Hello Everybody,
Thanks to everyone who has shared their thoughts so far. Your comments are very insightful. Here are a few more questions to discuss together:
1. When Max and his family were rounded up in the ghetto and put on trains, they were taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. What went through your mind as you read what happened to him and his family?
2. Had you already heard of Auschwitz-Birkenau? Tell me what you already knew about this place.
To students in Targu Lapus:
1. We talked about what happened to the Jews in Reghin. The Jews in Targu Lapus were sent to Dej, where there was also a ghetto. From there, they were also sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Have you ever heard about this?
2. I am very curious about the differences in the ways WWII and the Holocaust are taught in each of our countries. Students in the US usually learn about these topics in English and History classes in middle school and high school. Tell me more about how you learned or were taught about the Holocaust.
1. With what happened to Max and his family at Auschwitz was horrifying, Max lost all his family and was alone. That would be unbearable for anyone to go through.
ReplyDelete2. I had learned of Auschwitz before in history class. I knew it was a concentration camp and the largest.
1. It was really sad how max and his family were separated at Aushwitz.
ReplyDelete2. I've read about Aushwitz before and how it was the worst concentration camp
1.When I read about when Max and his family we're put on the train and token to Auschwitz made me feel really emotional and was thinking what if that was my family
ReplyDelete2.yes I have because I've read many things about Auschwitz and studied things about it in school and out about the gas Chambers and many other things
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ReplyDelete1. I wondered how people could treat each other so terribly.
ReplyDelete2. No, I had not already heard of auschwitz-birkenau.
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ReplyDeleteI had to think about how they even breathed considering how many people were in the carts and how horrible the air most have been considering they had to relieve themselves in the cart.
ReplyDelete1. I️ felt really sad for them, it’s like they were going to their death and not knowing.
ReplyDelete2. yes, I️ knew about the concentrations camps and the gas chambers that was in birkenau.
The horrors Max and his family faced are inimaginable. While I was reading the book, I was continuously thinking that how can you survive after seeing your parents and family die? How can someone recover mentally after experiencing those horrific incidents? I can not even imagine this. Additionally, it is beyond my thoughts that humans can be this much hateful, intolerant, and inhumane towards a group of people.
ReplyDeleteI was worried and saddened, I do not like being separated from my family and reading about what happened to Max and his family made me feel upset and think that nothing like that should ever happen to families again.
ReplyDeleteI read about Auschwitz-Birkenau in the past and knew that it was one of the worst killing centers that the Nazis had in place. I had never read an actual personal account of it.
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ReplyDeleteHonestly, I can not imagine losing my familly. But I can imagine what Max went through in those moments espiacially considering the circumstances. As I was reading the book a lot of thoughts crossed my mind, for instance how could humans be so cruel to their kind or how could they sleep at night?
The history must not be repeated!
I heard that Birkenau was the largest camp of Auschwitz complex and I read that during its three years of operation, approximately, a million people died there and the majority of the victims were Jews
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ReplyDelete1.I felt very sad and I can't imagine that it happened this thing.
2.I haven't heard many things about Auzschivt-Brikeanu . I just know that it was the largest concentration camp.
1.I've heard about the Holocaust through the Internet.We maybe will learn about Holocaust next year because then we will learn about the Second World War at school
2.I have heard about this .
I feel bad for those people who died this way, I can't imagine how could anyone even think about doing this.
ReplyDeleteI read something about the Holocaust, however I haven't heard anything about Auszchivt-Birkenau.
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ReplyDeleteI felt very sad when I found out what happened to those people and by what difficult moments they have passed. I can not imagine how some people can be so inhuman to other people.
1.When I read these two phrases "the selection " and "My parents and sister marched off to the left , and my brother and I marched to the right" I understand that Max's family is lost forever .But the phrase " my parents were holding my litle sister by the hand .That was last time I saw them ... I never saw my family again " . It is deeply graved in my memory.
ReplyDelete2. In holiday I watched many TV documentaries about the Holocaust , Auschwitz Birkenau , and I remember of the searches of corpses where they found in Jews's clothes the precious metals .
1.I heard a little about it and I'm amazed what happened near me and not only , aproximate 77 years ago.
2.I heard of the Holocaust in secondary school, and I'm reading now from this book.