Author: jfitzsimmons
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Light, Darkness & Chaos
Created by Luke Oldershaw, Max Kulewicz, Austin Slugg, Sammy Farjani Introduction Our artifact,“Light At The End Of The Tunnel” and documentary about concentration camps explore how poorly the undesirables were treated inside the Camps, and the feeling that they felt while inside the camp. Our artifact primarily focuses on two main ideas being darkness and…
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Death Camp Horrors
Created by Vinny Hogan, Remy Csendes, Romir Vishwanath, & Bryce Nash Introduction Our artifact is titled “The Unforgotten tragedies”. We wanted to name it this because of the many tragedies that happened in these camps including starvation, deaths, and diseases. These death camps can not slip through our history so we wanted to capture the…
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Resettlement
Created by Mason Principe, Mitchell Ntuen, Max Maturah & Andrew Sells Introduction Ghettos are poor urban areas occupied primarily by a minority group or groups. During WWII, German occupation authorities concentrated Jewish populations in ghettos in urban and regional areas. Ghettos were established across Europe by German forces, with the first one in Poland in…
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Propaganda & Censorship
Created by Beckett Kavanagh, Alex Sutton, & Milo Dubois Introduction Our topic is Nazi propaganda and Censorship. Throughout this project we have attempted to capture how effective the use of propaganda by the Nazi’s was in convincince the public of their horrid antisemitic ideals. Our main focus for this project was researching and telling the…
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Nuremberg Laws
Created by Spencer Heim, Alex Feldman, & Sebastian Schnelldorfer Introduction Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent fringilla porta augue nec pellentesque. Sed nec est a justo elementum tristique. Curabitur non rutrum ex. Integer quis tincidunt dolor, sed tristique odio. Pellentesque mattis imperdiet hendrerit. Video Script Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing…
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Art, Poetry & Literature
Created by Matt Goorno, Anthony Ji, Ethan Na, & Alex Signorovitch Introduction Adolf Hitler, an unsuccessful artist rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, thought of himself as an expert, or connoisseur of the arts. In his book Mein Kampf, he hatefully attacked modern art and labeled it as degenerate. When Hitler became chancellor…
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Anti Semitism
A lasting impact on society Created by Charlie Whitmore, According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the definition of Anti-Semitism is as follows: “Anti Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property,…
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Ghettos
Created by Ilan Clemens, Cass Myler, Colter Martin & Will Cook Introduction In our project about the ghettos, we didn’t just want to talk about the ghettos, but how they came to be and what their effect was on the Jewish people and how they tied into WWII. Moral & Physical Boundaries Before the Holocaust,…
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Sir Nicholas Winton
Created by Juwan Acevedo, Kyle Wang, Patch Remington A glimmer of hope shining bright in the middle of enveloping darkness During the Holocaust, British stockbroker and humanitarian Sir Nicholas George Winton (19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) assisted in saving Jewish children who were in danger of being killed by Nazi Germany. On the…
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Krakow Pharmacy
Created by Peter Belin, Hanwen Tang & Yang Lu Introduction Our project talks about the Krakow Ghetto Pharmacy, and aims to make this not too well known topic more well known because it is interesting and powerful. One man saved over one thousand Jewish lives while he and his employees risked their own in a…