Jewish community and pays more attention to outside matters than to family ones?**
 * 3.What term is used to describe the confined area where the Jews were forced to live?**
 * 4.One day, Elie’s father is summoned to a meeting. What news does he bring back to his family?**
 * 5.When the Jews were forced to stand outside in the hot sun, what were they most desperate to have?**
 * 6. Martha, a non-Jewish servant, makes an offer to Eliezer and his family. What was the offer and how did they reply?**
 * 7. When Elie and his family finally leave, what are they placed into for the trip?**

Madame Schachter is a part of the group of Jews in the Cattle Car that Elie is in with his family. She is a quiet 50 year old women with three sons and a husband. When the Jewish town of Sighet is deported, she is split up from her 2 eldest sons and her husband, and left with her youngest, 10 year old sun. The seperation from her family drives her mad and while on the way to the concentration camps, the signs of madness begin to show. She starts to call out in the middle of every night that there is a fire. To suppress Madame Schachter's outbrakes, the rest of the jewish company in the train car tie her up and gag her. When she resists their attempts to quiet her down, they hit her. When I read about poor Madame Schachter I felt sorry for her, that her family was broken up, that she went mad, and that she had to be tied up and hit in order for the other jewish people to get some sleep. I also feel bad for her little boy. It must be hard for him to watch his mother go crazy and then to get tied up and hit. I know that it would be rough for me.
 * __Pages 21 – 26__**
 * Who is Madame Schachter?**
 * AND**
 * What happens to her?**
 * My Response:**

that DESTROY faith?** On one such occasion where Eliezer first starts to wonder if there really is a god, is when his group is passing by one of the furnaces and he sees the bodies of harmless babies and old folk tossed carelessly into the flames. The cruel acts of the SS troops on the Jewish group such as them beating them, or making them run in the cold naked, I'm sure test the jewish's faith to its limits. The simple cruelty of the world makes them wonder why god would inflict such a thing upon them. They are underfed, exausted most of the time, and are made to work to stay alive. What are the specific acts, events and ideas that REKINDLE faith?** When the Jews got to rest at one of the camps near the end of the reading section, that probably helped their faith rise to the surface. Also when people in the Jewish group talk together about god and how all the cruelty they are enduring is just signs of His affection, and that He is simply testing them all. At the point where they were made to give up their shoes, Eliezer's are so muddy that they aren't noticed and he thanks god for creating mud in the universe. When Stein heres the false information that his wife and kids, who he was seperated from, are safe and sound, he probably thinks god is responsible for letting his family be spared from the suffering he is going through.
 * __Pages 27 – 44__**
 * What are the specific acts, events and ideas
 * AND
 * My Response:** I am not religious, and I don't understand sometimes that if there was a god, why he would make the human rase endure such suffering. I totally understand the Jews reaction when all these bad things are happening to them that they doubt the existance of a god who watches over them.

She claims to see flames/ fire. A group of the deportes from Sighet. Auswitch His father, and his distant relative Stein. 18 He is the SS officer who seperates the jews into their first groups when they first get to the concentration camps. His shoes, since they are covered in mud, they are not noticed. The number scratched onto Eliezer's fore arm for identifaction.
 * NIGHT Reading Quiz 2, pages 20-44**
 * 1.What does Madame Schachter claim to see on the train?**
 * 2.Who is traveling with Madame Schachter?**
 * 3.Where do Elie and his family finally arrive?**
 * 4.Which members of his family does Eliezer stay with at Auschwitz?**
 * 5.What age does a fellow prisoner tell Eliezer to claim he is when asked?**
 * 6. Who is Dr. Mengele?**
 * 7. What does Elie manage to keep hidden from the kapos?**
 * 8. What is A-7713?**

__**Pages 45 – 62**__ An example of an act of kindness in this section is when the French girl working beside Elie comforts him after he is beaten by the warehouse officer and gives him a ration of bread. Another instance where kindness is shown is when the Lagerkapo refuses to hang the little boy. that may not be considered as kind but it definetly showed that he had a heart deep down. Acts of brutality** There were a lot of acts of brutality and cruelty in this section. One was when the officer in charge of Elie's group freak out and started to beat Elie. Another was when the Elie walked in on the Idek and a girl having sex and Idek punished him by giving him a good whipping. All four hangings were particularly gruesum. Especially the one where they hanged the little boy and, wven when the boy was still alive hanging from the noose, they didn't ease his suffering, they let him slowly die. I thought it was really nice of the French girl to comfort Elie after he was beaten, but I admit that I was surprised to find out that she could speak German. I was horrified that they hung the little boy on weak charges, and then let him hang there suffering until finally he ran out of air and and his body could no longer function. I hated Idek when he whipped Elie for having walked in on him with a girl.
 * Acts of kindness**
 * AND
 * My Response:**

1.What does the assistant to the head of the tent offer Elie for his new shoes?** He says that he will keep he and his father together and that he will get them into one of the best groups. Idek is the leader of the Elie's group when he is at the concentration camp, Buno Because he wants to sell it or use it for barter. They find out later that he was keeping some of the gold teeth for himself. Elie walks on him and a girl having sex. In order to keep Elie from saying what he saw he whips him. The hanging of two men and a little boy.
 * NIGHT Reading Quiz, pages 45-62
 * 2.Who is Idek?**
 * 3.Why is the camp dentist so interested in removing the crown from one of Elie's teeth?**
 * 4.Why does Idek whip Elie?**
 * 5.At the end of this section, Elie remarks that his soup tasted like corpses. What had he just witnessed that led him to make this statement?**

There are a lot of instances where the Germans attempt and most of the time succeed at controlling things. In fact almost all of the things that the prisoners do is what the Germans tell them to do.Germans tell the Jews to work, and they work. One such instance is when Eliezer is told to switch blocks from he warehouse to the construction black where he has to haul around loads of rock and materials all day every day. Another time where the Germans are in control is when new selections occur. Dr. Mengele makes the prisoners run by him and he chooses which ones are still capable of efficiently working. Jews' attempts to control things** Most of the time the Jews may attempt to control things but aren't very succesfull. The Jews can control things in there own prisoner community, but they don't control the Germans. Little things like the Rabbi's attempt to get his fellow Jews to Pray for him when his death arrives. Unfortunatly they forget. There was a time where Eliezer and his father were in charge of their destiny, when they were faced with the choice of staying behind at the hospital when Buna was evacuated or traveling with the rest of the camp to deeper Germany. Unfortunatly they made the wrong decsion and went with the evactuation. Where as if they had stayed behind they would have been liberated. I think that the Germans are almost completely in control of the Jews. Yes there is the rare incedent alike to the decision that was gifted to Eliezer and his dad, but usually the Jews have to do what they are told or get killed. If they are told to jump they say, "how high?"
 * __Pages 63 – 80__**
 * Germans' attempts to control things**
 * AND
 * My Response:**

1. What two things does Elie’s father leave him as his inheritance?** A spoon and a knife. He is killed because he is too old. His fellow Jews also forget to say the Kaddish for him when he dies. His foot swells up a accumlates puss because of the cold. They will all be killed Wherever he walks, he leaves a trail of red blood because of his injured foot.
 * NIGHT, READING QUIZ, pages 63-80
 * 2. What happens to Akiba Drumer?**
 * 3. What ailment sends Elie to the hospital?**
 * 4. What do most patients believe will happen to them prior to evacuation?**
 * 5. What do the color red and Elie have in common with the evacuation of Buna?**

//__Powerful Quotations:__// __//**-pg. 84** "Around me everything was dancing a dance of death. It made my head reel. I was walking in a cemetery, among stiffened corpses, logs of wood.//__ __//**-pg. 90** " He played a fragment from Beethoven's concerto. I had never heard sounds so pure. In such silence."//__ //__**-pg. 90** "It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again.__// __//**-pg. 94** "Throw out all the dead. All corpses outside!"//__ __//**-pg. 97 "Suddenly a cry rose up from the wagon, the cry of a wounded animal. Someone had just died. Others, feeling that they too were about to die, imitated his cry. And their cries seemed to come from beyond the grave. Soon everyone was crying out. Wailing, groaning, cries of distress hurled into the wind and the snow. The contagion spread to the other carriages. Hundreds of cries rose up simultaneously. Not knowing against whom we cried. Not knowing why. The death rattle of a whole convoy who felt the end upon them. We were all going to die here. All limits had been passed. No one had any strength left."**//__
 * __Pages 81 – 109__**
 * -Pg. 81** "An icy wind blew in violent gusts. But we marched without faltering"
 * -Pg. 81** "They had orders to fire on any who could not keep up. Their fingers on their triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, a sharp shot finished off another filthy son of a bitch."
 * -pg. 82** "Death wrapped itself around me till I was stifled. It stuck to me. I felt that I could touch it. The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me. Not to exist any longer. Not to feel the horrible pains in my foot. Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor anything."
 * -pg. 87** "No one had said the prayer for the dead over them. Sons abandoned their fathers remains without a tear."
 * -pg. 88** "At every step someone fell and suffered no more."
 * -pg. 92** "A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow."
 * -pg. 93** "--there was no more reason to live, no more reason to struggle."
 * -pg. 95** "Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other. Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes; an extraordinary vitality had seized them, sharpening their teeth and nails."
 * -pg. 96** "Meir. Meir, my boy! Don't you recognize me? I'm your father... you're hurting me... you're killing your father!"
 * -pg. 96** "I was fifteen years old."