Hello Everybody!
Hope everyone is doing well. How's it going with the book so far? My class (or most of them) have read through Ch. 6, where Max's family was sent to the Szaszregen Ghetto. I think a good place to start our discussion would be to think about the following questions:
- Describe Max's relationship with friends and neighbors in Targu Lapus before 1933.
- What overall points should the reader gain after reading about Max's family and town?
I'm always impacted by Max telling about how relationships with his friends began to change and his family finally decided to leave Targu Lapus. He talks about how his family never believed that what they were hearing about in places like Poland would happen in their town. What are your thoughts on this?
To the students in Targu Lapus, I'm really curious about the following things:
1. How familiar are you with stories about the Jewish community in Targu Lapus before WWII?
2. Had you ever heard of the Szaszregen (Reghin) Ghetto? A large number of Max's extended
family stayed in Targu Lapus. Have you ever heard stories of what happened to the Jews in
Targu Lapus?
I can't wait to hear all of your thoughts! Also, my class will be posting a picture soon. Please take one of your class and post! :)
More later!!
Ms. McDonald
Max and his neighbors/friends lived their daily lives together as normal people. He walked to school with his friends and played many sports with them.
ReplyDeleteThe reader should understand how regular people were, and how they were treated as such before the restrictions started
Intrested in the book.and wondering what else we will do.
ReplyDeleteMax lost most of his friends and where sent to the ghettos
ReplyDeleteBefore 1933, Max's community helped and supported each other.
ReplyDeleteIt shows the reader how different it was after 1933,when friends and neighbors turned on eachother.
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ReplyDeleteMax had a normal life, where he played with his friends, went to school, and played soccer.
ReplyDeleteThe reader should be able to observe the tragic and drastic change in regular Jewish families' lives after Nazi takeover by observing their lives before.
1. Max had a normal life before it.
ReplyDelete2. To see what they went through.
He had a good relationship with them, he use to have them over for dinner.
ReplyDeletePeople should know that before 1933 they were treated as friends/family and how quickly they were turned on after 1933
1.They lived happy and went anywhere walking down to school and their relationship.
ReplyDelete2.That during 1933 they still had a lived good and also that nothing bad was happening
1. Max's relationship with his friends were normal, they played sports, and walked home together. No one had discriminated him nor his family yet.
ReplyDelete2. The reader should gain from this is that the Nazi government had impacted people from all ages and that even the people they didn't expect could have the same judgement as those apart of the Nazi regime.
1. They lived a normal life before it happened.
ReplyDelete2. It was showing the difference before and after. Before they were living a happy normal life til after 1949 things got worse
Before 1933, Max and his family had normal relationships with the neighbors and friend. They played together and supported eachother like friends. But eventually, things started to change for them. They got beaten up, ignored, and called names by the same people who were once their friends. Max and his family never thought something like what happened in Poland will happen to them because they had a friendly relationship with the people that lived there.
ReplyDelete1 im not very familiar with it but they live a normal life before it happened
ReplyDelete2 yes I have from the book that we are reading in your Miss. McDonald
Max and his family were living a normal life just like any other family and had friends that max and his family got along with.
ReplyDeleteThe reader should observe how fast his “friends” changed with them and how bad their “friends” treated max and his family.
Actually I'm not familiar with it but Max and his family were average people, living a normal life before things started to take a bad turn.
ReplyDeleteHello!
DeleteThanks for your response! Why did things start to take a bad turn?
1.Max's relationship with friends and neighbors is this:"The neighbors on both sides of us were good friends amongst themselves and good friends with us.The parents , as well as children , were friends" before 1933.
ReplyDelete2.The Nazi regime what changed the atitude of the people to the Jews.
The united his family "The 30 to 40 family members would gather at tables which zigzagged from room to room" . When "Joseph and Ilona dedided to move to the city of Szaszregen[...]because Ilona had a sister there"
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DeleteThank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. :)
Hello everyone!Here are my answers:
ReplyDelete1.Honestly, I knew that there was a jewish community in Targu Lapus but I've never heard stories about it or about holocaust survivors from our town.
2. I heard about the Reghin Ghetto when I watched a documentary about holocaust survivors from eastern europe .Unfortunately, I have never heard about what happened to the jews in our town until our teacher,Ms. Ciupe,told us but I'm really grateful to you because you opened our eyes so an atrocity like this will never happen again.
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DeleteThank you so much for your response! Have you ever heard a Holocaust survivor speak or met a survivor? What type of documentary did you watch? Did it explain what happened to the Jews in Transylvania?
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ReplyDelete1. I know that there was a Jewish community in Targu Lapus, but I don't know much about this community.
2. I haven't heard of the Reghin Ghetto, but I heard that the Jews from Romania were sent to other countries with some freight trains in which many died on the way.
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DeleteThank you for your response! Tell me more about what you heard or learned about the freight trains. Where were they going?
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ReplyDelete1. My father told me that there was a Jewish community in Targu Lapus, but he doesn't know much either.
2. Because my grandfather made me curious about what happened in the past, I looked at a lot of documentaries, but I haven't heard of the Reghin Ghetto.
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DeleteThanks so much for your response! How did your grandfather make you curious about the past? We can learn so much from talking with older people. What types of documentaries have you seen?
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ReplyDelete1.I have heard from my grandmother about the jewish community from Targu Lapus. She told me that the leader of the jews was David Fridlander and in 1930 in Targu Lapus were approximate 700 jews .I would like to find more .
2.I haven't heard about the Reghin Gehtto but I've heard about Sobibor where jews were exterminated and based on that extermination place, a movie was made .It's called "Escape from Sobibor."
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DeleteThank you for your response. I will ask Max about David Friedlander. Have you seen the movie about Sobibor? Is that how you found out about this place?
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ReplyDelete1.I know there was a Jewish community in Targu Lapus. My mother told me a few things about that community, but she did not know too much, for example, she told me that during the interwar period, there was a large Jewish community.
2.I read about the Reghin Ghetto, the people were huddled in two rooms, without clothes, without bedding and without food. They were beaten to expose the richer jews.
Hi! Thank you for taking the time to respond.Your mom is right... there was a fairly large Jewish community there. Where did you read about the Reghin Ghetto?
DeleteHello!
ReplyDelete1. My grandfather told me that there was a Jewish community in Târgu Lăpuș, but unfortunately he too doesn't know too much about this community.
2. I haven't heard of the Reghin Ghetto, but I know the Jews were the victims of the historical environment in which they lived.
Hi/Salut! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your response! About how old is your grandfather?