It has been three years now since the Germans invaded Denmark, and right now it is currently 1943. The Danish people burned down their ships to stop the Germans to use their battleships, and protected their king. The german forces called the Nazi are quickly taking away the Jews. The Jews are in a very hard situation. Some are in hiding in vain, and some are trying to escape to a safe country such as: Sweden, Poland, the United states, and Switzerland, but most are already have been taken away by the nazis to the concentration camp. Even when it seems futile there are some spies trying to resist the Germans and take the Jews to safety. One of those Jews that are trying to take off is a girl named Ellen. She has been going through a very hard time. Ellen was left alone from her parents and was told that they would come back when it was safe. While she was alone she knew that she would be taken away if she did not do anything. Ellen got lucky, and she was able to stay with her best friend's parents fathers brother-in-law named Henrik. After a few days at Henrik’s place, one night there is a funeral, and Ellen reunites during that funeral, with her parents, which was disturbed by the Nazi soldiers. Annemarie, her best friend, and her relatives along with Ellen’s family and relatives managed to trick the Nazi from opening the coffin. This happened because what was inside of the coffin could cost their life if caught by the Germans. With the help of Annemarie's mother, Ellen and her family were to be taken to the docks to be potentially shipped away to safety. As one family geso one by one to leave it became Ellens turn to go and leave the household. Annemarie as sad as she is about letting her best friend go she gives up and allows ... ... middle of paper ... ...d as family if you told no one they were not related. Annemarie is very brave to actually rebel against the Nazi just because of of one soul and this is very inspiring to me. What is makes me afraid of their journey is the consequences that they are facing. Many things could happen if they get caught. Most likely Annemarie is going to be shot right at that spot, and Ellen to be taken away. Other things could also happen such as torcher of Ellen will not be spared for the concentration camp. When give thought on this on what they are really giving up to help one another is the real definition of humanity. During time of war could really bring out the best out of people. I personally think that humans all around the world should take this friendship as an example and change their ways and stop the war. This really shows that all humans have a chance to push forward.
Elli talks about daily life in her neighborhood. Her mother does not show any compassion for her. When Elli complains of this, her mother brings up excuses that are unconvincing. Elli believes her mother does not care for her and that her brother is the favorite. Hilter’s reoccurring radio broadcast give nightmares to Elli, whos family is Jewish. The nights when the Hungarian military police would come and stir trouble did not provide anymore comfort for Elli. One night, her brother, Bubi, comes home with news that Germany invaded Budapest, the town where he goes to school. But the next morning, there is no news in the headlines. The father sends him back to school. He learns the next day that a neighbor’s son who goes to school with Bubi has said the same. The day after, the newspapers scream the news of the invasion. Bubi arrives home, and the terror begins.
On their way to the village they are stopped by Nazi soldiers who says they must come with them to be relocated. Hannah is the only one who knows what is actually about to happen. She tries to explain why they must not go with the soldiers but the adults explain that they have no choice. They are loaded in trucks and drove off to a train station where they are gathered into cars with barely any room to breathe. The ride on the train lasts for days and several children and infants do not live
With the amount of anti-Semitic activity in Germany, no Jew was safe and Helen realized this quickly. In order to protect her child he had to give her to family to keep her safe. “There we said goodbye as casually as possible and gave these strangers our child.” After this moment, Helen’s fight for survival to see her child once again. Finding a place to hide became very difficult as no one wanted to host a Jewish family due to the fear of the Nazis finding out. “People were understandably nervous and frightened, so the only solution was to find another hiding place.”
A friend doesn’t have to be a human, a friend can be anyone who cares. This story also taught
Lori was the first one to leave for New York City after graduation, later, Jeanette followed her and moved into her habitat with her. Jeanette promptly found a job as a reporter, the two sisters were both living their dream life away from their miserable parents. It wasn’t difficult for them since they cultured to be independent and tough. Everything was turning out great for them and decided to tell their younger siblings to move in with them, and they did. Jeanette was finally happy for once, enjoying the freedom she had and not having to be moved every two weeks. She then found a guy whom she married and accustomed her lifestyle. Furthermore, her parents still couldn’t have the funds for a household or to stay in stable occupation, so they decided to move in with Jeanette and her siblings. Jeanette at that moment felt like she was never going to have an ordinary life because her parents were going to shadow her.
Eva and Miriam were with their mother until a man asked if they were twins. Their mother said yes after asking if that was a good thing and then they were taken away never to see her again. Once taken away, they were brought to a barrack for twins, where they were kept until liberated. In school, Eva encountered a hard time because she was Jewish and the other children knew they could get away with blaming things on her.
Ellen just felt a distant sadness. Ellen cried just a little bit. Her grandmother was furious because Ellen showed some emotions. She told her to never cry again. After that Ellen becomes scarred for a long time.
How would you react if you were taken from your friends and family? Both Elie and Anne had to experience their family being taken away from them, possibly forever. Even though their most loved ones were taken, they still stayed strong. Elie and Anne had similar situations at the concentration camps when they went there.
In the essay, the author points out that most of the other Jewish families who did decide to go into hiding did so separately, so if one family member were to get caught, the others still might have a chance. As Bettelheim points out that the chief desire of the Franks was to continue to live together as if they were free, in the same manner that they had been living in. At the time when I was reading The Diary of Anne Frank, I had never thought that there was any other way that they could have lived. I never once considered that they should split up.
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
Even with this minor breakthrough for her character development, Ellen is mostly concerned with there being a crowd to witness the embarrassment of her mother and is again self-absorbed. She does however work together with her siblings to make a decision to burn down the house, rather than have their mother be made a public spectacle. She assists them in removing all the furniture from the house before setting it on fire. In this act, Ellen finally seems to see her family as a unit which may be due to “formal operational reasoning which allows for reflection about social relationships” (Newman & Newman, 2012, p.356). As Ellen transitions into late adolescence, she will hopefully continue to develop positively and this begins with establishing a strong individual identity.
Mrs.Johansen is Annemarie’s mother, she is a very strong, determined, and smart woman “Friends will take care of them. thats what friends do. ”she helps the roses by hiding ellen and pretending that she is their daughter. Mr. Johansen is Annemarie’s father, he is the same as her mother but more courageous and brave. ” we don’t know where the germans are taking the jews and we dont know what that means we only know that its is wrong, and it dangerous and we must help”.
I agree with Anne because a lot of people hid Jews during the holocaust. Miep and Mr. Kraler help the Frank, Van Daan, and Miep’s dentist, Mr.Dussel during the Holocaust. They hid them even though she knew it was against the law. They both kept everyone a secret, and they also got them food every day and snuck upstairs to the attic before the workers came. “Mr. Kraler: I must go before the workmen get here. Miep or I will bring you food and the news and find out what your needs are.” (Goodrich and Hackett 515).Miep’s first grocer hid a Jew too. The Nazi somehow found out and he was taken to a concentration camp. Another story would be about Schindler. Schindler owned a factory, and early one all he cared about was money. Then he saw all the Jews in the Ghetto get taken by the Nazi’s. He felt really bad and started to take care of his Jewish workers even better. Once all of his workers were sent to concentration camps, he went to the concentration camps and demanded his to get his workers back. He got his workers back and sort of hide them will making them do “work”. He is credited of saving more than one thousand people during his lif...
When the infamous Hitler began his reign in Germany in 1933, 530,000 Jews were settled in his land. In a matter of years the amount of Jews greatly decreased. After World War II, only 15,000 Jews remained. This small population of Jews was a result of inhumane killings and also the fleeing of Jews to surrounding nations for refuge. After the war, emaciated concentration camp inmates and slave laborers turned up in their previous homes.1 Those who had survived had escaped death from epidemics, starvation, sadistic camp guards, and mass murder plants. Others withstood racial persecution while hiding underground or living illegally under assumed identities and were now free to come forth. Among all the survivors, most wished not to return to Germany because the memories were too strong. Also, some become loyal to the new country they had entered. Others feared the Nazis would rise again to power, or that they would not be treated as an equal in their own land. There were a few, though, who felt a duty to return to their home land, Germany, to find closure and to face the reality of the recent years. 2 They felt they could not run anymore. Those survivors wanted to rejoin their national community, and show others who had persecuted them that they could succeed.
On the afternoon of September 29, 1943, Herbert Pundik’s childhood ended. On that day, his school’s headmaster dismissed teenage Pundik and his fellow Jewish classmates after he learned about the upcoming deportation of Danish Jews. He rushed home and when he arrived, he found his parents and siblings already packed to leave; his father had learned of the news earlier in the day from a friend who attended morning service at the synagogue and heard the rabbi’s warning of impending danger. The warning, although appreciated, sent Copenhagen’s Jewish population into a panic. According to an excerpt from a young Danish girl’s unpublished diary: “But today it is different. Today you are a refugee. The quiet days, they finished yesterday. When