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.

Holocaust Survivor

Kristine Keren her original name is Krystyna Chiger. She was born in Poland on October 28, 1935. She lived with her mother, father, an younger brother. She was born in an apartment building were they lived when the war started. Her brother died in 1978 he was in the Israel army. He was born May 18, 1939. Her mother played the piano they owned a big beautiful piano. They heated the apartment with ceramic fireplaces by burning coal in it. When the weather was nice out she would go outside and play in the courtyard or go to the park. Her grandparents lived three streets away. Her father owned a fabric store. Her favorite color was yellow and her favorite toy was a doll. She remembers that her brother was born on a Sunday and when she seen her mother after he was born she ask her how her brother came her mother said that she left sugar outside the window the stork took the sugar and left her brother. She went to school after the liberation started kindergarten in 1941. In 1939 the Russians took her fathers store so he started working two jobs. The Russians stayed until 1941 then the Germans came. The Germans came in and took their home  and took all their belongings. They moved from place to place moving mostly at night. Her father witnessed her grandfather being killed. Her family and seven other Jews hid in the sewer. Took her father and two others to dig a tunnel to the sewer. Her father gave money to some sewer workers to help them. One of the tunnel workers Soha (not sure if it is spelled correctly) helped them make the tunnel more professional. She was wearing new sandals and wanted to wear them into the sewer and her mother told her no and she said "I want to wear these sandals mama". When they were going into the tunnel she asked her father " Daddy were are we going, were are we going". She explains the tunnels as being a smelly city underground. They lived in the sewers for fourteen months. Soha would bring them food and take their dirty clothes home and his wife would wash them. Soha was a Catholic man and when it was safe for the Jews to come out of the sewers he was waiting for them and he shouted "These are my Jews I saved them". She went to Israel in 1957. Went to Jerusalem to study for dental. She married her husband Marion in 1960. They moved to the United States in 1968. They had two sons. She believes that her experience surviving the holocaust was a positive influence on raising her own children. It strongly effect her everyday. Has dreams, wakes up in cold sweats, wont step on man holes walks around them, and watching movies about Germans with their foot steps gives her cold chills. She believes in taking the bad things in life and turning them into something positive. Her message for the future generation is " Not to forget what happened to the six million Jews during the holocaust.

MLA & Plagiarism

Four reasons why using MLA is important 1) allows readers to cross reference your sources easily. 2) Provides consistant format within a discipline. 3) Gives you credibility as a writer and 4) protects yourself from plagiarism.
What is the purpose of using a consistent format? Because using a consistent format helps your reader understand your arguments and the sources they are built on. It also helps you keep track of your sources as you build arguments.
Consequences of plagiarizing can result in anything from failure of the assignment to expulsion from school.
Where can you find the answers on how to properly cite in MLA format? Prentice Hall Reference Guide, composition textbooks, www.mla.org, and OWL website.
Two purposes of a work cited page are a complete list of every source that you make reference to in you essay and provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any sources cited in your essay.

Free Write- 3-6-13

Today is my son Rylans birthday he is eight years old today. Time sure flies it just seems like yesterday he was born. He is turning into a young man. My baby girl finally slept most of the night only woke up once and went right back to sleep after she got her bottle. Its hard to believe she is almost eight months old. She has her first tooth she is pulling herself up on everything that will hold still. I have to say my children still amaze me with everything that they do. My oldest one had to right a paper on a book that she finished reading and she does better then I do. My job is going good I am really enjoying it so far. My coworkers so far are easy to get a long with which makes it easier to like the job. The residents also make you feel welcome most of them are really friendly. Of  course there is always a couple that is grumpy. Everything is finally looking up for me and my famly.

Plagiarism

According to the Prentice Hall Reference Guide plagiarism is unethical because it is wrong to steal someone elses work. It also means a lost learning opportunity, demenishes your credibility, and may result in serios penalties (Prentice Hall Reference Guide pg. 378-379).

Free Write- 3/4/13

I started a new job this weekend I really like it so far. The only thing I don't like is the time spent away from family. But of course that is why I am working is for them. My baby girl has cut her first tooth she was a champ she wasn't fussy at all. That's not normal for a baby cutting teeth but hey if that's the way it works with her great it will make it a lot easier on me and everyone else. My sons birthday is coming up on Wednesday he will be eight years old it's hard to believe. They grow up so fast. I asked him what he wanted for his birthday and all he tells me he wants is a football. That is easy enough and probable the cheapest birthday ever. But whatever he wants it's his special day. I love my children. They drive me crazy but I love them all the same. It's funny because they think everything is unfair I always tell them life's not fair. You just deal with it and move on.

Eva Mozes Kor-3/1/13

Veronica Willbanks

Mr. Neuburger

Eng. 101-104

28 February 2013

Summary

Eva Mozes Kor

            Eva Mozes Kor was a survivor of Auschwitz and Dr. Josef Menegele. Menegele was cruel he used twins as guinea pigs. Kor was taken to Auschwitz in May 1944 along with her father, mother, two older sisters and her twin sister, Miriam. Eva and Miriam were taken from the rest of their family never to see them again. Menegele did experimental test on them. She has forgave all the Nazis so she can move on with her life and not live in pain everyday with everything she has endured through her life as a young girl.

            For the 50^th anniversary of the day she was liberated she had found and talked to a former Nazi doctor Munch and convinced him to go with her back to Auschwitz. She was in search of Mengele records so she could find out what he had injected into her sister because she was sick with her kidneys. Kor donated one of her kidneys to her sister. The records have never been found.

            The other surviving twins are not happy because Kor forgave the Nazis for what they have done. She says that it has freed her of her pain that she has lived with for so long. They don’t think she has the right to forgive for the ones that died, but I don’t feel that she was forgiving for anyone but herself.