Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Reflection Post Questions

  1. What did you learn?
  • I learned that there are variety cases of surviving stories of the Jews. Also I learned how to research to get my answer and how to put them toghether.

2. What was your research question?

  • My research question was 'How did Jews survived the holocaust?'

3. What was the answer to your research question?

  • The answer was some hid themselves, survived the ghetto, or pretend themselves as some other races.

4. Did your final product answer that question?

  • My final product answered the question.

5. How?

  • I made a scrapbook with some explanations. I put some people in the scrapbook I researched and explained ho they survived.

6. What did you do well on the project?

  • I had everything that was required. Also I made the scrapbook just like I planned with the answers for my question.

7. What could you have improved on the project?

  • I could improved if I had more pictures with real album so it looks like more scrapbook.

8. What would you change about what you did on the project?

  • If I could change, I would finish reasearching and plan my final product early so I could spend more time on making the final product.

9. What would you change about the assignment itself?

  • I would like to make a movie with my topic.

10. What grade do you think you deserve on the project? Why?

  • I think I deserve an A because I did my best to finish this project. I stayed after school to finish it. Also I think I made a fine scrapbook because it has a lot of pictures. Most importantly, my scrapbook answered my research question.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Daily Progress Post 15

  • To finish the plan for the scrapbook
  • finished the plan for the scrapbook
  • It will help me alot to put everything together
  • finish the project

scrapbook 6

pages 11&12

Elie Wiesel:
stories...
Elie Wiesel was born in the small town of Sighet in Transylvania.The secure world of Wiesel's childhood ended abruptly with the arrival of the Nazis in Sighet in 1944. The Jewish inhabitants of the village were deported en masse to concentration camps in Poland. The 15 year-old boy was separated from his mother and sister immediately on arrival in Auschwitz. He never saw them again. He managed to remain with his father for the next year as they were worked almost to death, starved, beaten, and shuttled from camp to camp on foot, or in open cattle cars, in driving snow, without food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion and exposure.

pictures...

scrapbook 5

pages 9&10

Alicia Appleman-Jurman

things to say...
When the Holocaust began, Alicia Jurman was a young Jewish girl growing up in the southeastern Polish city of Buczacz. She first lost her brother and her father. Later in the ghetto, she lost her other brother. After that she survived many entrance to the death and finlly hid in a farm with her mom until the war was over. Alicia is that person. Alicia, who is among the women heroes of the Holocaust.

pictures:

Martin Weiss

things to say...

Weiss was one of nine children born to orthodox Jewish parents in Polana, a rural village in the Carpathian Mountains. His father owned a farm and a meat business, and his mother attended to the children and the home. Everyone in the family helped take care of the horses and cows. After he went to the ghetto, Weiss was liberated at the Gunskirchen camp by U.S. troops in May 1945. He was 16 years old. Weiss returned to Czechoslovakia, where he found some surviving family members. In 1946 they immigrated to the United States.

pictures:

scrapbook 4

pages 7&8
Louis Begley and Benjamin Jacobs
things to say...

Begley was born Ludwik Begleiter in Stryi at the time part of Poland and now in Ukraine, as the only child of a physician. He is a survivor of the Holocaust due to the multiple purchases of Aryan papers by his mother and constant evasion of the Nazis. They survived by pretending to be Polish Catholic. The family left Poland in the fall of 1946 and settled in New York in March 1947.
He studied English Liturature in Harvard College and graduated Harvard Law School.

http://sthweb.bu.edu/shaw/anna-howard-shaw-center/biography?view=mediawiki&article=Louis_Begley

pictures:

Benjamin Jacobs..........

things to say...

Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs), a Jewish dental student who in 1941 was deported from his Polish Village to a Nazi labor camp and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the last days of the war.

Jacobs is convinced that he owes his survival through four years of atrocities and near-starvation to his possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills. The Nazis commandeered his services, first to work on the teeth of inmates and later on those of SS officers. At Auschwitz he was even forced to work on corpses, cracking their jaws to remove gold teeth and fillings.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Dentist-of-Auschwitz/Benjamin-Jacobs/e/9780813190129

pcitures:

scrapbook 3

pages 5&6:

pictures of Alex Kruzem

picture of Alex Kurzem's son(the author of the book)

things to say...

As a five-year-old boy Alex Kurzem had witnessed the massacre of his fellow Jewish villagers, among them his mother, baby brother and sister. Kurzem escaped into nearby woods where he survived by scavenging and stealing clothes from dead bodies, until he was found and handed over to Latvian police, who “adopted” him as a mascot.

http://www.c4israel.org/c4i/newspaper/february_2008/the_nazi_mascot_almost_all_his_life_alex_kurzem_ha

Alex asked a favor to his son to find who he is because he is Jewish.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/books/30book.html?_r=1

Daily Progress Post 14

  • to plan next pages
  • I made the plan for 2nd and 3rd pages
  • More pages of the scrapbook
  • to finish the plan and make the scrapbook