Anja's Family Research Paper

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Stresses within a family When people think of a family having a lot of tension it is to be assumed that there has been a dispute between family members. It is usually originating from an internal source within the household, and far less likely to be caused by the world’s involvement. But when one of the women within Anja’s family had to make the call to kill the children and herself we watch what real stress within a family can do. This was an external pressure onto the family, as the threats from the German Nazis intensified, and she decided that it was far more merciful to the children to have them poisoned rather then sent to the gas chambers. The image of her feeding the poison to the children is what I chose to depict in my last drawing.

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