Research Paper - 5/10/13

Research Paper

Enchiladas- 5-6-13

movie 4-17-13

Free Write - 4/3/

Everything is going good right now I don't have much to write about. My baby girl is almost 9 months old. It's hard to believe she is growing up so fast. My oldest is almost thirteen now she makes me feel old. But I still love her she is such a big help with everything since i have been working nights. My son fell on Monday and hurt his knee and this morning he told me it was feeling better and then when I drop him off at his grandmas she asked how it was and he started saying it hurt and limping. That's him for you trying to get sympathy from anyone that will give it.

Free Write - 4-1-13

I had a wonderful Easter got to spend it with family and friends. I am thankful that my baby is doing better after she fell and hit her head Thursday night. Put a nice sized goose egg on her head. Its gone but she still has a bruise. I enjoy spending time with family we get to catch up and laugh and joke.
I have been reading the book Night in my free time and it is really good I am finding it a very emotional book to read. But i am enjoying it.

The Film Unfinished

The film unfinished was a propaganda film recorded by the Nazis to make it seem like the Jewish communities were living a normal life but in reality that was not the case. The Jews were being made to act like everything was normal. I just can't figure out how people can be so cruel. They were throwing bodies into huge graves and burring them. They had no respect for them it was disgusting. The corpses lay on the sidewalk and the other Jews had to walk by them. When they picked up the corpses they did not do so with care they showed them falling off the cart that they put them on. They also just through the bodies around. It was very heat wrenching for me to watch. The ladies watching I felt it was really hard to see them watching the film and how emotional it was for them. To make people strip down and bath in front of a camera is just disrespectful. The Nazis would make them heard together so to speak like they were running from something just to film it. They tried to make the ghettos look better than they really were. It was heart breaking to watch how malnourished the Jews were and how they were treated. To me they were treated like animals. No one deserves to be treated that way just because of their religion. My question would be were the cameramen Jews to or were they Nazis? That’s the one thing I wasn’t sure about. Because the one they were interviewing in the film to me acted more like a Jew then a Nazi either that or he just felt really bad about what he had done to them. I am glad that the film was found because of the people that say the holocaust never happened there is proof. I am also glad that there are survivors to tell their story to let the world know about all the terrible stuff the Nazis did to the Jews. I am sorry for all their pain and suffering that they had to endure.

Henry Laurant

Henry Warner Laurant original name Hans Werner Levy was born May 28, 1924 in Koenigsberg, Germany to his father Walter Levy and mother Sara Berherndt Levy. He had one sister. He lived on Munz street which means coin that over looked Palace Lake. During the winter they would ice skate and during the warm months they would do boating. His father was a Pediatrician and did his practice out of the apartment. Their second home was on Weissgerber. He inherited he love of books from his father. His mother was artistic she loved to do sculptures. They left Koenigsberg when he was twelve years old and moved to Berlin. He was insulted in school for being Jewish it got worse as he got older and went through school. He would get into fights at school because of being a Jew. He joined an organization to help him get through the difficult time at school. Jewish connection came about negatively due to the exposure in school. Father served in the German army in WWI. No Jews were allowed to practice as doctors or lawyers. Left in 1936 due to the treatment of the children and father started up a practice in Berlin. Dr. Leanora Goldwitz (spelling) opened a school for the Jewish children in Berlin. Hitler didn't really bother Berlin until the Olympics was over. They went and hid at a friends house right before Krystallnacht happened on November 10, 1938. He said the Nazis would march through the streets saying " When Jewish blood comes splashing from the knife everything went twice as well". He went to England December 10, 1938 it was only suppose to be temporary. He said it was "going from a bloody dictatorship to a free country". When him and his father were saying their farewells his father said "we are both mean aren't we". He stayed in a camp in England from December 1938 to March 1939. He then went to live in Bradford with Rabbi Auroburch he lived with him from March 1939 to May 1942. He communicated with his family through letters through the Red Cross until the war started. Sister was deported to a concentration camp in 1943. His parents were caught trying to escape from Germany and was taken to Aushwitz. He couldn't get into army so he was called up for war work until 1945. He then went to work for the US Armed Forces until 1946 then he went to a University in London and got a degree in Economics in 1949. He meet his first wife in Paris and had one son named Alexander. He got married to his second wife had another son named Nicholas. He worked for the World Bank. He got married for the third time in 1990 to Dr. Lesley Ford who kept her name. He said he did not feel any survivor guilt until he realizes he survived and his family did not. Affected his adult life that he sees a psychiatrist. He says that "Price to pay for one's freedom and survivor ship". His message to the next generation was NEVER AGAIN.