Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Final

Jordan Wiertzema - Reflective Response Essay Final



Jordan Wiertzema
Mr.Neuburger
ENG 102 – 118
14 May 2013
Reflective Essay Final
            In ENG 102 my skills as a writer have grown throughout the semester and as a result I can now write with a higher degree of quality. The class taught me many things about academic writing and in my opinion has been the most informative English class that I have taken. An example of how this class has improved my skills as a writer includes creating a research paper, which isn’t bad when looked at from a certain perspective. Also there were many general rules to writing which have been taught that I feel will improve my writing on essays and other writing assignments in other classes in the future. Furthermore, the use of technology in the class made ENG 102 much more enjoyable. Overall the class was one of my more favorite classes that I took this semester.
            Throughout the course of the semester the class has been assigned multiple assignments each different and with a purpose to improve our writing. Everything was very easy to follow and the structure for the assignments was very clear and well laid out. The free writes that were mainly done during the beginning of the semester I thought were a good idea and I enjoyed being able to write about whatever was on our minds instead of having to respond to a prompt of some kind. The response essays to the short stories that we read in the beginning of the semester also helped to improve my skills as a writer in many ways. Learning the structure to writing a strong and short response essay was probably one of the most useful things I could take away from this class. Learning to construct a strong thesis statement and then the best ways to support that thesis statement proved invaluable information to me. I actually used the format used for the response essays in this class writing essays and answering essay questions on tests for other classes. As a result of doing so I was able to achieve nearly perfect scores on all of them, which is why I consider learning that format one of the most useful bits of information I can take away from ENG 102.
            However learning the format to a strong essay and writing in general has not been the only thing that has enlightened me. Learning how to construct and put together a research paper I believe will also prove to be another skill I will take away from this class to use in my future academic career. As I plan on eventually majoring in psychology learning how to effectively construct a research paper is actually quite important. Before this class, the thought of putting together a research paper was not a pleasant thought at all. I viewed a research paper as more complicated than it actually was. Being guided through the process the majority of the way I enjoyed because while we were being tested in our abilities as writers, the emphasis was more on learning how to put everything together correctly. This is something that I believe more classes should do. The instructor should try to focus on ensuring that the core ideas are understood and that the class as a whole walks away with a very good base of knowledge to use in the future; which I believe to be true in this particular case.
            In addition to the useful information on how to construct both research papers and write essays in general, technology helped improve the quality of my writing as well. The websites that have been shared with us over the semester have been proven to be extremely useful. One of these websites EasyBib.com showed itself to be invaluable when writing the research paper. Having the capability to produce a full and accurate works cited page easily without much input saved time and was very helpful. I plan on using the site on other projects and papers in the future. Another site using Digolet allowed me to store and organize the sources I collected when writing the research paper which was very useful. Having all my sources grouped in one location and having them organized as well made writing the research paper flow much more smoothly. Thus, technology greatly helped me to complete the assignments in this class and have been proven to be effective enough that I plan to use it in the future.
            In conclusion, this class has taught me many useful techniques in writing and has advanced my skills as a writer in my own opinion. The ways in which the class has been guided throughout the semester has helped me learn how to write effectively. One use of technology used in the class I did not like though. The technology I am referring to is Twitter, which I didn’t like very much at all. The reasoning behind using Twitter to conduct class discussions is strong, as in open class discussions only a few people may speak out. However, I did not fully understand how to use it, which may be user error but I still disliked it. Other than that I can’t think of any other thing that I disliked about this class. Overall I believe I will be walking away from ENG 102 with useful information that I can use to improve my writing in the future.

Anne DeCamillo Final

Final Exam - Zachary Eaton

Final Exam

Brittney Stewart -- Course Reflection

ReBecca Burnett - Final

English Final

Cheyenne Long- Final Response Essay

Final Essay

Jewell-Final Essay

Nicole Rippy Reflection Essay

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Landon Rice Reflective Essay

Reflection Essay

Final- Jamie Beelow

Devon Bennett Final

Alyssa Vandiver Final Essay

Final Jaymie Bush

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Final Exam Paper

Courtney Stewart Final Exam

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FINAL EXAM: REFLECTIVE ESSAY

Final Exam- Reflective Essay

Caitlin Jewell Video-basketball

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Jaymie Bush - My Heartbeats

Courtney Stewart Video

Nicole Rippy Movie

Blood Wizard


Alex Miller movie

My Family Movie- Jamie Beelow

ReBecca Burnett--Movie

My Video-Cheyenne Long

Rachel Schroff Movie

Sarah Wilkinson-Movie

Alyssa Vandiver - Movie Maker

Caitlin Jewell-Movie

Devon Bennett Movie

My Funny Bunny Movie

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Response-A Film Unfinished

Response Essay
“A Film Unfinished”
            “A Film Unfinished” is about the Warsaw ghetto. The Nazis filmed the ghetto and tried to make the life of the Jew look good. In the process of doing so they filmed what was exactly happening and the graphic mistreatment of Jews. The film was never finished and years later we found these films in a bunker in Germany. It was hard watching some of the film not so much of the violence but just the thought of people treating other people like that. I’ve seen plenty of gore and plenty of nasty cruel things out there so watching this wasn’t too bad. What was bad was knowing that it actually happened. Every time I think of the holocaust I just think, “How could this happen to such a large group of people.”
            While doing the survivor testimonies, I came across a guy who was in the Warsaw ghetto and he said this was like heaven compared to the concentration camp because he still had his family. I watched that film and although it was terrible, the treatment they received in the ghetto wasn’t nearly as bad as certain other places. They had their family with them in the ghetto which if that was me I think I’d be counting my blessings. The biggest complications in the ghetto were food and space. They fit 250,000 people into a square three miles which is just absolutely insane. I could deal with the space issues but not having enough food would be my fear and biggest problem.
            Yes a film unfinished is hard to watch but nothing compare to what was happening at Treblinka or Auschwitz. I think the most heartbreaking seen was the dead children just lying in the street. That’s what would get me if I lived in the Warsaw ghetto. Another thing that would be hard, especially as a parent would be seeing my kids hungry and withering away. Something good about the ghetto is they were able to secretly practice their religion which is everything to the Jews. There were some things not too bad about being in the ghetto but then again it’s definitely not any way someone wants to live life.

A film unfinished - response summary

In "A Film Unfinished" it shows the horrible truth about the Warsaw ghetto. This film was very disturbing to me , but at the same time I viewed it as a eye opener on what was happening during the war when the German Nazis tortured the Jewish culture. In the thirty days of filming they captured things that were going on such as people starving,children searching for ways to eat ,trash everywhere because people were just to weak to carry it ot, Jews being mistreated and filmed as if they were animals. They were also filming things that were staged and untrue for propaganda purposes. I couldnt imagine being expelled from my home and forced to find a home within the ghetto walls in 2 days not able to have all my belongings,in most cases families were to share one room and only had access to very little food. The film showed how the Jewish community just roamed the streets most of them became very weak and unhealthy in a short time due to lack of eating and hygeine. Families were torn apart as they were eventually dying off in the streets, one survivor mentioned herself as becoming "unhuman" ,she had became "indifferent of others,otherwise it would have been impossible to live." They were eventually stepping over corpses of all ages that were lying in the streets and sidewalks, watching Jews picking up other Jews throwing them in a cart and taking them to mass graves.While watching this part of the film I asked myself , How could someone just stand there and film things like this go on ? It is heartbreaking to watch, I couldnt imagine being a part of something so horrible. The staging of scenes like making Jews walk with their heads held high as if nothing was going on, the feeding them in resturaunts , even a fake funeral precession is just another horrible act. How can people be so cruel? The Holucost is a very interesting topic however after viewing this film it was put into perspective of all the torture and inhumane things those poor people had to endure during the War and the Film was a little hard to sit through and watch without tears coming to my eyes.

Devon Bennett Video Response


Class Film
The film we watched in class was a propaganda film that the Nazi party filmed to show life in the ghettos.  The film was intended to let people see just how great the ghettos were by the Nazis but they also filmed the dark side of the ghetto.  They never thought that one day people might actually see what was going on inside these ghettos and just how horrible the conditions were.  After watching this film one can only say that the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were treated as if they were the animals that the Nazis used as a joke for their entertainment. 
The conditions inside the ghetto were some of the worst things I have ever seen before.  The people were actually dead on the street and because the people were so sick themselves and starving they didn’t have the time to mourn.  The people were numb according to a lady in the film casing them to be oblivious to the pain and agony inside the camp. 
I would have to say that the Nazis were playing a huge trick on the Jews and they were just trying to create propaganda.  They would create scenes inside the camp that portrayed a group of people that were having a great time.  They showed people dinning with the best things money could buy, and living a life that was so false that even the Jews doing it had a hard time understanding.   According to the people on the film they were told if they didn’t cooperate they would be shot and killed.  They were forced to laugh and pretend that they had a great life going for them. 
The major feature in the film was the interview with the guy who was hired by the Nazis to film the ghetto.  He was asked if he knew what was going in inside the ghetto and he said that he didn’t until after.  He knew that things were not as good as the film was to portray but he couldn’t do anything or he would have been charged as well. 
The real reason that all of this was done was because the population in Germany was starting to get curious as to where all the Jews went and they wanted to know.  They were going to be shown by the Nazi party that they were fine in this ghetto living one of the best lives a person could possibly live.

A Film Unfinished. ReBecca Burnett.

          
While watching “A Film Unfinished” I found it extremely hard to watch.  This video, or should I say documentary, was shot by the infamous Nazi’s in May of 1942 in the Warsaw ghetto.  This film was never found entirely, but the footage that they have, they put together to make this video.  Because not all of the video footage was found, some of the scenes were set up and they had staged actors to play the role of the Jews.  The video, remind you that is filmed by the Nazi’s, was supposed to show the life of the Jews after they were taken from Germany.  It showed the daily life and living conditions after being rounded up and taken, but like I said they hired actors, so some of the scenes were to over dramatized.  The Nazi’s wanted to hide any sign of torture of the Jews, so they went to different lengths to cover how the Jews actually lived. 
            In the video film makers had multiple survivors sit in a theater and watch the horrible real-life documentary made by the Nazi’s.  The heartbroken survivors were in complete disbelief of how the Nazi’s portrayed how the Jews were treated and how the conditions of the ghettos were.  The survivors couldn’t believe what they were saying and how they showed life as a luxury. This was so not the case for any of the Jews, because as most of us know, life for the Jews was not an easy one.  Jews were to live in one bedroom apartment with multiple families and barely any food to eat.  Later in the video is when the rawness of the horror comes too in the Warsaw ghetto life.  Then pictures of the innocent dead bodies, garbage and the sadness upon men’s faces flash upon the screen and for me, that’s what I take away from this video, the sadness that these innocent lives had to face and the life they had live behind because.  The rawness of the footage is terrifying and heartbreaking for anyone to watch.  It shows the way the Nazi’s wanted people to view life and how life really was. (359)

A Film Unfinished - Kaitlyn Wallace

After watching the movie "An Unfinished Film" all I could think was how lucky I am to have to have the life I have to day. It is unfathomable the things they did to the Jews. How could any person become so numb that the suffering of others that they could just kill and torture people without thinking anything of it. It made me sick to my stomach to see the conditions they were forced to live in and the things that the film makers would make them do. One scene that I cannot get out of mind was when they were burying the bodies. They would just walk down the street and pick up the carcasses of everyone who had died that day and throw them onto a cart. They then took them to a massive grave and would just slide the bodies down a slide into the grave, they had at least ten to twenty people in one grave. It was hard to watch them throw around the bodies like they were nothing that the people who had died were just worthless. Another thing that stood out was the scene where they made them take the baths together and be filmed. It just seemed so cruel to make them do that and be filmed, I cannot even imagine how the camera men had to feel. I wonder if they wanted to try and help the people or if they were just as emotionless as the Germans? 

A Film Unfinished-Cheyenne Long

“A Film Unfinished” is about a German film crew that was hired to film the Warsaw Ghetto. They had decided to film the largest ghetto and show what they were like. There were more than 300,000 people into a mile and a half space. The amount of emotional and physical torture the Jews went through was tremendous. My heart aches for the people who had to endure the hatred of the Germans. The films were staged to ensure others that the camps were good not bad. There were corpses on the sidewalk; people had to ignore the suffering of others in order to live. The film crew staged a lot of what they filmed. One film maker says he saw a Jew picking up bodies and taking them to the cemetery. He saw forty to fifty bodies put into a shack, and then they were taken to this mass grave filled with layers of Jews. The bodies of the deceased look like twigs, just skin and bone. Warsaw was in very bad shape. The Jews had no clue what was to happen, exterminations were planned. The Jewish shootings lasted thirty days, many had died. People starved to death and many died from illness. The Germans were questioning what had happened to the Jews and that is where the film came from. It was a complete propaganda; they only filmed the good in the ghetto. At times the true treatment of the Jews was filmed but the plan was to edit those out. The Jews believed they were going to be sent out to a work facility.

survivor testimony 2

Anne DeCamillo Mr. Neuburger Eng. 102-120 10 March 2013 Survivor Testimony Holocaust Survivor This survivor testimony is from Eline Hoekstra Dresden she was born in Holland where she lived with her Mother and Father and four other siblings. Luckily Eline was able to finish school and get some college before the Nazis no longer allowed the Jews to go to school. Eline goes on to explain how she became pregnant and about three months after the baby was born things started to become very bad and the people in Holland were beginning to be scared. Eline decided to send her baby boy with a friend of the family where he would be safe and it was not long after that Eline was taken into a camp. Eline goes on to say how this was not a normal camp it was actually a castle where a group of educated Jews were held. She states how they did not know why they were in that group but she was glad she ended up there because it was not too bad and could have been worse. After a few months this group of Jews was taken to another camp and Eline explains how this camp was not as bad as it could have been and explained it as a prelude to the last kind of camp you can go to. Eline states “We arrived tired, scared and expecting misery”. So in regards to what it could have been she was very pleased in the way it turned out. Eline explains she doesn’t exactly know how she survived but she explains that she did little sneaky things that she got away with which made her feel empowered and that empowerment gave her the survival instinct she needed to do just enough to survive. Eline explains a lot of work that she did in the camp and explains how she worked in the fields and a lot of the Jews would collapse because they were so weak. Eline explains how one time the Jews were called together because someone stole. The person who had stole came forward only because they knew they would be punished collectively and everything would be taken away and the workload would be even harder. Eline had come forward and also told how she had taken two loafs of bread as well and to her surprise she wasn’t beat and was only told to do a chore that wasn’t worse then any other chore they had done. Eline explains how she was very lucky and did not know how she got away with as much as she did. In conclusion Eline was in the camp until the end of the war. She found out that her brother had survived and her sister as well, the son she sent away to be safe was also indeed safe and luckily Eline and her husband survived through these tragic times. Eline seen a lot of horrible things which caused her very much turmoil through out her life However she expresses Gratitude that she survive

survivor testimony 1

Anne DeCamillo Mr.Neuburer Eng. 102-120 March 11, 2013 Essay Response Survivor Testimony In this interview Gustav Goldberg interviews holocaust survivor Hans Werner Levy Known now by Henry Laurant.Laurant was born May 28, 1924 in Koenigsberg Germany.Laurant had an older sister growing up and does recall his life before the war and before the persecution of Jewish families.Laurant’s father was a medical doctor and had his own medical practice so growing up Laurant’s family was well off financially. Laurant reflects on the first time he encountered anti-semitism and refers to the age of about five years old, when he was walking down the street and a group of German children started yelling things at him and calling him bad names. At the time Laurant was confused and Quotes that “he was terrified and confused thinking they had the wrong kid.” Laurant goes on to explain how eventually after his father had his own medical practice for nearly 20 years and eventually lost it due to the german’s, however, at this time there were no restrictions on career fields for the Jewish. So at this time Laurant and his family moved to Berlin where his father changed career fields and started doing Psychoanalyst. The family was excited to get out of the town they were residing in and to start a new school and to be unknown was a good thing at this time and it was approximately 1936. Laurant explains how his mother and father were non religious and did not practice the religion as many other families they knew did. But for Laurant he wanted to partake in many of the traditions and his family supported him. For example Laurant explains how he had a formal celebration for his Bar mitzvah. And how he introduced many things to his family such as the Friday night dinner and prayer in which his family partook with him as well.But none the less he explains his parents as being non religious. Laurant also goes in to explain how all of the changes in Germany and the surrounding areas were very gradual. Although, after the Olympics 1938. That’s when things really started to change. Laurant goes into a story in which This man goes to the Nazi party offices after hearing of the death of his parents and finds the highest ranked person and killed him then turns himself into the police. Well the Germans used this in their propaganda against the jews and shortly after is Nov. 10th the night of kristalnacht. Laurant remembers leaving their home to hide out and luckily no one came to where they were staying . As time goes on and things start to become worse Laurants father finds a way to send him to England So Laurant is sent away to safety and the impression that the separation between him and his family is temporary stays with him until the war hits because until then he was able to keep in touch with his family on a regular but after the war started it became more difficult. Laurant later learns of the fate of his sister and then the fate of his parents. In 1971 Laurant returns to Berlin and is given the documentation of his mother and fathers arrest in which Laurant finds out his parents were sent to Auswich. Later Laurant moves to America where he married and remarried a few times and explains the guilt he feels as a survivor and the guilt he feels for leaving his parents but in reality there was nothing he could do.

A Film Unfinished - Zach Eaton


            The documentary, “A Film Unfinished” is about a German film crew hired to capture the Warsaw Ghetto in its prime. The Warsaw Ghetto was the biggest ghetto during the Holocaust. It packed more than 350,000 people into a mile and a half space. The films were uncovered many years after the holocaust had concluded. A reporter found them in an archives section. German military were using the films as propaganda to German civilians, capturing images of Jewish people playing soccer, images of them dancing, images of Jewish people that were not malnourished. The scenes were staged so that people couldn’t see exactly how the Jews were being treated. They wanted German people to think that the Jewish people were perfectly fine and had decent living quarters. This was not the case in fact.
            Images of what really was going on were uncovered throughout the films. Having so many people squeezed into such a little space was unthinkable. Jewish people were being starved to death. Corpses were everywhere. You could find dead people on sidewalks, just lying on the ground, and others had to just live with it. They would be carted off sooner or later and buried in a mass grave. Many Jews were so under fed and so weak that they would just sit against walls or just lay around, more than likely passing away not to long after. German soldiers would ridicule and torture Jewish people. They had no respect for the living or the dead. They were strictly there to make sure that Jewish people had no way of a decent life and to try and make their life a living hell. Conditions were indescribable, and the film makers captured most of it. The film “ A Film Unfinished” showed everyone the reality and severity the Jewish people were put through and had to endure on a daily basis.  

Monday, March 25, 2013

A Film Unfinished-Caitlin Jewell

Caitlin Jewell

Comp. 102-118

Mr. Neuburger

25 March 2013

Summary
 
"A Flim Unfinished"
 

     "A Film Unfinished" is a movie about how historians uncovered footage that had been filmed over

 the course of the Holocaust in a ghetto. The ghetto that was filmed was the largest, it was called the

Warsaw Ghetto. While first watching these films people would think that this ghetto was full of

happiness. Commonly watching people dancing and going to different shows and activities didn't

make it look so bad. In reality the Jews were in high numbers around 350,000 in just a 1.5 mile span

and constantly were stepping over each other and crammed too tight in the small space provided.

Later in the film you were able to see Nazis doing different takes and camera angles, which meant the

 filmings were being staged to look good to the eye. Jews were being beaten, starved and many died

 and just layed in the streets. Only the rich were able to buy good food such as meats and breads, but

that was only a handful of about 20 people. The camera men actually didn't know why they were

filming these events, they just did as they were told. They caught on film, some of the worst acts in

history.

A Film Unfinished (Video Response) - Jordan Wiertzema



In “A Film Unfinished” the lives of the Jewish population in the Warsaw Ghetto were revealed through a German film crew. The film was supposedly taken for propaganda purposes to be shown to the German people during World War II. The footage in the movie was forgotten but eventually found in German archives later. Many of the scenes were staged and the German film crew was very particular about choosing certain Jews to be actors and actresses in their scenes. They wanted to only show those who seemed to be doing well in life or those that weren’t dying of starvation. Their purpose was to show the German people where the Jews had gone and that they were living a decent and lavish lifestyle. This was not the case however for the majority of those living in the ghetto. At its height, the ghetto reached around 500,00 people packed into an extremely small area which was walled in and cut off from the rest of the city.
            The conditions were horrible in the film and revealed what life was actually like. There would be corpses that would be laid on the street and then carried off on carts to be buried in a mass grave. Those who were suffering from starvation would be seen laying on the ground or propped up against walls too tired to move. Many gave up hope and the despair could be seen on the faces of those Jews which appeared in the film. Some believed that their stay in the ghetto was only temporary. They had no idea that courses of action had been set in motion that would liquidate the ghetto in time. In the end, “A Film Unfinished” was able to reveal the true story of what life was like in the ghetto.

Warsaw Ghetto Video Response


Watching the video on the Warsaw Ghetto was very disturbing. The video was made to show what the Germans wanted people think the Jews went through on a day to day basis in the ghetto, but in reality, it was much worse. They staged many scenes with the Jews acting more content and comfortable in their environment than they were sure to be. The film makers would have many takes of scene to try and make it look as realistic as they could. They even filmed the Jews walking down the streets who seemed not to care at all that they were walking over and around dead bodies; they were everywhere. It is impossible to watch something like that and not feel completely sick at your stomach. From shootings to starving, people were dying so rapidly that it was unreal. There was no food to spare, no nourishment at all. These people were so thin that they looked like they could just fall over any minute, and so many of them did. When the Germans finally removed the deceased bodies from the streets, they would carelessly pick them up and throw them in to a wooden box. The Germans took mass amounts of dead bodies to a big “grave” and just dumped the corpses on top of each other, piling with no limits. Each of these bodies was like skin and bones, nothing to them. Staging scenes throughout the ghetto was simply a way for the Germans to cover up evidence of all that was going on behind the scenes. I cannot even begin to imagine how the Jews living in the ghetto felt. The fact that one human could even do these things to another is so sickening. The video definitely opened my eyes even more to what ghettos in the holocaust were like. I cannot even begin to imagine being one of the survivors and looking back on these videos.

"A Film Unfinsihed" - Alyssa Vandiver


Alyssa Vandiver

ENG Comp 101-135

Mr. Neuburger

25 March 2013

Essay

“A Film Unfinished”

“A Film Unfinished” is a moving documentary about the Nazis staging the Jewish people in different scenes in the Ghetto to be used for propaganda. The films were taken during WWII in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Ghetto built by the Nazis. There were over 400,000 Jews in a 1.3 square mile radius. For a long time the films were just thought as documentation and no one knew that the films were staged. It wasn’t until recently that a film that was unfinished had showed the Nazi soldiers filming and doing re-takes was discovered. The Nazis filmed these to prove that the Ghetto wasn’t a bad thing; they were used as propaganda to show that the Ghetto life wasn’t bad. They showed the Jews dancing, playing games, talking, and going about their days. They made the films look as realistic as possible. In one scene they even fired gun shots in to the air to cause panic. They would do as many retakes as possible to make the scene seem as real as possible. They would shoot from different angles over and over again. The retakes showed that everything was staged and unreal. The Nazis made the Ghetto look like a nice place for the Jews when in reality they were so cramped they had to step over dead bodies just walking down the streets. The Nazis were starving the Jews in the Ghetto. They were so cramped that there was nowhere for people to walk without being next to someone else. The films showed the Jews happy when they were actually starving, scared, and cramped. After the Nazis were finished with the Jews in the Ghetto they were sent to concentration camps where many died. When the film with all the retakes was finally found it had shown what life was actually like for the Jewish people in the community, it also proved how far the Nazis would go to change the minds of others to make what they were doing seem ethical and to get the country to stand behind them.

Warsaw Ghetto Video Response Landon Rice


Landon Rice
Mr. Nueburger
Composition II
March 24, 2013
Warsaw Ghetto
            The video was about the life of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.  The video was made by the Nazi’s to show Germans what was happening to all the Jews.  The Nazi’s staged most of the scenes of the movie because it was meant to depict the life of the Jews in a good light. They also hired actors to do this. The Nazi’s also filmed the real life of the Jews, but of course that was edited out of the video.  The lifestyles of the Jews were nowhere near what was shown in the video.  The survivors of the holocaust watched the movie and showed their reaction.  It was very emotional for them because they had to see the bodies of Jews that littered the streets.  These people all died from starvation because they were not given enough food to live.  It must have been very hard for these people to come back and relive what they try to forget about.
            While watching this video, I tried to put myself in the shoes of the Jews but I can’t even begin to comprehend anything that they went through.  I do not understand how the Nazi’s thought Jewish people were the cause of their problems, or why they took it as far as they did.  I also don’t understand how none of the Nazi’s thought they were doing was wrong.  One soldier threw a body in the trash as if it was nothing.