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o Kitzmiller-Night-1-26
Sheckells- I Have Lived a 1,000 Years- 54 pages
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is "I Have Lived a 1,000 Years." I really like this book, but at the same time it is really sad. She gets taken away from her school and house about a week before she graduates. She has to go to the ghetto, where she never wanted to have to go, then her dad gets taken away. I think that everyone should get a chance to read this book because it really makes you think about how lucky you are to have all that you do. I think that she is a good person, because she just wants to forget about all the bad stuff. She try's to make everything better even though it is not because she has a house that has to fit two families, but some have to fit eight to ten.
Winstel- The Rape of Nanking 19-50
ReplyDeleteThe book is about the historical facts and events that happened during the invasion of Nanking in 1937. The book so far has talked about how it lead up to the Chinese and Japanese fighting; they both wanted power but the Japanese wanted it more and had more power already so it was easy for the Japanese to take over. The Japanese were trained fighters and showed no mercy. The book says from a Japanese persons point of view that they were forced to treat the Chinese in the most brutal ways possible. I think the book is going to be nasty and hard to read. I don't think that any one will be able to connect to this book.
Patel-Rwanda-19 pages
ReplyDeleteSo far i have only read the introduction, but it is alot to take in. I had to read it mulpiple times because it used a lot of African terms. I think that having this being epidemic of the Rwanda genocide started by politics teaches every country a lesson. that having a voice in government is good. this genocide was kind of a flash into the future if we had a tyranny. In truth, I think that so far this book is very informational and it makes you think.
Vlazny- I Will Plant You a Lilac tree- 52
ReplyDeleteSo far, I am very surprised by the choices the girl in my memoir has made. She was safe in the countryside, away at boarding school when she got a letter from her mom. The letter said that her mother and her two older brothers were being deported. Immediately after reading it, Hannelore writes her own letter to the Gestapo asking them for their permission to let her travel back home so she could be deported with her family. Once she returns home, she has very little time to put all of her belongings in a suitcase and knapsack, and go to the packed and guarded stock pens that they used as assembly places for the deportees. I thought it was surprising and brave of her to have the courage to return home to support her family. She had had a father that was already a victim of the Nazis, and she knew what she was getting into. The fact that she would sacrifice so much for her family is moving.
Rehman-The Story of Blima-1-43
ReplyDeleteThe book so far is about a Jewish girl named Blima. Her and her family live in Poland. The Nazis have just got done putting up signs on all of the stores in the community notifying everyone that Jews own it. After finding out this information she went home and found out that her grandfather had died, and now her family is going through that. So far the book is pretty good. Some parts are more interesting than others, but overall it is pretty interesting. I think that the book really gives a lot of information about the tough times that the people went through and how the Jewish people felt when the Nazis started taking over their communities.
Rose-Seasons Of Blood-72
ReplyDeleteMy book is about a group of documenters from BBC who travel to the African country of Rwanda. The book details what the documentary they eventually produced didn't cover. The book told the documenters reactions to the genocidal environment they had entered. The book has only begun to cover the details of what these documenters come across, so I'll have to write more once I get further in the book.
Adams First they killed my father pgs 1 - 70:
ReplyDeleteSo far in my book there is a five year old girl named Loung and she lives in Phnom Pehn Cambodia. What she doesn't know is that her whole world is about to be turned upside down. Now when the Khemer Rouge soilders evacuate all the towns and load them up like animals into trucks to be shipped of to their new home, many dangers will await them. When the people get to their new town everyone is treated equally and everyone has to look exactly alike. Also when Loung realizes that she is not going back to her home, like her father promised her, she will now have to face brutal situations, or suffer the conseqeneces.
My book, 'Killing the White Man's Indian', starts with the gory description of the extermination of an entire Native tribe, the Wiyots. They lived on an island off of a 'white populated' mainland. It describes how, in the dead of night, a small group, maybe six or seven, of white men snuck onto the island armed with hatchets and large knifes. They then proceeded to slaughter the entire island, men women, and children, as they all slept in their huts. None survived, all of them were horribly mutilated. It describes how they hacked away at them, brutally ending a totally peaceful tribe. There was no cause that would call for result, just the fact that they were Native Americans. It is these occasions that sickens me to the core to think of our ancestors and their lack of consiousness to the murder they were a part of.
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ReplyDeleteI accidentlly did my blog post on the wrong book i used my SSR book for some reason.
ReplyDeleteVillier- We are Witnesses- pgs 0-37
David Rubinowicz experienced many surprising things in his short life time. From the loss of their dairy shop and their cow to being forbidden from attending school his life was short lived and dreary at its end. When his Dad was taken into temporary custody he was really alarmed and i believe that i would have acted in a very similar fashion. Then one shock after another David and his family are gathering all of thier things and preparing to be evacuated from the city. The hustling and bustling of selling uneeded items and collecting food must have been a very stressful event for David. I know that it would be extremely hard for me to handle a sudden change like that. When the Germans began taking away people who were fit to work David began to really worry about his father and less of himself. I found this to be interesting because in the stiry "Night" Elie started to care more about himself and less about his father after being in the concentration camps. I wonder if David would have felt the same way if he and his father had gone into the camps.
Perry - Survival in Auschwitz - Pages 0-24
ReplyDeleteIn Survival in Auschwitz a man named Primo Levi has been taken away from his home in Poland and has been moved to the Concentration Camp in Auschwitz. Primo Levi talked about him being on the transporting train and being so compact on the transport trains that you would not be able to sit down because you were so close to the person beside you. Primo was also talking about before he was entering into the Concentration Camp he was having to change in the middle of the open with every other man, and how he found it remotely wierd. He was told what to do from a translator that spoke to the SS man, telling the prisoners what to take with them after changing. The last part I read was when he met a remotely nice SS man who told the Jews straight up and asked them for their belongings the Germans were going to take for his own personal financial needs, rather than supporting the army. I find some of this information almost hard to take in. I do not ever think I will be able to fully understand exactly what these men, women, and children had to endure during this camps with their unimaginable conditions. These are truely the unlivable conditions.
I am reading Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival. 1-28 This book so far has been about three independent filmmakers who are hoping to travel into Darfur to capture and show to the world the disasterous situation that is going on in Darfur. They plan to visit the refugee camps in Chad where the living victims of the genocide are staying. They have had a tough time getting into the country of Sudan because their broken government has been slow to process the paperwork. I am looking forward to reading the actual stories from people who experienced the genocide firsthand. Even though I have done a lot of research, it means more to me to know the actual feelings of the Darfurians. For me I could read all the statistics in the world and still not get the impact of one story. My goal is to get to at least page 100 by the second post.
ReplyDeleteIan Johnson- The Final Solution-1-30
ReplyDeleteI am reading about the holocaust, and right now, it talks about Adolf Hitler and his rise to power, and what he intends to do with that power. It also talks about Jewish boycotts that went on during the late 1930s. I don't like the idea that Hitler encouraged others not to patronize Jewish businesses. But nobody listened at first...
St. Pierre-Alive In The Killing Fields-1-55
ReplyDeleteIn my book, "MOP" and his family are asleep when suddenly they hear the sounds of the most feared people in Cambodia... " The Khmer Rouge." These people were known for the raiding of Cambodian towns/cities and the murder of many native citizens.The question is why? The Khmer Rouge wanted to over rule the old Cambodia and enforce a new one. Many families were foced out of their homes and into what can be considered concentration camps. At the camps they were forced to work in rice fields for 7 days a week on 18 hour days. In "MOP's" case his dad was hiding in the jungle and that was really all MOP had left in his family as the rest were murderd. On occasion "MOP" would sneek out of the camp and go find his father but that was once in a month. So far the book is very intense and it just makes you wonder if these so-called humans are even thinking about why they are killing mass numbers of people.
Wagner-No pretty pictures a child at war-1-47
ReplyDeleteMy book is about a girl named Anita Lobel. She was living with her mom Niania (nanny), and her brother. Her dad had been taken away by the Nazi's a month earlier and they have not heard from him since. They began to hear rumors that the Nazis were coming for deportation. Anita's family took no chance. They packed up their things and left for the nearest train station. But the problem was, all Jewish boys were circumcised, which included her brother. So they decided to dress him up as a girl to hide his identity. They all went to Niania's home far away in the country. Mother decided it was best if she stayed home so it wouldn't raise any susspicion. They rode on the train all the way to her house. They stayed there a couple of days until the other residents of the very small town realized that they were Jews. Niania decided that it was better for the two kids to stay with their mother in the ghetto until she could find a safe place for them to stay. When she did, she would go back for them. This is where I am at in the book. I think that this book is pretty good but it wouldn't be my first choice. It was very boring in the beginning but it is getting a little better.
Wesstrom- Hitler and Nazism
ReplyDeleteThe book I am currently reading is called “ Hitler and Nazism” by Enzo Collotti. The book has told me that Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January of 1933. Hitler beat Hindenburg for chancellor. Hitler got elected as chancellor of Germany mainly because of the Depression. The book also told me that Hitler got married on April 28th 1945 and died along with his new wife two days later. Hitler and his wife died from taking cyanide pills and Hitler also shot himself. They died on April 30th 1945. That is what I have read so far.
Smith- The Trail Of Tears 1-28
ReplyDeleteI'm reading The Trail of Tears. This book, so far, is about the removal of Native Americans in North America. Right now, it's about how the Native Americans felt about the war between the Americans and the British. Also it is about the plans that Native Americans were making to get rid of the Americans altogether instead of the other way around. The author has spent a lot of time talking about one of the tribe leaders and how he traveled from tribe to tribe, encouraging them to rebel. So far it is fairly interesting but it is very slow.
Yarrish - Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp - 1 to 30
ReplyDeleteSorry for posting this late; my computer has been acting up lately and I thought it was going to be okay to post this but it turns out it wasn't agreeing with me.
I am reading the book Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp. So far, in the first 30 pages of the book, the author has gone through the following topics relating to the Holocaust: planning the genocide, how the Jews and others were caught and how they were transported to the camps, and what typical conditions were like. She explains that after World War I, the Germans are in a deep hole of debt to the Allies that they trusted in the war; causing many people to lose their jobs and the economy to plunge. The Germans in short take their anger out on the Jews and the Nazi party creates a plan to exterminate their race completely along with blacks, gypsies, handicapped and any other race that is non-Aryan. She describes how the prisoners were transported by train to the concentration camps where they would often be tortured and beaten; killed for no reason with brutal and violent techniques like burning and shooting them. The prisoners were given little food and clothing; along with minimal space to sleep or move. The camps were often so crowded that a space meant to hold 13,000 people would be holding 50,000.
The book I'm reading is called Joseph Stalin and The Soviet Union. Thus far, in the book it has discussed the childhood and background of Joseph Stalin like his real name was Joseph Djugashvili and his home town was Gori, Georgia which was a Russian territory. The Georgians were not accepting rules and laws put in place by the Russians, this would be where he would grow up and most importantly become involved with politics (communism). His involvement would grow and grow over the years in the Bolshevik party (communist party believing in a more radical form of communism/marxism), until he would rise to the top. It would take a few revolutions and a civil war for the Bolsheviks to come to power but they would get there eventually.
ReplyDeleteSawyer-The World Must Know-61-74
ReplyDeleteMy book is filled with facts from the Holocaust. It talks about the things leading up to the Holocaust and Concentration Camps, such as the invasions of different countries. The Concentration Camps were founded by accident and were unanticipated by most people. One major topic that came up while I was reading was Anne Frank, who was the most famous child who died during the Holocaust. Anne and her family went into hiding when Hitler came into power. This was the time when she wrote her diary.
Thomas Snell-Tyrants and Conquerors
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pg. 28 (start)-45 (end)
My Thoughts About The Killing of Christains
The genocide I decided to focus my research on was the killings of christains that started in 64 A.D. and the mass killing of Jews in the province of Judea in 67 A.D. The man responsible was the emperor of the Roman empire. Nero was a young emperor who was only in his 20's at the time and ordered the extermination of all Christians in Rome at the time. The reason was that a rumor was spreading that he was responsible for the Great Fire of Rome that took place the same year. The fire would burn 10 of the 14 districts of Rome and the populace was infuriated. To get pressure off his back, Nero claimed that it was the Christians who were responsible and that they were the ones who responsible for the fire. This was mostly kilely false because coincedentally right after the fire Nero began great construction projects such as a new palace for himself. The persecution of Christains would continue for three hundred years. I think that the Roman citizens should not have been so easily fooled and that Nero should have been exsposed for the crime he committed. I believe that this showed the start of his poor desicions that would eventually lead to his pressured suicide from the Senate a few years later.
Andrew Starr- Genocide:The Systematic Killing of a people- 1-31
ReplyDeleteSo far in this book, the narrator has discussed about some of the other genocides. It also descibes what a genocide is and how we can try and prevent it. This is useful to know in the future. The United States can be considered to have done a genocide a while back to the Native Americans. We mistreated them and put them to use as slaves. Some people say this is a genocice and some argue and say it isn't. A lot of the other genocides that I've read about seems to only have one part, whereas the Cambodian Genocide as different parts. That was just one of the differences I saw between the Cambodian genocide and all of the other genocides. I am interested to keep finding new things that are different between the two.
Sarita Ricchiuto- The Chinese Nationalist Revolution 83-100
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading a section that mentions a bit about The Rape of Nanking. This section was very depressing. The Japenese bombarded Nanjing(aka Nanking in southeast China) killing everyone in sight, even if they were innocent. The People trying to cross the river were shot on the spot and actually clogged the flow of the water! Over 20,000 women and young girls were rapped and killed. At least 300,000 people lost their lives that day.
Reinhard-The Rape of Nanking- 1-35 & forward
ReplyDeleteThe book that I'm reading is called "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. The first section is page 1 to 35, and the foreword which is pages IX to XI. This section was mostly introducing the reader to the topic. The forward was written by William Kirby and it explained how the Rape of Nanking is viewed by Chinese and Japanese people. He also expressed how the Rape of Nanking is remembered by and how Iris Chang demonstrates it clearly. The introduction included information on how the author, Iris Chang, became interested in the events of Nanking and how it was difficult to find information about what happened there. The introduction said how many Americans don't know anything about the Rape of Nanking and how it is rarely mentioned in Holocaust books even though it was a very deadly event. The author seemed to be distressed by this. I agree with Chang on this because I think that Americans should try to learn about other cultures as well. She described when she first heard about it when she was a little girl and how it is an important part of her Chinese heritage. This section also included the first chapter, The Path to Nanking. The chapter showed most of the military-like events leading up to what happened at Nanking. There were quite a few, including clashes between China and other countries not including Japan. Even though this section was mostly about the background information, it still was very depressing at times. It occasionally told ways the Japanese had for killing people, which were very gruesome in themselves. For example, the Japanese would dig a hole and bury a Chinese man halfway underground. (They would be buried up to the hip.) Then, when the Chinese man was helpless and defenseless, they would release German shepherds to attack the men and kill them. This method was extremely surprising for me because I did not think that a human-being could be this cruel. This genocide and many others are so outrageous, it is amazing to think of how many people died.