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We Remember The Holocaust
Entry#1 3/18/11 Pg.1-7

The book "We Remember The Holocaust" begins with people's stories about what they remember from when they were in the holocaust. The first few people sound like the holocaust had "NO" effect on them what so ever and some of the people who can remember sound like they were german and were friends with jewish people watching their friends being taken from their homes, chased down, and shot in the street and didn't do any thing because they were to afraid to and they just were glad that it wasn't them. But then when you get to the 3rd or 4th page then you start to see some pictures of people being forced to do things they don't want to do.

Entry#1 Vocab. 1.Lebensraum- Living space 2.Reichsrat- the less important German government house. 3.Schutzstaffel- Protection squad 4.Fuhrer- Hitler 5.Mein Kempf- My Struggle

Enrty#2 3/24/11 Pg.7-14

Right now the people that are talking are starting to sound like the parents were afriad of their children coming home from school because Hitler started to make children start to become nazis and they were being taught how to become spies and start to beat up jewish people that are just walking on the streets. The jewih kids got kicked out of school and the jewish kids that weren't kicked out of school were getting beat up and bullied by the other kids it sounded very wrong.

Entry#2 Vocab. 1.Jude-jew 2.Suttgart- A german boat 3.Arbeitslager- Government work crew 4.Juden Unerwunscht- Jews not wanted signs 5.Mena'ar v'ad zakain, taf venashim- The young and the old, small children and women.

Entry#3 3/25/11 Pg.14-21

Some of the people are starting to sound like they are giving up all hope and sound like they are helpless and can't find a place where they can live with out being tormented, beaten, killed, and thrown in jail. It sounds like it got so bad in europe that parents were afraid of their own children and were afraid to walk on the streets and they ran away to a different country and were drug back.

Entry #3 Vocab. 1.Synagogue- The building where jewish people meet to have an assembely. 2.Kristallnacht- The Night of Broken Glass. 3.SS- Soviet Union 4.Dachau- A Jewish concentration camp. 5.Immigration Laws- Allowed more jewish refugees to go to the United States of America.

Entry#4 4/5/11 Pg.21-28

The jewish people are on an old broken down cattle boat headed towards palestine and the boat broke down and they were near the port of istanbul but none of them were aloud to come ashore then a tug boat hitched up to the boat and pulled the boat to the middle of the black sea and they were left out there for two months then the boat sank and every one except one person died. That was the only person to survive out of 768 people most of them died because they drowned the rest died because of the cold water or they died from getting stabbed by some sharp objects there were 78 children aboard when it sank.

Entry#4 Vocab. 1.S.S. Struma- was the ship in the entry that sunk. 2.Blitzkreig-Lightning War 3.Benito Mussolini-The french leader during that time. 4.Melamed-Jewish Teacher 5.Star of David-A jewish religious symbol

Entry#5 4/7/11 Pg.28-35

Now the jewish people are being kicked out of their homes and put in to ghettos and the people are telling stories about what happened what they had to do and what they couldn't do. They could only bring what they could carry with them the possesions they left behind were furniture, clothing. Their homes, and buissnesses became Nazi property.

Entry#5 Vocab. 1.Ghetto- A place where jewish people were fourced to move against their own will and they were terribly crowded. 2.Judenrat-A jewish community leader of a ghetto that was assigned by the nazis which were responsible of seeing that the nazis orders were carried out. 3.Benched Gomel-Said a prayer of thanks 4.Einsatzgruppen-Nazi murder squads 5.Resettlement-The jewish people dug a hole in a barren place and the nazis took the jewish peoples valuables and clothes then they shot the jewish people in the holes that they dug.

Entry#6 4/8/11 Pg.35-42

The people are starting to tell about what it was like in the concentration camps and how bad it was and how they felt about being in them. They sound very tourtured and cooped up like dogs. They are telling about people who tried to escape and what happened if they were caught.

Entry#6 Vocab. 1.Schnell-Quick 2.Macht los-Get going 3.Raus-Out 4.Reichsbank-The German National Bank 5.Kaddish-The jewish prayer said in memory of the dead. = Tyler-Not bad, but try to add more detail to your summaries-Mrs. W =

Entry#7 4/12/11 Pg.42-49

The woman who were in the holocaust remember that they were being degrated because they were stripped and took into the showers and got thier heads shaved so that they wouldn't recognize each other. They said that they felt ashamed, embarresed, and frightened all at the same time. They also said that this way their oppressors found to dehumanize and degrate all of them.

Entry#7 Vocab. 1.Dehumanize-The dehumanizing effects of war. 2.Schreiber-Someone who puts a tattoo that is all numbers on some one else in the holocaust. 3.Zyklon B gas- The nazi's used it on the jews. 4.Sonderkommando prisoners-Jewish prisoners that were fourced to take bodies out of the gas chambers. 5.Matzo-Food

Entry#8 4/13/11 Pg.49-56

The people who are talking about what it was like in the holocaust are talking about a guy named paul grueninger. The reason they are talking about him is because he helped many jews cross the austrian boarder into switzerland. Then they are also talking about a few others who helped the jews escape. One of the people that helped them was father Marie-Benoit he saved thousands of french jews.

Entry#8 Vocab. 1.Oytzer-treasure 2.Liberated-Showing freedom from conventional ideas. 3.Refugee-Someone who was fourced to leave their country. 4.Anguished-Expiriencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain and suffering. 5.Monument-A building or statue to commemorate a famous person or event.

Entry#9 4/15/11 Pg.56-58

In the book the people are talking about what happened after the war was over and about what had happened to some of the people in the holocaust like this one girl's father was on a train heading to auschwitz and her father tried to escape and hewas shot with a machine gun and he survived and he had permanent black and blue marks on his knuckles from being beaten so often.

Entry#9 Vocab. 1.Nish alle deutschen zenen gevein schlect-Not all germans were bad. 2.Mensch-A decent honorable person. 3.Humiliation-To make feel ashamed or to make feel foolish. 4.Shoha vissa-You will never return 5.Violent-The mean to be violent towards another.

The Diary Of Anne Frank Entry#10 4/18/11 Pg.1-4

The book "The Diary Of Anne Frank" is about a girl named anne who was alive during the holocaust and she was a jew and she went into hiding with her family and with a few other people who were living with them and they start to act like friends and then they start to act like they are getting scared and board.

Entry#10 Vocab. 1.Meip Gies-The person in the book who brings the franks and van dans food. 2.Yellow Stars-the six pointed stars of david with the word JUDE on it. 3.Green police-Nazi police who wore green uniforms. 4.W.C.:-Water closet; Toilet 5.Ration Books-books of stamps or cupons which were used to buy food.

Entry#11 4/21/11 Pg.4-8

They are becoming used to each other at their hide out and they don't want any one to find them they still haven't adjusted to each other and are getting some what board but in order to survive for the amount of time they will be stuck in their hideout. They think that anne was sick but she was just fine.

Entry#11 Vocab. 1.Loathe-To hate or dislike 2.Mazel Tov-Hebrew for good luck! 3.Vile-Disgusting; Hateful; Unpleasent 4.Indignantly-Angrily aroused by something mean 5.Interrupting-To interrupt something or someone

Entry#12 4/21/11 Pg.8-12

They are in a fight because Mrs. Van Daan has a coat that is made of fur that her father gave her and Anne accidentally knocked milk over on it because she was talking about what she wanted to do when she grew up when the war was over. She was moving around alot when she knocked over the milk then Mrs. Van Daan grabbed her coat and ran up the stairs crying and said she could kill Anne for what she had done. Anne felt real bad for what she had done.

Entry#12 Vocab. 1.Mauthausen-A nazi concentration camp in austria 2.Margot-Anne franks sister 3.Mr. Kraler- One of the people who brings the people in hiding food and supplies. 4.Mrs. frank-Anne's mother 5.Otto or Mr. frank-Anne's father

Entry#13 4/26/11 Pg.12-16

Now Anne is starting to get nightmares and she twists and turns in her sleep and in this one she woke up screaming No! No! don't take me! Then she woke every one up who was sleeping. In the nightmares Anne has the S.S. are coming to get her and they were pulling her away from her family and she can't get away. Then her mother tried to calm her but Anne asked if she'd and get her father and her mother went and told Anne's father that Anne wanted him and Anne's father went to Anne's room and he could sense that his wife was feeling hurt then he went to Anne to comfort her so he could get back to sleep.

Entry#13 Vocab. 1.Geh zu ihr-Go to her 2.Sie verlangt nach Dir-She is asking for you 3.Liebe, schau-Dear, look 4.Es macht. . . vor Angst-It's all right. I thank dear god that at least she turns to you when she needs comfort. 5.Menorah-A candle holder with nine branches. Used in a celebration called hanukkah.

Entry#14 4/27/11 Pg.16-20

Now it's Hanukkah and they are getting presents from Anne most of them were made by Anne but some were bought by Meip because Anne asked Meip to. Mr.Dussel started to complain about peters cat because of his allergies and peters father said he wouldn't have to worry about he cat any more because they were getting rid of it because it ate to much food that they needed then they started to fight again.

Entry#14 Vocab. 1.Jubilation-Rejoicing;a celebration. 2.Ostentatiously-With great show or exaggeration. 3.Gestapo-The nazi secret police force, known for it's terrorism and brutality. 4.Appalled-horrified;shocked 5.Disgruntled-Displeased and irritated

Entry#15 4/27/11 Pg.20-24

This is my last entry. Right now the people hiding are talking about the new year and Meip made them a cake and they are having another big fight and it's getting very bad and tense in the secret annex. The people in the hide out are all at each others throats except for Anne and Mr. frank. They are getting to know each other better kind of and peter is just starting to like Anne but not very much but as the story progresses they begin to really like each other.

Entry#15 Vocab. 1.Inarticulate-Speechless;Unable to speak effectively or understandable. 2.Guilders-The basic monetary unit of the Netherlands at the time. 3.Foreboding-A feeling that something, especially bad or harmful, is about to happen. 4.Toscanini-A famous Italian orchestral conductor. 5.Ride of the Valkyries-A moving passage from an opera by Richard Wagner, a German composer.

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