...sunflower, had been planted. Upon seeing this, he experienced envy for the soldiers who were still connected to “the living world”(Wiesenthal, 1998, p. 14). Simon indicated his desensitization to death, but upon seeing the graves with flowers and knowing when he died, he would be placed in an unmarked grave with no flowers to tie him to this world, he felt bitterness along with a small hope that he “would come across them again; that they were a symbol with a special meaning”(Wiesenthal, 1998, p. 15). Arriving to the work site, Simon is approached by a nurse inquiring if he was Jewish. Acknowledging this, she took him to a room that had been transformed into a sickroom for Karl, a dying SS soldier. Karl’s story began with his youth and Catholic upbringing and he joined the Hitler Youth and SS willingly. He then gave his account of the crime he committed and was so desperately seeking forgiveness for. Simon listened silently to the murder of more Jews and walked away grappling with the thought, “here was a dying man-a murder who did not want to be a murder but who had been made into a murder by murderous ideology.”(Wiesenthal, 1998, p. 53) but his own death could come at any time from someone such as Karl. He left in silence and through the remainder of the holocaust and in the visit to Karl’s mother Simon kept silent. Simon clearly states his silence...
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...blasted camp. All of us live on what they bring,” Henri states to the narrator (Charters 152). Keeping themselves alive is of great importance. How can they even think of revolting? The language used by the narrator is also enough to prove that in no way did Borowski condone any of the things he was forced to do: “It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity” (156). The narrator realizes that, either way, the prisoners coming off the transports were doomed, so keeping them in the dark would allow them to follow directions calmly and have less anxiety. The narrator and ultimately Borowski himself were both at one point in that same stage of concern. The SS soldiers act in a nonchalant fashion when barking orders and sending people to their death, but the...
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...minutes | | | Objectives | Procedure and Activities | Time | Teaching Aids | Evaluation | Pupils will be able to : | -T greets the Ss, revises the previous lesson and checks for the H.w and corrects it with them. | 5 minutes | | | 1- Guess the meaning of the new words through flashcards and examples. | - T asks general questions and writes the first letter of each answer on the board :- Something lives in the seas and oceans? Fish- A country starts with the letter A: America- You use it to call people around the world? Mobile- Frozen water? Ice- Type of computer, can be taken anywhere? Laptop - The city we live in? YanbuThe letters form the word FAMILY, Ss read it loudly together.-T Hangs flashcards on the board asks Ss to guess the meaning of the new words through flashcards. (Appendix 1)- T has them to open their book on p.40, Ss answer the questions about Sara's family. | 15 minutes | FlashcardsBoardMarker | * What a family is? * Who is this? * What do we call our mothers? * What do we call our fathers? | 2- Practice and write the new vocabulary correctly. | -T distributes worksheets, Ss work individually. (Appendix 2)-After they finish, they solve it together. -T plays the CD, and Ss listen to the conversation carefully and then has them to practice the conversation in pairs.-T distributes another worksheet (Appendix 3), Ss also work individually. | 15 minutes | WorksheetsBook p.41 | * Look at the picture and write the correct word. * Read aloud *...
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...Secret’’ pp. 712-713, Alternative Assignment #4 Withney Belanger November 14, 2012 English 101, Section 16 Margaret Bratsenis Work Cited Griffin Susan. “Our Secret.’’ Ways of Reading. 9th Ed. David Bartholomae, and Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2011. 712-713.Print. Crystal Lee “The Effects of Parental Alienation on Children” Belanger 1 In Susan Griffin’s essay, “Our Secret,’’ she talks about her secrets and she gives detailed insights into her life and ones of those that suffered through the Holocaust. The three biggest parts that she talks about is her own feelings, secrets and fears, her own experiences, the life of Heinrich Himmler, Leo, Helene, and Chief of the Nazi SS. The way that she organized her essay was very confusing and it would jump around a lot so you never really understood how everything would come together in the end. Griffin’s says “The DNA molecule is made of long, fine paired stands. These strands are helically coiled” (Griffin 379). Griffin’s tells what happens to the nucleus, and how the inner-workings of the nucleus develop into a cell which gives rise to many cells, which will eventually become an embryo. So the cell is how someone was made with and your development can be affecting you as you growing up. Baby is born with no secrets, innocent with arms wide open and then she is implying that at that point in a person’s life is the only point where there are no secrets. Griffin’s...
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...How Did the Treblinka Inmates Escape? 2 August 1943 Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp that was part of Operation Reinhard –the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews. Treblinka was located 90 kilometres northeast of the city Warsaw and operated from July 1942 to October 1943. It was divided into Camp 1 and Camp 2. In the first camp, the victims were sent to the gas chambers and in the second camp their bodies were burned. Many of the victims, mainly Jews, came from the Warsaw Ghettos, and did not know where or for what reason they were travelling. Soon they found out the horrors they were about to face. As people arrived, men, women and children were separated. They were screamed at, whipped, stripped of their clothing and belongings, their hair was cut, before being sent to gas chambers that could kill several thousand a day. Those who were sick, old and newborns that would not stop crying, were taken away to be shot. Some men were taken as workers, called “Sonderkommandos”. These people had many jobs around Treblinka ranging from having to move the dead bodies and to checking for gold teeth, shaving the heads of those who were to die, rooting through the belongings for valuables, and cleaning the gas chambers. Their day-to-day jobs pushed them toward suicide, which was not uncommon. Life was unbearable and soon the inmates to realised that their only chance of leaving the camp alive was if they escaped. Zelo Bloch. Dr. Julian Chorazycki, Zev Kurlan...
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...web that every person in the world is a part of. This web connects us to every person that has had an influence on us. The people we see every day, our family and friends, are the ones directly connected to us. We meet someone new, another new connection in the web. We are even connected to people we have never met. Friends of friends, and people who we may never meet but have some indirect effect on us, form the outer circle of the web. We are all connected in some way to every other person. Susan Griffin explores this theory of a complex matrix of connections in her essay “Our Secret”. She employs a style of writing that uses several different threads of stories from her own experiences and the life of Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the Nazi SS, as well as references to seemingly unrelated topics such as missile production and cells to weave the fabric of her theory of universal interconnectedness. At first glance, each passage seems unrelated to the next, but after thorough reading a juxtaposition of the threads is evident. Through her entire essay, Griffin uses underlying themes that connect each thread and anecdote to one another. One of the main themes that is interwoven through her essay is child rearing and the effect that different styles of parenting have on the child later in life. One relationship between father and son she explores is Heinrich Himmler and his father Gebhard. Gebhard was a tyrannical father, not uncommon in Germany in the 1900s, who strove to instill...
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...Essential Questions: The Schutzstaffeln (SS) A) The Sturmabteilung (SA) functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Their main assignments were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of the opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties) and intimidating Jewish citizens. SA men were often called "brown shirts" for the color of their uniform. B) Adolf Hitler founded the Schutzstaffel (SS) in April of 1925, as a group of personal bodyguards. Thanks to Himmler, this small band of bodyguards grew from 300 members in 1925 to 50,000 in 1933 when Hitler took office. Between 1934 and 1936, the SS gained control of Germany's police forces and expanded their responsibilities. Because of these new responsibilities, the SS divided into two sub-units: the Allgemeine-SS (General SS), and the Waffen-SS (Armed SS). (Simon) states that unlike the SA, who were considered to be a separate paramilitary organization working for the good of the State, the SS was under Hitler's total control. Easily recognizable by the lightning-shaped "S" insignia on their black uniforms, they soon became known as the purest of all Germans. As the SS grew and became more complex, it matured into the spine of the Nazi regime. C) The Waffen-SS (Armed SS) consisted of three main groups. The first was the Leibstandarte, Hitler's personal bodyguard...
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...of innocent lives were taken in cold blood. It doesn’t matter whether your ancestors were involved, or if you were around to experience it, you only have to be human in order to feel for all of the people who were affected. Over the years studies like Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Study have shed light on some of the basic roots of human evil, but these roots are not enough to pave the way for forgiveness of the events that occurred. Simon Wiesenthal’s story “The Sunflower” exploits these evils and presently brings us into the life and character of Simon, a Jew in a concentration camp in Poland, who has ultimately been sentenced to death for just being born the way he is. He is brought to the bed of a dying SS Nazi soldier named Karl, who after telling him of his life decisions, asks for forgiveness as his dying wish. Simon leaves the soldier in silence, and we never find out if he ever truly forgives him. But Wiesenthal does leave us all with the question of what we would do in his position. With such brutalizing and horrific events, the atrocities that Karl commits are unforgivable because he willingly participates to take the lives of innocent people, which are acts that cannot be undone. When brought to the deathbed of another man, it is hard to imagine not granting his last dying wish. On page 54 Karl says, “I know that what I am asking is almost too much for you, but without your answer I cannot die in peace”. In this case it seems as though...
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