Final Reflection Paper

Final Reflection Paper

Dr. Park Coming to America

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Jocelyn Park: Wannsee Conference

The Wannsee conference

Holocaust Outline: Jocelyn Park

Outline

Sophie's Choice

I have studied the Holocaust before in middle and highschool yet every time I relearn about the events and fact about the holocaust, the reaction is the same. It disgusts me how people can be so cruel to others because of their beliefs. When Sophie chose her daughter to be taken away, I thought "What made her choose her son over her daughter?" Maybe it was to carry on the family name or maybe because he's older. Whatever the reason, it must've been really hard yet she's lucky to even have a choice to keep one of her children.

Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Jocelyn Park

One of the Holocaust survivor testimonies I watched was a woman named Nechama Shneorson. Nechama and her family were forced into a ghetto in Kovno. It was surrounded by wired fences was they were always watched by the German army and Lithuanian police. People got use to the disastrous life, people got married and had children. "I would say the worse impact of life to me personally was the day that they came to ake the children away from the ghetto. That was an action that destroyed me, at this point because I have seen how they did it and what they did to the kids. They came in with trucks and dogs, screamed whoever has little kids to come outside and they didn't take the mother and child together." If a woman wouldn't give their child freely, they would be torn apart my the dogs until she gave up the child. The babies were thrown against the trucks repeatively. Listening to Nechama telling me about the children being taken and thrown around made my heart drop. She was sent to the death camp Stutoff. She would sneek out of the camp into a families home where they allowed her to stay for the day to work. She fed the cows and pigs potatoes. She would eat some potatoes for herself and take some back to the camp for her friends. One day the Germans to the prisoners into the woods to leave them because the Russians were closing in. After working on a Russian farm for 6 months, she was reunited with her sister.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-HZE28BHs&feature=relmfu

Nathan Shapow, a Holocaust survivor. He told me how people between the ages of 16 and 25 were forced into ghettos and the rest were sent to be killed. He was then sent to Stutoff which was a death camp. Men and women came daily wearing only blankets watiingo to be gassed. The Germans asked for engineers, Nathan happened to be an engineer. They sent the engineers to Maldibour which was a labor camp, there wasn't any killing. He worked to load and unload piles of coals with a shovel. Soldiers didn't feed the worker so they ate what the pigs ate. Nathan and his friends jumped the electrical fence but his legs got caught and he fell losing consciousness. Germans made first aid stations because they needed the prisoners to be able to work. He was buried up to the neck so the curren would leave his body. "When I walked out of the ground out of the hole, I walked like I had never walked before." After being freed; Nathan, his new wife, and his friends traveled to Palestine. Nathan opened a small business, had a son, and everyone around him was happy. After 16 years, the family moved to America. "Coming to the United States was like coming to heaven."
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kROIojk7JLw