The Holocaust

Author: toni b /


It’s 1943, it’s dark and gloomy. I’m in a room that isn’t big at all. My wife and 9 year old son are behind me sleeping, the others are dead. From what? I don’t know. It could be from not eating because we have no food. It could be from diseases. The food we do get we share. We barely get by but we try to make it work.

I don’t know how many days we’ve been in here. I don’t know how many days we can stay alive either. We might have to eat what’s left of the ones who passed away just to stay alive. We used to be a happy family that lived in a nice home with heat and cold when we needed it. But not anymore, NO! not anymore. We have nothing now, not even air. We have to ask to breathe too. Oh no, I have to go; I think I hear a guard coming.

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Holocaust

Author: Anonymous /



The train ride was horrifying. We were packed in and hot and the unlucky ones just died right in front of me, but surprisingly I was only frightened because I didn’t know where I was being taken. When I was forced off the train car I was lead towards a line with mostly men who were healthy looking people and the others were sent to another line. After being stripped of my clothing I was sent to a shower. After we left the shower, a guard handed us a set of clothing. Then we were sent to another line where our identification numbers were tattooed on our forearms. From that point on we were only known as our numbers, but not our birth given names.

We were woken up early morning to work. It was brutal forced labor working outside in high heat and below freezing temperatures in the winter. Beatings were frequent for no reason at all. I was only beaten once, but my new friends were not as lucky. Every few months a German guard would come in to our barracks and choose them at random to be beaten. I was horrified when I started seeing the only 5 friends I had just start disappearing and dying one by one. Three were brutally beaten to death and two were sent to the gas chambers. Being the only one left I still have hope, but I don’t know if tonight will be my last night. I might be next.

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Holocaust

Author: Ethan /


The German army dropped me off at this camp about 3 months ago. Every day there are new people at this camp. This is sad to say but people die in this camp every day. The Germans kill us in different ways; it’s horrible. They don’t really give us any space to sleep mainly because the camp is so overpopulated. I am also very depressed about not seeing my wife and kid’s. They separated all the men, women, and children.
I do get fed in the camp, but it is not that good. There are not great amounts of food to be passed to all of us. That makes it very hard on me especially because I am old, and have to work very hard. Everybody in the camp is very skinny except for the people who are new. Even though this camp is killing me I want to make it through the day. The reason why is so that one day I can see my wife and Children.

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Holocaust

Author: rhettk /




Hi I’m the tall man in the picture. I have been here for a long time. Life is hard on me. I have to work and I get beat up a lot. I get to eat maybe once a week. I barely get anything to drink. The place around here smells like dead carcass. People have a bunch of diseases. If I don’t do what I’m told I will get killed? I will be whipped.
Some of my family was killed for not doing they were told what to do. Some of my family is still here. I have not seen any of my family for a year or so. I have been in trouble a lot but I’m a hard worker.

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The Holocaust

Author: TylerP /


(Man on the bottom left hand corner perspective)

I do not know how long I have been here. It feels likes years. My muscles have grown frail and weak from lack of food and rest. The toxic air that is made from the fallen poisons our bodies further, allowing us to join them sooner and sooner. They cramp us so closely together it’s amazing that any body is still alive, let alone me. I have not seen my family since I’ve arrived. I do not know what has befallen them. Were they able to somehow to escape from those demons in human skin the people calls Nazis? Or were they suffering the same fate as me?
Dear god, how I long to see my little girl, my little boy, and my beautiful wife. My body is starting to eat itself, inside out. Could they really be going through what I am? Could the Devil who rules that army of demons possible be the ruler of Hell himself!? Such a cold hearted man who laughs in secret as we are being pressed further and further into Hell by his unfathomable hands, stained red with the bloody cries of those who have fallen?
What can we do? As we speak, I myself am hardly able to stay alive. I do not know what to do. I apologize if my paper is damp for the tears of those who have lost so much and are poor, as well as gods tears as the rain leaks through the cracks on the roof. Somehow, I cannot help but smile. In these times, my body is near its death, my bones are aching and my muscles are eating themselves. But as the tears of god pours down on us, I know he has not forsaken us. I think about the souls of those who have fallen, the cries of the children, and the sorrow of those who wish us well. If only that was enough though.
It looks like this will by my last sight. My body is starting to end. As we speak, it is taking everything I have left to finish this letter. To those who may read it in the future, even though I am burning with pain and almost to weak to move. I cannot help but smile. My time in Hell is finally done. I can finally be at peace, with the ones I care about. So as I write this last sentence, I bid you farewell. To those who have died here, please allow me to join you. For I shall be able to see my family once again. Do not forget those who have fallen.

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Holocaust

Author: TylerC /

This is me on the right I have been here for about 6 months. The person next to me is a kid I knew a long time ago but we meet back up here at this concentration camp. He has only been here for 3 months but he is younger than me. It is being really hard on him as it is for all of us. We don’t really know what is going on here. The Germans brought us here saying it was a work camp. They took all of our stuff that had any value. Then they put us in these little rooms and we have just been staying here ever since they don’t tell us anything. I see someone die just about everyday now this place is a horror story. Its like something you would read in a book. I have seen some of the nicest and older people I know just be killing for nothing I have seen little kids starving to death. People are going crazy in here. People try to get out but we are all to weak to do anything. They give us some food and drinks. Just look at me and you can tell how little they have giving me to eat. All I want to do is get out of here and go see my wife and my two little girls. I have not seen them in over a year I don’t really remember what they look like. Its starting to get really hard for me to get up in the morning but I do because think I am going to get out of here one day I don’t really know if I will ever get out of here or if to day is going to be the day the pick me to kill. As each day goes bye it gets harder and harder every night I stay up crying just think is tonight my last night but hope I get one more day in me.

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Holocaust

Author: Frank /


These are just some of the people we had to kill during the holocaust. I was part of the Nazis with Hitler and the crew because if I didn’t join I would have died. I had to do a lot of work during the war. I had to kill a lot of innocent people. During the holocaust I tortured people it was part of joining the army with Hitler.

I killed a lot of innocent people during the holocaust. I didn’t enjoy killing all of them but I had no choice. If I didn’t I would have died along with them and I don’t want that. This was one of the concentration camps I worked at. It was called Trzebnia. It hurt me a lot when I killed all those poor people. I also lit people on fire sometimes when we were told to burn them to death. This was one of the most crazy jobs I have ever had to do.

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The Holocaust

Author: shantelr /


My name is Annelies Marie Frank. I was one of the million Jewish children who died in the holocaust and this is my story. I lived with my parents and my older sister Margot. We lived in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt. In 1934, my father Otto Frank left us to go to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. My father had business connections. Mom and sister followed my father but I stayed with my grandparents in Aachen. I arrived to be with my family in February 1934.

It was the first half of July when my family and I went into hiding. We had a secret room that was located behind a book shelf. Four Dutch Jews were in that room, there names were Hermann, Auguste, and Peter Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer. For two long years we lived in this secret attic. In my spare time I wrote in my diary like ever girl does. I wrote about everything that was going on and how my day went. A friend of ours would get clothes and food for us. That was a huge risk for everybody. Suddenly on August 4, 1944 the Gestapo (German Secret State police) had discovered the hiding place, Some anonymous Dutch caller gave us up.

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Holocaust

Author: get some /


The holocaust was the systematic state sponsored persecution and murder around six million Jews by the Nazis regime and its collaborators. The Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”. In 1933 the Nazis who took power in Germany believed Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews deemed “inferior” were an alien threat to the so called German racial community.

The final few months of the war the SS guards migrated camp inmates by train or with forced marches, also called “death marches” in the attempt to prevent the Allies liberation of large numbers of prisoners. They did not stop the marched until May 7 1945.

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Holocaust

Author: Elliot /


The year is 1944. The war in Germany was very intense. I am an American soldier. We have seen thousands of horrible things. We have seen stuff that we didn’t expect to see. American soldiers fought in Germany for about two years before the war began coming to an end. We moved from town to town clearing homes and the streets of German Nazis. About 300,000 German soldiers surrendered and were captured.

After years of fighting and the war coming to an end, we were just sent on patrol duty to scout the land for things we missed. As you see in the picture above we missed stuff like this the first time around. In this picture there are a bunch of captured Jews that didn’t make through the of war. We were on patrol we came across these camps. These camps are being called German concentration camps which held the Jews. The people were starved and weak with no hope of living; it is just sickening. As American soldiers we did what we could to help these prisoners by giving them food, water and clothing. After stumbling across something like this we knew that fighting this war was right.

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Holocaust

Author: BrendanP /


I am a Army soldier from the U.S. . One day on patrol we came across a work camp. There were no soldiers in the camp. There were a lot of Jews still there. They were slowly dying from starvation.
We went to help and to look around. I went in this building it was dark and had a odor to it. I stumbled into a room with an oven. The oven door was slightly ajar so I opened it. To my horror, there was a body in there. The smell was unbearably. I looked as if they were burning the bodies because there were too many to bury. That is how I got this picture.

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Interviewing Elie Wiesel

Author: MichaelA /



Interviewing Eliezer ‘Elie’ Wiesel, a living holocaust survivor from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, and understanding the misery he went through.

Can you tell us about yourself?

Elie said he is a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Mr. Wiesel established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity soon after he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace. The Foundation's mission, rooted in the memory of the Holocaust, is to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogue and youth-focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding and equality.

Can you tell us about your time during World War II?

In 1944 Elie, his family and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Elie and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street. On May 16, 1944, the Hungarian authorities allowed the German army to deport the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz Birkenau. While at Auschwitz, his inmate number, "A-7713", was tattooed onto his left arm. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister Tzipora, who are presumed to have died at Auschwitz. Wiesel and his father were sent to the attached work camp Buna-Werke, a sub camp of Auschwitz III Monowitz. He managed to remain with his father for over eight months as they were forced to work under appalling conditions and shuffled between three concentration camps in the closing days of the war. On January 29, 1945, just a few weeks after the two were marched to Buchenwald; Wiesel's father died from dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion, and was later sent to the crematorium, only months before the camp was liberated by the American Third Army on April 11. His total time spent in concentration camps was less than eleven months..

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Holocaust

Author: Roberto C /


I am the one lying down on the second shelf. And I am the one on the right the way to the right. My head is so heavy I have to prop it up. When I got here I was 17 years old and I was with my dad and my uncle. Over the years I have seen a lot of brutal things at the camp. I have seen people die out in the fields and I still have that image in my head. Then when I go to bed I just think of all the people that are dying0 and worry about my dad and my uncle. I have not seen them in several months. I have no idea where my mom and my brother are at.
The image in my head is just brutal. I lost all of my friends that I use to bunk with and they died in the bunk. I had my friend in my hands while he was dying. In the morning I wake up and see less people in camp.. People are dying every which way one day I tried to find them but I heard the guards grabbed them. I thought for a while that they were died and one day I found out that they both had died. Since I am now alone, no family and not much to live for, I will never act the same. You might ask about my dad and my uncle.

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New Deal

Author: rhettk /


The WPA was around in the 1930. They helped find job for a lot of people. There was 10, 0000 unemployed people. They started to pay those people. They were paid about 50.00 a month for the work that they did. There was some rough time back in the day. They had to live on very low amount of money. They built a lot of stuff back in the day.
They built a bunch of trails. They built 1634 news school. They got paid very little for the work that they did. They build 105 new airports. They build 3000 new tennis courts. They build 3300 new storage dams for the people. They also build 103 new golf courses. And they also build 5800 mobile libraries. They built a lot of stuff that we still have today.

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By Ethan


The civilian conservation corps is a program for young men to have jobs. It is designed to help out the unemployment in the United States. Franklin D Roosevelt was the president who came up with the idea. The CCC became one of the more popular new Deal programs. Although the CCC was never considered a permanent program; it can still be used for emergencies. In 1942 they stopped the CCC program because jobs have gotten better.
Before President Roosevelt was elected more than 25% of the population was unemployed, and hungry. CCC is known as the greatest conservation program in America. The CCC also helped redeveloped the forest it as part of the working program. Roosevelt was a president who came up with a good work program. CCC helped America get out of the depression.

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THE NEW DEAL

Author: Shawn J /



In 1943 newly elected president Franklin D. Roosevelt first new deal initiatives was the Establishment of the emergency conservation work act or the (ECW) better known as the (CCC) civilian conservation corps. This relief and conservation program was made to provide jobs for the unemployed young men and veterans to provide income to support their family’s. At the same time this program also focused on improving the nations open spaces and recreational resources. Were it not for the CCC many of the natural and cultural resources in America probably would have been lost. Seventy five years later the work of the CCC still forms the cornerstone of the system that includes roads, trails, ponds, forest plantations and recreational facility’s built by the CCC. these can be found in every region of the united states.

The Massachusetts (CCC) branch was sometimes called “Roosevelt’s tree army”. They planted over 12,000,000 trees and improved existing forest stands by selective thinning and pruning. The men also cut trails and built bridges and dug up ponds. They also laid out picnic and camp grounds. From 1933-1942 was concerned with improvement and development with state park resources. During this period about 68 camps enrolled nearly 1000,000 men. The men that took a part in the CCC left a lasting legacy of forest improvements and recreational resources all around the state.

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NEW DEAL

Author: TylerC /

The civilian conservation corps or the CCC was something the government came up with for unemployed people. Most of the workers were younger men. Most of them were 18 to 20 years old. They had to take a test to see if they were wanted as a worker there. They had to work for at least 6 months. They would make $30 a month but $22 to $25 would be sent back to their family.


One of the jobs the CCC offered was planning trees. They did this so were wouldn’t be another dust bowl. The dust bowl was a time when the earths soil was so used up that it was just dust. Every time there was some wind it would make a storm of dust. The government way to fight this was to plant trees so the soil would redevelop itself and there would not be no more dust bowls.

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New Deal

Author: TylerP /


ABOUT THE PWA
The Public Works Administration (or PWA for short) was created in 1933 due to the Depression. Its purpose was to focus on employment. In order to do this they had to budgeted several billion dollars to be used on constructions of public work projects.
It would be killing two birds with one stone. People would be able to find jobs during and after the project. Those who were not qualified for the construction would later have a better chance of the new jobs made from the new building. Unfortunately, even after raising $6 billion, the plan was unsuccessful in returning the industry level to that of the pre-depression. It also did not reduce the number of unemployment or even jump start a world wide chain of small businesses.

THE INSIDE SCOOP
The PWA was formed due to the National Industry Recovery act on June 16, 1933. It was headed by Harold L. Ikes. His plans on the project were worded to be ‘spending BIG bucks on BIG projects’. Unfortunately, the President’s, who was FRD at the time, had opposed to deficit spending, the PWA only made it half of its possible success. About eight years later, Roosevelt moved towards war production, chose to abandon his detestation of deficit spending. However, on 1941, the PWA was seen as irrelevant and was there for abolished in June of that year.


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In 1933 America was in the grip of the great depression. There are more than twenty-five percent of people that were unemployed and hungry also they had lost hope. One of the programs was called the New Deal. Franklin Delano Roosevelt created it after he was elected. CCC stands for civilian conservation corps. CCC was run by the U.S Army; they had “three million young men and adult working on building roads, trails, building campgrounds, and fixing up historic buildings”. CCC was one of the most popular New Deal programs.


One controversial topic within the CCC was In July, 1935 these camps were disbanded. Have been disband, and 150 all black companies were set up. The CCC law contained a clause discrimination based on race. The CCC Director Robert Fechner government had said “segregation is not discrimination” but many others in FDR’s have disagreed but, the CCC camps stood their grounds. By 1941 it was disband, the CCC had employed about 3.5 million men. The biggest legacy of the CCC has been the hop it provided both the young men and their families.

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New Deal

Author: Anonymous /


The Public Works Administration was a New Deal agency lead by Harold L. Ickes and was created in June 1933 during the Great Depression. It allowed billions of dollars to be spent on construction to provide employment, improve public welfare, and contribute to a new American Industry. In his presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to include the PWA in his New Deal reforms.

Between July 1933 and March 1939, the PWA helped with the construction of more than 34,000 projects that includes airports, electricity-generating dams, and aircraft carriers. Between 1933 and 1939, 70% of the new schools and 1/3 of the hospitals were built during that time period with the help of the PWA. During its time, the PWA provided the federal government with its first network for the distribution of funds. Unfortunately, when Roosevelt moved industry to war production, the Public Works Administration was abolished in June 1941.

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New Deal

Author: BrendanP /


President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Public Works Administration. He started it in April 8, 1935. It took people out of work and put them to work. It was
the largest New Deal agency. It employed 4,880,000,000 people. These work projects were highways, building construction, slum clearance, reforestation and rural rehabilitation.

One of the things they did was a lodge at Mount Hood. The Timberline Lodge was built in the late 1930 through the efforts of the WPA and the CCC. Workers used large timbers and local stone and carved decorative throughout the building. FDR dedicated it on September 28, 1937which was before it opened to the public five months later.

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New Deal

Author: Roberto C /


The Civilian Conservation Corp was in effect from (1933-1941) Roosevelt was trying to create jobs for the people. Roosevelt recruited thousands of young men to work and also enlisted them and peacetime army.[ FDR's inauguration on March 4, 1933, to inauguration on march 4, 1933 to the inducting of the fast CCC enrollees, only 37 days had elapsed.] The young men planted new trees into the ground. So they would not suffer in the dust bowl again. It kill all of there crops.

This picture shows are the young men working in the fields. There were a lot of young men working in the CCC. In June 1933, the ECW decided that men that were in CCC camps could be given the opportunity of vocational training and additional education. Job included there go like planting new trees in the ground in area affected by the bust bowl. Conservation Corps was one of the most successful New Deal programs of the Great Depression Approximately 55% of enrollees were from rural communities, a majority of which were non-farm; 45% came from urban area.

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New Deal

Author: MichaelA /

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program for unemployed men, providing vocational training through the performance of useful work related to conservation and development of natural resources in the United States. America was in the grip of the Great Depression when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in March of 1933. More than twenty-five percent of the population was unemployed, hungry, and without hope. The New Deal programs instituted bold changes in the federal government that energized the economy and created an equilibrium that helped to bolster the needs of citizens.
The CCC became one of the more popular New Deal programs among the general public, providing economic relief, rehabilitation and training for a total of 3 million men. The CCC also provided a comprehensive work program that combined conservation, renewal, awareness and appreciation of the nation's natural resources.

In this picture, CCC boys work on an example of a project building an adobe house at Mission La Purisima Concepcion de Maria Santisima near Lompoc, Calif., Sept. 23, 1938. The boys go shirtless in the afternoon heat even though Army officers in charge of the camp say it's against regulations.

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Public Works Administration

Author: Gadiel /



In May 17, 1939 men work on an Arkansas river flood control project. Working on a river flood project was a lot of work. It takes forever just to get everything organized and everything in older. Basically in order to get money and feed my family I would have to work so hard and do everything right so I can earn the money with out any problem. By joining the team for the river project I have to work twice as hard. I tell you working hard is a difficult thing to do. But I’m doing it for my family so is all worth it.
When I started working on the river flood control project it took us about 3weeks or more to get everything right. There were about 14 to 20 people working on this river project. Basically all we did was work in the hot sun and dig up the dirt and taking it somewhere so that they Cando something with it. In 1939 finding a job was difficult for me but I’m happy to join the team in Arkansas, even when I didn’t feel like working outside all day and digging up dirt. Working in the hot sun was a really hard thing to do even for the other people but I my family & providing for them is the reason I don’t give up.

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New Deal

Author: DakotaK /

Timberline Lodge is the showplace for the Works Progress Administration projects in Oregon. Its construction was financed with nearly a million dollars from the WPA and additional funding from the Federal Art Project for furnishings and art. Workers came primarily from the WPA, but some jobs—including excavation, road building, and laying the terraces—were performed by the younger men in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The WPA workers lived at Summit Meadow and CCC workers came from Camp Zigzag. The construction was supervised by Lorenz Brothers. When Timberline Lodge Mt. Hood was first opened to the public, the main way up the mountain for skiers was a rope tow, and in 1939 an electric chairlift was installed. Although these additions to the Mt. Hood Timberline Ski Resort Oregon were popular, the lodge did not at first see widespread success, and in the 1950's Timberline Lodge Mt. Hood was all but falling apart. Richard Kohnstamm, whose family still operates the lodge and ski area, is credited with saving the resort from bankruptcy and bringing it to its current status as a successful ski resort. Timberline Lodge Oregon is now privately owned, rather than being a government owned property. The lodge has also made an appearance in a number of films, including, The Shining, Hear No Evil, Bend of the River, and All the young Men.

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