Blogging the Holocaust and Human Rights

1/19/2010

Welcome to our blog on the Holocaust and Human Rights. Throughout our study of this topic you will be responding to blog posts written by me as well as your classmates.

These posts may be in journal form or a response to another person. Address that person by name so that they and others can also respond.

Topics may include classroom discussion, a passage from your own reading, responses to a current event that is related to our topic, or a question that you have on the topic.

78 Comments

Kristi

1/19/2010

Share your background knowledge of the Holocaust. What was the Holocaust. When did it occur? Who was involved and why? Have you read any books or seen any movies on this topic. If so, briefly tell us about it. Do you have any specific questions you would like answered or topics you would like to explore?

Kristen

1/28/2010

I know a little bit about the Holocaust. Many people were killed and tortured. I don't think that I have seen any movies or read any books about it. I learned a few things throughout my school years, but I want to learn more.

Natashia Fraser-Wordell

1/28/2010

Holocaust is when Hitler, who was a German, went around and killed all the Jews because he thought they were a disgrace to the world. i haven't read any books about it. I've only seen the movies that we see at school.

Cote

1/28/2010

I do not know much about the holocaust but what I do know is that it was very life changing. Also Hitler killed a lot of Jews. A lot of the Jews were tortured and kept in concentration camps. It was a tragedy and many innocent people were killed. Hitler was also part Jew but killed many Jews when he turned to the German side.

Dexter

1/28/2010

My Knowledge about the holocaust is very little. I know that Hitler tryed to kill all of the jewish people. They were put in camps so they could be killed. I think this is a very interesting thing to talk about. Sometimes when I'm board I go watch things about the holocaust on the history channel. I've seen two movies about it too.

Lilly

1/28/2010

I don't know too much about the Holocaust but I do know that Hitler was the leader of it and he had an image of the perfect race; blonde hair and blue eyes. He put all the Jews into concentration or death camps. He killed them in gas chambers. I think I read one book on it in sixth grade when we did a unit on it but I don't remember what it was about and I did see a movie about a girl who was named after her aunt and she thinks it's stupid until she learns that her aunt was killed in the Holocaust then she has a dream that she is her aunt and wakes up and has a lot more respect for the stories that people tell about how she got her name and the Holocaust and stuff like that.

Miranda Levesque

1/28/2010

I know a little about the holocaust. I know that Hitler (a German) went around killing all of the jews. He did this because he thought that they were a disgrace to the world. Also I know that many people were tortured and killed, and sent to concentration camps.

Rachael Trammell.

1/28/2010

The Holocaust fascinates me in many ways. I love talking about such a sad topic. I have studied the Holocaust many many times. I have read books on it, like Yellow Star. I have heard movies are coming out with th latest celebrities in them. I know that if you had a family that you would be separated from each other. Some may stay with each other, some may not. They would be put to work, or they would be put into gas chambers to be killed. No matter what the Jewish died from this. The Concentration camps were run by Hitler. It is ridiculous because his mother was half Jewish, which makes him half Jewish as well. I know that people have used signals to one another to escape, or help people escape. People have survived this to live and share their story. They could only eat a certain amount of food, they slept on wood boards and had nothing to keep them warm. They were put on certain tasks worked to death practically. It's sad to hear about this so much, yet though it makes me so amazed at this whole situation.

karen Phipps

1/28/2010

I only know that Hitler went around & killed the Jews. But thats all I know, I don't think I've seen any movies, or read any books. I wouldn't mind learning more.

Matthew

1/28/2010

Back when the German army was full of men that decided to kill off other men of a differnt religion. Headed by Hitler the Nazi party was in power in Germany and the laws were harsh, Hitler was leading his people on a march on Europe that killed thousands on the field and many more by gas pits or killed because they were Jewish. Germany, Italy and Japan were allied, and facing the U.S, U.K, and France the war raged but Hitler was killed by Russians and Americans, then we A-bombed the Japanese to end it all. It worked and now America is on top of the world for ending World War ll

Joey Priebe

1/28/2010

i know that the holocaust happened during WWll. Hitler ran the german army and he really didn't like the jewish people. he locked them up in camps to work or be killed. this time peirod was the bloodyest time in american history. i feel sorry for all the people killed during this time.

Zachary Burgess

1/28/2010

hI no the holocaust was between the Jews and Hitler. Hitler didn't like the Jews and he wanted to kill them. he put them in camps and had them killed in horrible ways and the jews began to die off it was a horrible time and Hitler and his people were called the Nazi's and they were a bad group of people. other than that i dont no much about the holocaust and i am excited to learn about it

Chase

1/28/2010

I don't know much about the Holocaust but what I do Know is that Hitler wanted a perfect world and killed anyone who he didn't think was perfect it happened during WW2 and many people were killed.

Jade Elizabeth

1/28/2010

I know a fair amount on the holocaust. The holocaust happened during WW2, when Hitler was the fuhrer of Germany. Not many people knew what was happening. Jews where locked up in ghettos and then taken to death camps or concentration camps. Jews weren't the only people killed during the holocaust; Homosexuals, Gypsies and mentally ill people were also killed. In death camps, the prisoners where put into chambers that looked like showers and gassed. After their bodies where incinerated in giant ovens. The most famous death camp is Auschwitz. Also doctors and scientists preformed gruesome experiments on the prisoners and even babies. The most well know doctor is Dr.Mangler. no one really knows what happened to Hitler after the holocaust. Many think that he killed himself and other think that he escaped. I have read quite a few books on the holocaust for i am quite interested in this matter. The best book i have read so far about the holocaust is "Yellow Star". Its about a little Jewish girl who grows up during the holocaust and its a true story.

Lacey

1/28/2010

I have read a little bit about the Holocaust. Hitler was a German leader who killed many Jewish people. Some books I have read are "Yellow Star" and "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas". I also believe that I read the diary of Anne Frank once, though I can't remember it. Even though I don't know a ton about the Holocaust, it is a subject that interests me very much.

Brandon Fogg

1/28/2010

I know that the Holocaust was during WWII. Hitler was the head Nazi of the Socialist Party. There were two powers: Axis and Alies. The Nazi's tried to kill all Jews.

Krysten Townsend

1/28/2010

The Holocaust was when the Nazis put Jewish people into concentration camps. 6 million Jewish people were killed. Some died of disease, some from starvation and some were killed burned to death I think. Hitler was the person behind this because he believed that all of the problems people faced were caused by Jews and they should be punished for it. So he and the Nazis were in charge of handling the Jews, who were stripped of their clothing and forced into crowded rooms with other people.

Mikko Liimatta

1/28/2010

I know a little about the holocaust. I can tell you that last year in social studies we read a book called Marika and it was about a girl and her family during the holocaust trying to survive.

Amandaa.

1/28/2010

What I know about the Holocaust is that it was during World War II, the Nazi's killed Jewish people and Hitler was the leader of the Nazi's. I've read "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and "Yellow Star". But I'm not sure if I've read any others. But the Holocaust interests me very much.

Tyler

1/28/2010

I only know a little about the Holocaust.I know that hitler was the German leader and he killed a lot of jews. I also herd that Hitler killed himself because he found out that he was a jew.

Bobbiejean Scott

1/28/2010

I don't really know anything about the Holocaust. But I learned a little about it in 8th grade. But i don't really remember much.

Moriah

1/28/2010

I know a little about the Holocaust. I have only watched movies on it in social studies last year. I have read two books about it, The Book Thief and Number the Stars. I enjoyed The Book Thief more even though it was really depressing in some parts. Some general information that I know is that Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party which was based from Germany. He hated people with certain religions and ethnicities so he decided to capture them and put them into concentration camps. From the concentration camps they would be moved to death camps. People would be put into giant gas chambers and be killed. Families were separated from each other and many, many people died. Hitler didn't only kill Jews.

bruceyoung

1/28/2010

i dont know a whole lot about the halocausust all i know is that hitler hated the jews and wanted them all dead.

Brittany

1/28/2010

i don't know much bout it except that Hitler went and killed the jews

Alissa

1/29/2010

The Holocaust is not something i know much about, but i do know a little. I know that Hitler was very against the Jews, He put them in to concentration camps where he beat and worked them to death. I also know that Jews were put into gas chambers. But most importantly I know The holocaust was a horrible and tragic event and changed the world forever.

Hannah

1/29/2010

I know little about the Holocaust because we learned about it in social studies last year. We had to read a book called the boy in the striped pajamas. In the end the boy died in a gas chamber. Hitler killed and tortured a lot of the jews. We also watched movies about the holocaust.

Zac Knox

1/29/2010

I don't really know much about it but we did learn about it a little last year in social studies. I have read a few books about this but most I don't remember the names of. One that I remember is "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." Other then these few books I have read I don't really know anything but it seems like it is interesting to learn about.

Gabby

1/29/2010

I dont know a lot about the holocaust, but I do know that it was horrible, and changed the lives of Jewish people forever.I know that many people died. There were consentration camps for the Jews. They put them in gas rooms and they died there. I saw a pretty sad movie about the holocaust, Boy in the stripped pajamas.

Colin

1/29/2010

I know a lot about the Holocaust. I've read a lot of books on Hitler, Herman goring, and many other of his occomplices. I forget most of there names but he had his own personal arcitect and herman goring was his second in command and head of the nazi air force that went up agains RALF. I know that both herman and hitler killed themselfs.

Angel Witham

1/29/2010

I know mainly what most people would know about the Holocaust. Hitler was the big leader of going against the Jewish people. A lot of people have died during the Holocaust. There were horrible deaths, people put in gas chambers. Some of the people were buried into the grounds in trenches. They even did experts on the Jewish people. Hitler didn't like Jewish people and the perfect people were the ones with blue eyes. Which is weired because he had brown eyes. I have seen some movies, the "The Boy in Striped Pants". I have read plenty of books about it too. That is mostly the only things that I know about the Holocaust.

Colin

1/29/2010

zac knox i think you should read more books about the holocaust. thats the key to leaning

Hannah

1/29/2010

I agree with Gabby that a lot of people died and it was horrible.She saw the movie of The Striped Pajamas and I read the book.

Angel Witham

1/29/2010

Colin
What else do you know. Also Hitler is a name and a proper noun so you capitalize it. Maybe you should read more things about it.

Spencer Thompson

1/29/2010

I know a little bit of what happened we read a book called the boy in the striped pajamas and things like that and we watched a few movies on the subject they have been slowly teaching us about the holocaust in my school from about 5th or 6th grade they have been teaching little by little

Hannah

1/29/2010

Gabby- I agree that a lot of jewish people died in the concentration camps and it was horrible.

BEN DILL

1/29/2010

I dont no much about the holocaust but ive sean movies about it

Courtney.

1/29/2010

I don't know that much about the Holocaust. I know that a lot of people were killed. I also know that a lot of people got very sick.

Jackie Bressette

1/29/2010

I know that the Holocaust was the start or the second World War. and that Hitler was a 'evil' man who started the killing of all Jews, handicaps, and other people that were not 'white'. I have seen the movie Hitler's List, which was about the Holocaust. And I have read books about the topic.

Libby

1/29/2010

I have learned about the Holocaust a lot. Even though I don't remember much. I have read the books, "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" & "Number the Stars". Also, I watched a movie about kids in a small town getting a bunch of paper clips from famous people & putting them in a train that carried Jews. They ended up with a lot! All I know is that Hitler was a guy who tried to kill all jews. Nazis were like, the people who actually killed them though. It was during World War ll. Also, I heard that Hitler's mom, was atcually going to have an abortion, but the doctor talked her out of it!

Courtney.

1/29/2010

Hannah. I agree with the comment about the gas chamber.

Libby

1/29/2010

Rachael, I agree with you :) I know about the same things as you do.

Kayla

1/29/2010

i dont really remember what i was taught about the holocaust.

Courtney.

1/29/2010

Hannah. I agree with the comment about the gas chamber. I also know that a lot of the Jewish people died because of it.

Miranda Mack-Jackson

1/29/2010

The Holocaust was bad? Hitler was involved, and i really, really don't like him, sorry to say but I'm glad he is no longer living.
I have read about it but i don't remember the books names

Awh-Lexxis

1/29/2010

I don't know much about it. But what I do know is that Hitler killed &+ tortured many jews. I haven't seen any movies. But I have read The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas.

Kristen W

1/29/2010

Last year in 8th grade we learned about it. We watched movies as well on it. I know that it really made me sick that someone would kill innocent people just because that is what Hitler wanted. I would like to learn some more about this subject other than what I already have.

Micaela

1/29/2010

I know some about the Holocaust, I know that Hitler killed and tortured thousands of Jews, I love to learn about the holocaust, I think its really interesting, Ive read a book on it called The Boy in Stripped Pajamas. Ive also seen a movie on it called the Band of Brothers.

Dillon Frechette

1/29/2010

The Holocaust was the Germans trying to take over and eliminate all the Jewish people is they didn't have blue eyes and blond hair. The people involved were Hitler and many many Jewish people. Hitler was a seriously troubled man and its good he died. Last year is social studies we read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and we also watched a movie or two about it but i dont remember what it was.

joe

1/29/2010

I know a little bit about the holocaust. Like a lot of jews died. And Hitler was pretty much a evil person. An that Hitler's "definition" of a jew was someone with blonde hair blue eyes, or someone that actually was jewish?

Dillon Frechette

1/29/2010

Haha Dexter I don't think I can picture you going and watching something on the History channel about it even when you are bored.

kristen w

1/29/2010

Miranda L, Hitler wasn't a German he was Austrian

Dakota Durgin

1/29/2010

The holocaust is when Hittler brought all the Jews to Camps and put them in gas chambers and used them for experiments .

Arielle Williams

1/29/2010

All i know about the holocaust is that hitler absolutley despised jews he didn't even consider them to be humans he considered them animals and thought they needed to die so he and his soldiers treated them horribly and killed them even though they were innocent poeple. He thought that if someone that was not a jew had a certain bone structure and had blonde hair and blue eyes they were almost like a god i guess you could say.

people with blonde hair and blue eyes were considered humans and he wanted to be like that. i heard he had some jewish in him but i'm not sure.

i have read Anne Franks diary and the boy in stripped pajamas they are both very sad stories.

Darien

1/29/2010

I don't know much about the holocaust but what I do know is that it was ran by Hitler and the Germans. And that it was based on a bunch of camps called death camps where Hitler kept and tortured and starved hundreds of thousands of jewish people no matter what age they were. Weather they were children, adults, men, or women they all got to be tortured in some way. The only forms of torture that I know that they did to the jewish people is that they starved them and put them in ovens. I also know that very few survived the holocaust. Also that a lot of people that were killed kept journals about how there life was being tortured by the Germans.

Chelsea

1/29/2010

I studied the holocaust in social studies last year. I know many people were killed and tortured, and I learned about some of the death camps that there were. We also learned a little bit about Hitler.

nathan

1/29/2010

I have read some stuff about world war 2 and hitler i no that he was a very hated man by alot of people and that he hated lews i cant really remeber why he hated them. but he had many consitration camps where he would kill jews and torcher them during the war when he new that he was going to lose he commited suiced because he didnt want to be killed by another man.

Kayla DeCoteau-Hodgkin

1/29/2010

I dont really no anything about the holocaust but i know that there were death camps,for the jews, and that were not treated at all nice! Some people are still alive and some kept journals and something about a man named Hitler.All jew no matter what they were, were still killed do to the fact that they were jewish. I no there are some books about it and I read one or two but it never said very much about it.

Catherine MacDonald

1/29/2010

In eighth grade we learned about the Holocaust. We watched several movies of survivors that lived to tell their stories. We also read a lot out of the textbook. We learned that it was between the Nazi's and Jews led by Hitler. One of the famous people that was involved in the Holocaust was Anne Frank. She was taken from her house and put into hiding, but later was discovered and she was killed. They put people in concentation camps and gassed them. The Jewish captives were in death marches to the place where they gassed them. We also read a book called "The Boy in Striped Pajamas"

Chelsea

1/29/2010

Kristen W.- I agree with you, it's sad and sickening that somebody could go around and kill innocent people. I also remember the movies we had to watch last year.

Mike

1/29/2010

The holocaust was Hitler killing jews. He would bring all of the jewish people to concentration camps and alot of the time they would be killed in a chamber of gas or shot. I also heard that at some of the camps Natzi doctors would test stuff on the jews.

Kolbi

1/29/2010

All I know about the Holocaust is that a lot of Jewish people died in the most horrible ways. I have read one book about it, called Night. I have also watched a movie about it, I cannot remember the name, but it has Kirstin Dunst in it.

Elizabeth

1/29/2010

In 8th grade we learned about the holocaust but I don't really remember anything.

chris

1/29/2010

Tyler i have the same amount of knowledge as you.. and i cant remember much but i do know that mrs ditomasso tried to teach me but i zoned out!!!!

Meghan

1/31/2010

This topic I find to be very interesting as well as fascinating its something I enjoy learning about. I studied it briefly in 6th grade as well as 8th grade. I have seen three movies on the holocaust, Schindler's List, The Devil's Arithmetic, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Some books I have read on this topic are The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Devil's Arithmetic, and Hitler Youth. These were all very good but sad movies and books. I know that the holocaust started when Aldof Hilter won his place in office in Germany and that's when the allagations on jews began. First they were put into overcrowded ghetto's they then from there moved onto concentration camps or death camps. I know that one of the camps was called Auschwitz, which was a death camp. I'm looking forward to learning more.

Meghan

1/31/2010

I would like to add to what rachael said that Hilter killed 6 million jews and 5 million others totaling to an 11 million people that died.

cort mccutcheon

2/1/2010

i know some about the holocaust because we did some work on it in the 8th grade and i know hitler was a men dude who killed the jews because he didnt fit in and he thought they were the problem. he put them in gas chambers and burned them. he killed himself because he was a coward and he killed his family too when he killed himself. i hate hitler and i think that he should be alive today so someone can shoot him. or burn him. or put him in a gas chamber. or shove bambo splinters under his fingernails....

cort mccutcheon

2/1/2010

the holocaust occured during ww2 and it was messy. a lot of jews were killed they were kept in concentration camps and had no clothes or food. they slept on wooden beds and were so cramped they practically slept on each other

billy leahy

2/2/2010

When I hear the word holocaust I think about world war 2 between u.s. and germany. The holocaust was when Hitler killed 6 million jews. He killed them by gas and he didn't feed them or anything just left them there to die.

DYLAN J STILES

2/2/2010

I don't know a lot about the Holocaust I know that they killed a lot of jews and that Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party

Dustin

2/4/2010

I do not know a whole lot about the Holocaust.... I know that Hitler was the man that put all the Jews into concentration camps and killed them.

Taylor Hodge

2/11/2010

I know that it was the killing of jews and other races. they were killed in camps and sometimes just shot but it was a mass murder.

nick coffin

2/11/2010

my knowledge of the Holocaust is that the Nazis killed i think 6 million Jews and put them on camps with handicapped people and others. the U.S. and G.B. S.U. were in the war against Nazi, Italy and Japan.

2/23/2010

all i know about the holocaust is that hittler killed as many jews as he could find. i know that that they sent the jews to a death camp in aschwitz.

Valleri K.

2/26/2010

I know a fair amount about the holocaust. I know that Hitler was Austrian and that he wanted all jews dead and only people with blonde hair and blue eyes to make a perfect race, even though he didn't have them. Hitler killed more than 6 million Jews and also handicapped and "imperfect" people. I read a book called Number the Stars which was about the Holocaust and the Star of David. I also watched a movie called Paperclips. It was about this sixth grade class that wanted to collect more than 6 million paperclips to symbol all of the Jews that died and that they got very famous people to send some paperclips. Also that all of the paperclips cot stored in a car that was used to transport Jewish people to the concentration and death camps. I also know a little about the camps like Aushwitz and how it was 3 camps in one and there were more than 1 million people killed there. I also know a little about memorials. There is a huge memorial that is mushroom shaped ane it has actual ashes under it and at the end of every day, a worker has to go and sweep the ashes up to the bottom of the monument because they blow around.

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