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Irena Sendler Irena Sendler was born in February 15, 1910, in Warsaw, Poland. She was a member of Zegota (a group that helped Jews during the Holocaust) who at great risk defied the Nazis, and saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghettos. Her father died from typhus, he contracted the disease while treating poor Jewish people; She was greatly influenced by him, and because of him she decided to help the Jews during the Holocaust. Irena and her helpers made over 3,000 false document for the
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THE PIANIST; THE COLOR OF THE HUMAN SPIRT Color conveys meaning to us in many different ways. We associate color with emotions in our daily lives. Red is the color of love. Blue is the color of sadness. Yellow the color of sunshine and so on. These types of color association are ingrained in our subconscious. In film, color often speaks to us psychologically and allows us a broader understanding of the story being told. The color contrasts in the film The Pianist allows the viewer an understanding
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the round-up and segregation of Jews into ghettos. Before the war about 30% or 375,000 Jews lived in Warsaw but soon after September 1939, the Jews were targeted and anti-Jewish decrees were issued. Jews were forced to wear blue and white armbands of the Star of David and many also lost their jobs. In October of 1940 a Jewish Council (Judenrat) was established under Adam Czerniakow and then the ghetto was formed. By November, Jews were forced into the ghetto and the overall total with other refugees
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Germans established around 1,000 ghettos throughout Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union. The first official ghetto was placed in Piotrków Trybunalski in Poland in October of 1939. Nazi government created ghettos to control and segregate Jews while the rest of the Nazi Army was trying to remove the rest of the Jewish population. There was three types of ghettos created by the Nazi's: destruction, closed, and open ghettos. The biggest ghetto was located in Poland, where they had around
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According to dictionary.com, a ghetto is “(formerly in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.” Ghettos were formed by German police and Nazis to segregate the Jews from other people. Once Jews were in the ghettos, they were most commonly forced to do manual labor. Jewish police officers were there to serve German police and get them their every need. If they failed to do so, the German police had no problem shooting and killing those Jewish police officers
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The Spirit of the Ghetto was one of the fine works written by Hutchins Hapgood. Hapgood was an American journalist, author and anarchist. He was born in Chicago in 1869, but then was raised in Alton, Illinois where his father was a wealthy manufacturer of farming equipment. Hapgood lived in a small town filled with young, educated, middle class people until the turn of the century that traded the town for the city. While found the move from the small town to the city expressed him freedom to experience
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entries were horrifying to listen to, but when set to video of the event it really brought home how horrible this war was to live through by the civilians living in hard-hit cities. Mary Borg was a seventeen year old Jewish girl who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto and wrote in her diary about the great number of children left to be orphans because their parents were killed and how this affected them. She talked about how malnourished they were and how they looked like monkeys instead of children. These words
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Chuine Sugihara Do you know who was Chuine Sugihara ? If you don’t know, Chiune Sugihara was and still is a very important person. Chuine risked everything so that he could save the Jews. Chuine had a very important person, helping and supporting him it was his wife Yukiko. She was there to support Sugihara; she even helped him sign some visas. After, Chuine and Yukiko were honored as ‘’Righteous Gentiles’’ for their efforts to save the Jews from the Holocaust. Chuine Sugihara’s life To begin
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stomach up half way. The life where instead of thinking about others you can only think about yourself and what you need because if you don't, you die. The word ghetto comes from Venice, Italy meaning Jewish quarters. During the 15th century, Jewish people were forced to move to an abandoned area in Venice to segregate them. Life in the ghettos were crowded. Most the time the living conditions were unbearable. One apartment would hold many families, up to at least five people per family. There was no
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