Danho

I have to agree everything I read in this book made me queasy. I had to stop reading it numerous times so that I could get back to my normal frame of mind. I would have never taken the job that this man did. I just image  one of the people you are inspecting being someone you had once known or them being a child of someone you knew. The twins experiments had to be the scariest because (as said in the video clip in class) if the one twin died the other had to be killed instantly after. I wonder if Doctor Mengele was in a right frame of mind or did he have some sort of mental issue that made him want to do this.

kiyomirk:

The events that are mentioned are truly horrific. I felt sick to my stomach just reading these; you can actually form an image of what is happening. It was shocking to find out some of the stuff that actually went down in the concentration camps. When he was hearing the seventy gun shots and then he walked out and saw the bodies lying there, it gave my stomach butterflies and not the good kind. This has enhanced my understanding of the Holocaust by the details of the concentration camps. I did not know much about the twin experiments and what it consisted of. I also did not know that they held autopsies on some of the victims to find out how they died. 

kitteringhamhistory12:

 When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous “Angel of Death” - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. In that capactity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this horrifying and sobering account.

kitteringhamhistory12:

 Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father, Shlomo, in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War.

I was surprised that other inmates told them what ages they should be (18 to 40) to be able to pass the inspection at the beginning. I figured that was the ages that they are most fit to be doing hard labour. It also surprised me that the Gypsies had higher standings than the other inmates and not equal. There is no doubt the Jews are the lowest on the standing list for inmates because of the Nazis hate for them.

My favorite part is when the Elie Wiesel sees the sign on the fence that says “Warning! Danger of Death.” Since he is in Auschwitz which is one of the most dangerous place during that time of course he thinks “Was there here a single place where on was not danger of death?” I defiantly felt the humour that was most likely in his tone while thinking this.

It was remarkable firstly to find an officer that had any humanity left in them (young Pole), and secondly the amount of free time they had. I cannot believe the amount of time it took for them to be given a job of some sort, it was not a couple days but weeks. I wonder if this extended period of time was what keep him alive?

The experiments explained here sound horrific. I can’t imagine how much pain the people were in knowing that their anesthetics were terrible then. I wonder (from a scientific view) if their were any results that actually change how we deal with medicine now? Was there any connection with the twins or was the experiments a complete failure?

(Source: history12-holocostchronicle)

kitteringhamhistory12:

 Click on the picture to visit a nifty online museum related to the Holocaust.

10 000 people a day dying from the gas. Did the people who were doing this have any humanity in them or were they so brainwashed by Hitler that they couldn’t see what they were actually doing? I wonder if any of the SS officers stationed there wanted to save some of the people from their horrible fate.

kitteringhamhistory12:

STEPS TO HOLOCAUST BLOGGING

The Same Instructions That Were Distributed In Class

STEP 1:

Go to www.tumblr.com and create an account

                - Fill in Email, Password, and Website name

                -Website name MUST include your first and last name                                        (Logankitteringham.tumblr.com)

STEP 2:

Go to www.kitteringhamhistory12.tumblr.com and click “follow” at the top right side of the page

STEP 3:

The first item that you can begin posting on is a YouTube clip of a Holocaust survivor who visited WGSS and shared his experiences at Auschwitz, the most notorious of the Nazi death camps. I have also posted a marking rubric and a possible list of guiding questions. I encourage you to blog on whatever strikes or grabs your attention while watching, exploring or reading about the Holocaust. The guiding questions are a last resort for those students that find themselves in need of some direction or guidance. Students who choose not to use the guiding questions will not be penalized and their mark will not suffer. In addition to the aforementioned YouTube clip, this Tumblr blog also includes short excerpts from five different books related to the Holocaust. At the beginning of each excerpt is the cover of the book from which it was taken and a short synopsis of that particular book. Everyone must read the one and only page from the book titled The Holocaust Chronicle. Of the five remaining book excerpts you must read and respond to two of your choice. There is also a picture of the entrance to Auschwitz, that when clicked is linked to an interactive online museum. You must respond to something related to exploring this website or to the material presented in the Holocaust survivor YouTube clip. That means you have a minimum of four items to respond to. You are required to offer up at least five deep and meaningful responses/reblogs. You can respond in any of the following ways….

1.       Respond directly to something of interest in the text on the page you encounter it on

2.       Summarize the entire excerpt on the first page of that particular excerpt

3.       Respond to something that someone else in the class has said

4.       Explain how something makes you feel

5.       Explain how the text has enhanced your understanding of the Holocaust

6.       Ask questions that others can respond to, but if you do this you must return to your blog and respond to their responses at least once.

STEP 4:

When you are ready to blog simply….

·         go to tumblr.com

·         log in with your new account (your computer might now automatically do this for you)

·         go to http://kitteringhamhistory12.tumblr.com

·         click the bottom section (posted) of the page you want to respond to

·         You should be able to see the responses of other students now

·         You now go to the top right and click on reblog

·         Entire your comments and click reblog post

·         The dashboard button on the top right is a convenient way to see your work and edit it as well.

·         Good Luck and enjoy

The Death March as explained by David was a march from camp to camp to get away from the Soviet forces which were gaining ground on the Eastern front. It amazed me that even though the towns he stayed at had camps, he still thought they were beautiful towns. His attitude towards the local population surprised me because I thought he would oath the Germans for what they did to him. His story demonstrated to me that the Jews that survived were very strong people with a large will to survive not just for themselves but for the hope to be reunite with their families.

When the camps were liberated why did it take a whole another day for true help to arrive?

Why did the Nazis feel the need to continuously have the Jews from camps in tow while they retreated (the March)?

“Rowing 

No time outs…

No half time…

Just 2000 meters of adrenaline pumping lung busting pain.” 

Delta Deas Regatta, and that was defiantly how it felt.