Here are some photos I’ve started collecting that will be used in my photo journal autobiography a photo of “myself” A photo of “my brother” A photo of a line of German political prisoners, one “my father”, all in a line having just arrived at Sachenhausen Or a photo of when I watched the soldiers ride…
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my Character
Since our trip is about to begin, I’m using this log to introduce my character. My character is a thirteen-year-old German-Jewish girl named Sarah. She has just watched many officials come into her home and take her father away to a concentration camp. (We will later learn that he was taken to Sachsenhausen) In school,…
David Mermelstein
Reading Reflection, Chapter 6- Unwelcome Strangers This chapter especially resonated with me because as I began reading it, it reminded me of the story of a Holocaust survivor that I had the opportunity to hear speak. I listened to the story of David Mermelstein, a man who witnessed the occupation of his home in Czechoslovakia…
Top 3 Reasons Rollins College Fox Day is the same as the Hitler’s Birthday festivities
Upon beginning reading Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse, I was inspired by the details of the festivities associated with the celebration of Adolf Hitler’s birthday on April 20th in 1939. Throughout reading the prologue, I could not help but notice the similarities between the morale of the German city on Hitler’s birthday and that…