My box thingy I made on Feb. 28, 2008

My cool Heart flower/cat box!!!!

Wow

Wow. This is so boring. I got to do this work cited thing and it is so boring. I can't wait until I'm done with the last phase in writing! Awsome! Oh well! This totally freaks me out! I mean, right on!

The Most difficult paper I have written ever!

Research Paper On Jewish People
Kayleen Oscar

“It was late at night that we arrived at Auschwitz. When we came in, the minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs, blows from...from those Kapos, those officials working for them, over the head. And then we got out of the train. And everything went so fast: left, right, right, left. Men separated from women. Children were torn from the arms of mothers. The elderly chased like cattle. The sick, the disabled were handled like packs of garbage. They were thrown in a side together with broken suitcases, with boxes. My mother ran over to me and grabbed me by the shoulders, and she told me ‘Leibele, I'm not going to see you no more. Take care of your brother.’"

Personal Statement- Leo Schneiderman


There were thirteen concentration camps around Nazi Germany: Vught, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Bergen Belson, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Dachau, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Gross Rosen, Theresienstadt, Mauthausen, and Statthof. In Poland there were six death camps: Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec, and Leo Schneiderman was in Auschwitz. Birkenau. Half of the Jewish population was exterminated in these camps
Jews have been discriminated for thousands of years because of their religious beliefs. The Nazis had starved, abused, shot, gassed, and burned them. They would give them a small amount of food. If they were sick or disabled they would handle them as Leo Schneiderman said, “like packs of garbage.”
Was Hitler at the war with the Jews just because Jewish people wrote the Bible? Was it because the Jews crucified Jesus Christ? Is it because the Jews are said to be God’s chosen people? For a long time many people disliked the Jews and were at war with them.
There was a Greek person named Apion. As he was growing older his hatred for Jewish people grew. It was said that the Jews would take a Greek Foreigner and fatten him or her up until it was time to sacrifice a Greek. In Greek times they were forced to disguise their synagogues as colleges and pay taxes to warship (PBS SITE)
Jews have been at war with Hitler and other people from different religions because these people didn’t like them. There is no clear explanation why Hitler was at war with Jews. At first Hitler started gassing retarded Germans. Then he started gassing the Jews. Basically like the retarded Germans Hitler thought Jews deserved to die because they were less than human.
The Germans discriminated against the Jews by using weapons of brutality like starvation, cruelty, terror, and dehumanization. They easily pushed Jews into the gas chambers. Most victims were taken in groups to secluded areas where they were stripped of clothing, pushed into open pits, machine-gunned, and then quickly covered over, in many cases even before all were dead. 98% of the Jewish population of Poland was executed. Despite their military might and organizational skills, the Germans needed help from local population. They were killing off millions of Jews without resistance or disturbance. Germans required help in identifying, isolating and demoralizing the Jews. All together half of the Jewish population were killed in this way.
Israel and Palestine are fighting over a piece of land that is called the Gaza Strip. For many years they have been told to move here and there. The Jews have no homeland to settle in because of all the discrimination they have faced. This is a struggle that still happens today.
Recently there has been another person that has continued the discrimination of the Jewish people. This person’s name is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is the president of Iran. He said that the Holocaust didn’t happen and that the Jews had made it all up. The Holocaust was just a myth to him. He said that Israel should be wiped off the map or be moved somewhere else. Ahmadinejad thinks that the Jews just wanted to be felt sorry for. He also thinks that the Jewish people put the “myth” above God, religions, and prophets.
The web page www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/ tells us testimonies that say that the Holocaust happened. In that website there are a lot of people that had said what had happened to them when they were at concentration camp. Those are true stories that they told. Some of them tell stories of other people but most of the stories are about the person who told it. There are also pictures in www.ushmm.org. There are pictures of SS officers. There is a timeline from 1933 to 1961 explaining what had happened while Hitler was ruling Nazi Germany in the web page. In the next paragraph I will be naming some Jewish stereotypes.
The following are some well-known stereotypes. Jewish people are rich. Jews have good paying jobs. Jews are smart. Jews control everything. Jews know how to make money. Jews have hooked noses. Jewish mothers want their sons to become a doctor or a lawyer when they grow up. Jewish mothers interrupt people. Jewish mothers want to be the center of the conversation. Jewish women are skilled in the kitchen. Jews are not as honest as other businessmen. Jews have too much power in the business world. Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind. Jews always like to be at the head of things. No matter how sad a story you tell a Jew, he can top it. Jewish mothers talk a lot.
There are a lot of Jewish jokes that make fun if them. There are inappropriate ways of using the word Jew like Jewtastic, dirty Jew, Jewlarious, Jewed down, you are such a Jew, hooked-nosed Jew, kike. These are some Jewish slang words.
Does anyone die from the use of these words? No, there are some ways to discriminate Jews like using words, drawings, and of course physically discriminating them.
There were other discriminations that happened all over the world. Slavery was one of them. Africans were sold or stolen from Africa then sold them in America. Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are neglected. Jews were ripped from their homes and were forced to go into ghettos then into concentration camps.
Like the African-Americans the Native Americans had no rights. When the African-Americans got some rights the Native Americans weren’t given any. Their land was stolen, forced to move place to place, and was tricked by the Englishmen. The Jews have been moved around a lot. They don’t have a homeland. Their land was taken away from them. When the Jews were in the concentration camps the Nazis said that the Jews were to take a show, but instead the Jewish people were gassed.
The genocide in Africa was took place after the death of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport in 1994. That was the only cause that started the genocide. In half a year Hutus killed 800,000 Tutsis. There were 5.7 million Jews killed during the Holocaust.
There were different kinds of discrimination all over the world. The Holocaust wasn’t the only discrimination that happened, there was slavery, the genocide in Africa, Native Americans not having their rights, and the African American’s having little amount of rights. Most of these discriminations I didn’t know existed. There’s probably more discriminations I don’t know of but those who don’t recognize the past are doomed to repeat it.

Speech

Informative Essay/ Speech Expository

Nunivak Island is one of the largest islands in the Bering Sea. It is covered in permafrost. It is a volcanic island lying about 30 miles offshore from the mainland. What I’m about to inform you is what was lost in the Cup’ig culture in the late 19th and the early 20th Century, when the first U.S. Census for Nunivak Island was taken by an American Ivan Petroff, the missionaries that came to Nunivak, and reviving the traditional dancing.

Nunivak’s first U.S. Census was in the year of 1891 by Ivan Petroff. He was dropped off at the southeastern coast of Cape Mendenhall. He was on the island for about sixteen days. He reported that he went all the way around the island and that there were fifteen settlements with a population of 745 people on the island. He was picked up just off shore of Mekoryuk. If he had traveled around the island he would have to have gone around one and a half times. Some researchers questioned the number. He was using a kayak to go around the island. People thought that he lied because it couldn’t have taken him sixteen days to go around the island. The researchers think that he only went on one side of the island and counted up 745 people. They think that there were more people than that because he didn’t navigate the whole island.
In the 40 years after Petroff visited 73% of the people died from diseases that were introduced to the islanders: measles, tuberculosis, and influenza. The diseases would go away and come back and more people would die. The diseases were brought and introduced to the Cup’ig Eskimo by Ivan Petroff and others like shipwrecked people or people that came here for protection. The elders and children were dying. The elders were the teachers and the supervisors in the Cup’ig culture. When they die some of our culture dies too. The Russians and Americans that came to Nunivak Island, like Ivan Petroff, had side effects on the Cup’ig people. The side effects were sicknesses that were deadly to the Native people of Nunivak Island.

Who came to Nunivak Island and told the Cup’ig people to stop practicing some of their culture? The missionaries came and settled on the island. In the 1930’s the missionaries weren’t white people they were Inupiaq Eskimos. The main missionary was Jacob Kenick from Shaktoolik. The missionaries had said that our traditional dancing was evil and that we need to stop practicing it. They also said that the Cup’ig people had to get their drums and hunting tools and throw them into the bay because it wasted their time from learning about God. Ever since that happened, there was no more traditional dancing and hunting with spears, harpoons, bows and arrows. They used guns instead.

60 years later we have revived the dancing, even though the elders and some adults were against it. The only people that weren’t against it were young people. The people that wanted the cultural dancing to be revived over ruled the adults that were against it. Howard Amos had video taped fifteen songs with three of them with motions that Kay Hendrickson sang and performed for him. There weren’t any cultural dancing for over sixty years. It was exciting to see that there was cultural dancing again. It was like finding some pieces that were missing in the culture, but there are more things that need to be found to repair the Cup’ig culture.


All this happened to the Cup’ig people. If there weren’t so many people that introduced sicknesses there would be more of us, the Cup’igs. There was a lot of grief and depression going on that time. Then the missionaries came and made it worse. They took away things the Cup’igs loved to do. Now that the Cup’ig’s traditional dancing is revived the children can learn what our ancestors loved to do. But our language is dying off and so are our elders. When our elders die some of our culture dies with them.

Persuasive Essay

The president of Iraq, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that the Holocaust didn’t happen, he’s wrong. There’s a lot of proof that said that it had happened. He declared that the Jews just wanted to be felt sorry for and with the purpose of what they said about the Holocaust was just a myth. In this essay I will tell you facts that said the Holocaust had happened.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to wipe Israel off the map and move it somewhere else because there was no reason for it to exist. Ahmadinejad suggested that it to be moved to Europe, United States, Alaska, or Canada. The United States, Israel, and European Commission had condemned his suggestion. Ahmadinejad had doubted that the killing of Jews were by Nazis during World War II. He requested Europe, U.S., Alaska, and Canada to give a piece of land to Israel.
Well, how does he know that it’s a myth or not? Why does Ahmadinejad deny what had happened to the Jews in World War Two? He says that the Jews made a myth that they were massacred and placed that above God, religions and prophets. I am saying that the Holocaust happened. In the books Parallel Journeys, The Dairy of Anne Frank, Stay Alive, The Hiding place, The Power of One, Night, and many more books tells us that the Holocaust happened. In the book Parallel Journey there is a Jewish woman and a German man Alfons Heck, a German, used to be an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. Helen Waterford was Jewish woman who was one of the many Jews that were part of the Holocaust. Both of them confessed what happened in World War Two and what happened after the discrimination happened. If he doesn’t believe this he could just go ask Alfons Heck, the man who was a part of the Hitler Youth when he was just a boy.
The web page www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/ tells us testimonies that say that the Holocaust happened. In that website there are a lot of people that had said what had happened to them when they were at concentration camp. Those are true stories that they told. Some of them tell stories of other people but most of the stories are about the person who told it. There are also pictures in www.ushmm.org. There are pictures of SS officers.
There is a timeline from 1933 to 1961 explaining what had happened while Hitler was ruling Nazi Germany in the web page http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html. There’s a lot of websites and books that prove that the Holocaust happened. Such things can happen even if it is unbelievable. He may think that the Holocaust is a myth, but there’s a lot of proof that say that it had happened.

My News Article

Nazi Saves Jews

During a raid on the Krakow Ghetto in 1942 a member of the Nazi Party watched from an overlooking hill. Oskar Schindler was shocked by the murder of many Jews who were working for him in his enamelware factory. Oskar was a very persuasive man. After the raid he used all of his skills to try and protect his “Schindler Jews”. He bought more factories in order to save more Jews. Even through he was a Nazi himself he started saving Jews because other Nazis had killed his Jewish workers.
In Zwittau, Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908. Hans Schindler and his wife Franziska Luser were Schindler's parents, but they divorced. Oskar became a Sudeten German factory owner who is recognized for saving 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He had Jews working in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in Poland. He called the Jews that he saved his children. He died on October 9, 1974, and was buried in Jerusalem.
Close friends of Oskar Schindler were entrusted with a suitcase after his death in 1974. The couples’ children rediscovered the suitcase when they were clearing their parents’ loft and found an original list in 1999. Schindler’s original list consisted of 1,200 Jewish names that he had saved from dying in the extermination camps.
The Jews that he saved worked in his enamelware and ammunitions factories all over Poland and some in the Czech Republic. He got more factories that belonged to Jewish owners under Nazi Germany's Aryanization policies. The Nazis thought that Oskar was letting the Jews work without pay. The more factories he received the more Jews he got to save.
He bribed, lied, and gave money to the Nazis to give him more Jews and to protect himself. He used bribery, lying, and his own money to save the 1,200 Jews. He did all these bad things in order to save Jews. The Nazis didn’t suspect him because he cheated on his wife, gambled, bribed, and was a drunk. He was sent to prison because he was suspected of running black market activities and was involved in stealing and cheating. After that he used his “skills” to protect himself from being suspected and to save more Jews.

Memory For Life

In 1939, the morning was beautiful in Warsaw. “Jadyn, it’s time for breakfast,” Mother said exhaustedly. We were having the usual Monday morning breakfast; eggs, pancakes, bacon, orange juice, and oatmeal.
“So,” Father said, “What are your plans today? I am going to do inventory in the store today, who would like to help me?”
“Abe?” Mother asked Father.
“Yes dear,” Father replied affectionately.
“Would you be able to take me to Mrs. Franks house? We’re doing the Quilting Club there today,” she interrogated pleadingly.
“Yes, I would,” answered Father politely.
Immediately Lizbeth stated to our parents, “ Jadyn and I are going to Tzipora’s after school to play dolls and have tea with her. Every Monday we have the usual tea party.” Lizbeth was my twin sister.
“What about you Betsy? What are you going to do today?” questioned Mother.
Betsy lazily retorted, “ Annie and I have to work on our Science project. So, I will be at her house today.”
“ I’m not burdened with anything today, Father, I could help you,” Aaron verbalized courteously.
“ Me too,” uttered Seth, Hans, Margot, Eli, and Emmanuel.
I had eight siblings; Aaron, 16, Betsy, 15, Seth, 14, Lizbeth, 12, Hans, 9, Margot, 7, Eli, 5, and Emmanuel, 3. There were some nights that we played hide-and-seek and tag in our house. Sometime we would do some plays that we made up for our parents. After the plays we would get treats.
Lizbeth and I went to pick up our friends and went off to school. We were planning what we were going to do at Tzipora’s house: first, homework, second, tea, and third, anything we would think of. It was time to go to class. Our homeroom teacher was Mrs. Frank. She was the nicest teacher that anyone could have.
Right after school Lizbeth, our friends, and I went to Tzipora’s. We did our homework and had tea. After we put our dishes in the sink we went to Tzipora’s room to play with her dolls. Lizbeth and I had to go home; our mother had called. Lizbeth and I helped put the dolls away.

I remember in May of 1940, there was a knock on the door. Our neighbors had told us that we needed to get ready for a journey. We brought our bags to Eliezer Shaan’s yard. He was one of our neighbors. There were a lot of Jewish people there with their luggage. There was a rumor that we were going to be picked up and brought to a camp. Eliezer said that the rumor was true.
In a few hours there were a lot of trucks parking in our neighborhood. There was a choice you had to make; you either went to the camp or be shot and cremated. I was scared. I wanted to cry but the tears wouldn’t come out. Everyone picked to go to camp. We boarded the trucks. There were eighty people in each truck. There was no room for all the people to sit down so we took turns. It was so hot in the truck. The truck began to stink. My family and I were by a window. We were glad we were by a window. I felt the soothing air on my face. I heard a child cry. There was a little boy that asked his mother for water, but there was no water. We were thirsty and hungry. My stomach hurt from hunger.

The doors slid open. We were ordered to get out. There was silence. Then we had to form a line in rows of five. There were one hundred people in a row. Our parents told us to stick together.
The Kapo announced, “You are in a concentration camp! The Gross Rosen concentration camp! Do you know why you came? Do you see the chimney over there? Do you see the flames?” (Of course we see the flames.) “ That’s where they will take you, that’s where your grave will be. You will be burned to cinder! You will be in ashes! We will give no mercy to all!”
I heard people whisper behind me:
“ We had fallen into a trap, what should we do now? We must do something. We can’t let them do this to us. We can’t let them slaughter us like cattle in the slaughterhouse.”
“ Mother, what is going to happen to us?” Seth asked.
“ I don’t know, my dear. It looks like this will be where we will be staying.”
My twin sister, Lizbeth, and my older sister, Margot were holding my hands. My family and I were all holding each other’s hands. I was scared. I didn’t know what to do. The Kapos told us to follow them. Then they ordered us to run. We ran until we were ordered to stop.


Margot, Eli, and Emmanuel had died. They were too weak to do anything. We just woke up and found them dead in bed. Mother and Father had to carry them to the cremation building. We said Kaddish for them. Then Hans had died. While he was working, one of the Kapos got mad and randomly picked someone to beat. He picked up my brother and started throwing him around. I told the Kapo to stop. He came to me and told me that I either shut up or get burned to death. I had gotten quiet and started working. My brother was beaten so badly he died. He lost too much blood. I had to watch my brother burn in the cremation building. I was crying but the tears didn’t come out.
There are kind soldiers that bring us more soup if we’re too skinny. We thanked them. When I get a second bowl of soup I’d give the other half either to Lizbeth or Seth. If they had a second bowl I would give my other portion to my parents.

There was selection today. All of us were terrified. We were told to run to show them we were still strong enough to live. I heard people praying all around me. I prayed and asked God for strength. When the Kapos came in we became quiet.
An hour passed. The selection was finished. We didn’t know who was written down on the paper. We would find out who was written down to tomorrow morning. We were scared because we didn’t know if they wrote our names down. While I was working the thought of the selection came to me. I got worried, but I told myself that tomorrow they would announce who will stay behind.
The next morning we were told to line up. The Kapos came in and announced numbers. I wasn’t picked. My family wasn’t picked. There was one number I new. The number was my friend’s number, 29476. Her name was Mary. She was about 40 years old. She was a kind and caring lady. She worked by me and kept me company. All of us were assigned a place to work and a place to sit.

In 1942 the SS soldiers were driven out of the camp. We were free at last. When I was out of the gates I asked one of the soldiers that had driven out the SS soldiers if he had food to spare and he said yes. He gave me food. I ate all of it. Then a few minutes my stomach started hurting. The food was too rich for me. I had to eat food that was not too rich for a while.
There are days that I weep for my loved ones that I lost. The only people in my family that survived were my dad, mother, twin sister, Seth, Aaron, and Betsy. We would pray for our loved ones that we had lost in the camp. We had wished that they had a proper burial. All of us also prayed for all the Jews that were lost in all the camps. Almost every day we would have dreams we were in the camps. We were used to the nightmares because we knew how it felt to be beaten, hungry, tired and weak. This is the memory I would not forget through out my life, but I am glad that this would not happen again. My family and I are safe now. We will no longer feel the pain of being beaten, hungry, cold, and weak. I guess this was a test that God put the Jews though.