Tell me about what you learned from Ms. Cooke.
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Tell me about what you learned from Ms. Cooke.
May 13th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Thank you Mrs. Cooke for teaching us about the Holocaust.
When you showed us what it was like for the Jews to to be squeezed into the little cars, I could feel the pain that the Jews were feeling. I was especially touched by the story of the loaf of bread that was thrown into the little car, and the man that caught it was being hit by a lot of people. What shocked me was that his own son was hitting him and when he told his son that they were going to share the loaf of bread, the son just kept hitting him until he dropped the loaf of bread.
What Hitler did to the Jews was terrible and mean. Hitler called the Jews less than human just because most of them had dark hair, dark eyes, or dark skin. Hitler wanted to keep people who had blond hair, blue eyes, and fair skin.
I never knew that Hitler had a youth group. Hitler deluded children to do some things that people usually wouldn’t do. If people said something that made Hitler sound bad or made the Jews sound good, the child from the youth group would report that person even if that person was their friend or their family. Hitler’s paradigm became the youth group’s paradigm. I don’t think that many thought about what they were listening to on the radio. They didn’t think that Hitler was doing anything bad. They were brainwashed to think that he was a great man.
I think that knowing about the Holocaust will help me in life because by knowing this and how it all started, I can make sure that it won’t ever happen again.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
When Mrs. Cooke was our substitute, I had fun and I really learned a lot of things. She told us about the Holocaust and how horrible it was for the Jews, Gypsies and any other dark-skinned people in Germany. I learned that when the Jews were captured (women, children and men), they were put on trains and stuffed to the max. They were packed in these cattle carts with a bucket for a toilet, and from there they were taken to the concentration camps where most were killed instantly. Mrs. Cooke told us that the people who weren’t killed instantly were either worked to death, got beaten, or shot for fun by the Nazis.
To survive, some people were so desperate that they spent days in a toilet full of urine and feces. I feel so bad for the six million Jews (or more) that died in World War II because of Hitler. Mrs. Cooke told us about how Hitler made a death penalty for anyone found protecting a Jew, but some people still helped the Jews. Hitler tried to commit genocide against the Jews, he totally brainwashed the Nazis into think that killing the Jews was good.
I wish that we could have learned more from you, but thank you for teaching us about the Holocaust for one day.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Ms. Cooke taught us so much about the Holocaust that I don’t know what to say about the lesson. She tied in her own personal feelings while not letting them affect the way she taught us. She gave us good references where we could get sources about the Holocaust that could give us some different views about the concentration camps. She made us pretend that we were the Jews going to or were at the concentration camps. She narrated what happened and if one of us died we would sit in our seat. All of us, but one had to sit down. This was a way for us to experience how many people died.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Thank you so much for coming to substitute for us. I really learned a lot and got interested in the Holocaust. When you talked to us about the Holocaust, it really opened my eyes to what really happened. I knew the Holocaust was bad, but I had never gotten the detailed information about how they were killed in the gas chamber, and the way they were packed in the cattle cars. It was disgusting. When you told us the story of the boy who beat his father along with the rest of the people in the cattle car for a loaf of bread, I thought about how lucky we are to have food to eat 3 times a day. You would have to be pretty desparate to beat your dad for food. I am really interested in the Holocaust and will probably read your book recommendations.
Thank you again.
Maile
May 14th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Thank you for coming and teaching us about the Holocaust. I learned that some people hid their children under their mattresses, and some people even gave their child to another family to protect and watch them during the war. But it must have been hard to find someone to take tour kid because if you got caught then you suffered the death penalty.
I also learned that people were so narrow-minded right before the Holocaust because they only saw what was good for them, like money. They weren’t seeing what was happening to the other people around them. But if they had noticed what was happening to the other people, even the kids, then maybe less people would have died.
Mahalo, Ms.Cooke for coming and teaching us about the Holocaust. I enjoyed it because I went to the Holocaust Museum and lots of things that didn’t make sense when I went then, I understand a lot more.
Thank you for coming!
May 14th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I would like to thank Mrs. Cooke for teaching us on 5/13/09. I learned a lot about the holocaust. I knew Adolf Hitler killed and tortured many people, not just Jews, but gypsies, any black person, a person with black eyes or dark hair, and anyone who disagreed or tried to save someone. When you told me that everybody on the island multiplied by six was how many Jews Hitler killed, I thought that wasn’t right. I didn’t know how some Jews escaped. For example, they had to hide behind bookshelves and other furniture. I learned from Mrs. Cooke that Jews were transported in cattle cars, and how cruel it was. For example, if they got bread, they would fight to get the bread just to survive. Again, I would like to thank Mrs. Cooke again for teaching us on 5/13/09.
May 14th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Thank you, Mrs. Cooke for the great lesson on the Holocaust. It was cool how you let us become part of the lesson. It really helped me to see how it must have been like to be in a cattle car. I didn’t know about the cattle car before. It was really sad learning about how people thought that Hitler was doing the right thing, like they had blinders on. ¾ of the Jews died. Hitler was a Jew. He thought that the Jews were the reason why German people were poor and were losing their jobs. It was not fair for the Jews. I wish there was time to learn more. Thank you for the lesson!
May 14th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Thank you so much, Ms. Cooke for teaching us about the Holocaust. I knew some things about the Holocaust, but you really put it in detail. Like anyone who had dark eyes, hair, or a dark skin color, Hitler would consider you impure and take you to an internment camp. Also anyone who disagreed with him would be shot on the spot. If you were hiding people, everyone who was related to you would be shot as well as you. You also gave an example on how many Jews died once they got to internment camp. 3/4 of them died immediately and where there’s 5 people, 3 of them would die. I also got a good idea of how many people got killed when you said that about Hawaii’s population times six represents the people that got killed.
Thank you sooooo much for teaching us
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May 14th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
I thank Mrs. Cooke for teaching us a lot about the Holocaust. I didn’t know that Hitler ordered to kill the Gypsies, too. I hope no one in the future has the same kind of sick and twisted mind that Hitler had.
One boy was so desperate he hid neck-high in feces and urine for 2 whole days and nights in fear of dying. I wouldn’t be afraid of dying or be that desperate if I knew I was going to die. So Hitler was German and Jewish, but he wanted to kill the Jews anyway (really messed up). Did you know that the Jews lost their names and were called a number like 110855, and that the Jewish people had to wear a golden star and if they went outside of their house without it, they were killed?
May 14th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Thank you Mrs. Cooke for teaching us about the Holocaust.
I thought I knew about the Holocaust but you taught us so much more that we didn’t know. I liked you because you showed us how it felt to be gathered in a car all smushed together. You showed us what would happen if you were a kid in a concentration camp, and how 3 out of 4 children died during the war. Your stories were even more sad because it happened to your family. I also learned that if you multiplied Hawaii by 6 times or more, that is about how many people were killed by the Nazi rule. The stories that were most interesting was when the little boy was so scared of dying he hid in human waste for 2 days. And the other story was the one where bread was thrown in the train car, and a dad caught it. The others in the car beating him up, including his own son. It was amazing to me how much Hitler brainwashed the German kids that they would turn in their own parents for saying Hitler is bad. I still can not believe how mean the Nazis were but it is good for us to learn this so it would never happen again. I hope no one ever will have a sick, twisted mind like Hitler.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Dear Mrs. Cooke thank you for teaching us about the Holocaust. I thought that the subject was very intriguing.
I really liked the way you gave examples for us to actually see how it was for the Jews, like when you counted numbers for each of us and told us about who died. Only one person out of the group was not killed, the rest were dead, or we didn’t know what happened to the person. Another example was when you made us all stand close together like we were in a cart. We were squished, and I wouldn’t want to stay there just for an hour while they had to stay there for days. Some people were so hungry they would beat their own friends and family.
Another thing I learned was that Hitler had a youth group. One of the stories that came up was that a boy was so brainwashed by Hitler, that when he overheard his father saying that Hitler is bad, the kid actually turned his own father in to get arrested. In his youth group, they said Jews were bad and that Germans were the superior race.
When Jewish people went to the concentration camps, they lost their identity. They had no name. All they were called by was their tattoo number on the bottom of their forearm, how cruel.
May 15th, 2009 at 7:27 am
When Mrs. Cooke came to our class, I learned more about the Holocaust. I was very sad when Mrs.Cooke told us the story about her uncle and how he fled to America. But when he went back to Germany to get his family, he got beaten, hit and then hung because he fled to America. The German soldiers that brought him back to his doorstep of his house said that he got killed accidentally.
We also learned about the Jewish children that went to the concentration camps. When the children were going to the concentration camps, they were loaded onto animal carriages. But if they were stubborn and didn’t want to go, then the German soldiers would grab them by their leg, arms, and sometimes if they were girls, they would carry them by their pigtails. It was awful!!!!!!! I also learned that when they reached the concentration camps, a lot of the children got killed right away, either in gas chambers, or sometimes children would already be dead because of the long ride. If any children were left at the end of the war, they were free to go, but sometimes they couldn’t find their parents because they already died from the concentration camp.
Thank you Mrs.Cooke for everything you have taught us. I learned so much from you. See you next year!!!!
May 15th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Thank you for being our sub, Mrs.Cooke. You helped a lot with our history. I think that a majority of our class would say that history is there favorite subject. What a coincidence that you would teach our favorite subject to us. I would rather do social studies instead of math, even though math is one of my best subject. I learned a lot. One thing that caught my mind was when you wanted to talk about the Holocaust. I love learning about the Holocaust even though it was a very sad moment in history. What was really good was you teaching us in a German perspective.
What I learned from you was that when people were in the gas chambers, Hitler decided that he would put windows so that people could watch people dying from the gas. I think is not right, it’s cruel. Another thing you taught us was that people would take Jewish children and pretend that he or she was their child. I think that it was great that Christian families would put them in danger to save a Jewish children. The last thing I learned from you was that children would hide in bookshelves or closets from the Germans. I can’t believe that the Germans didn’t find the children, maybe they didn’t have time to search every inch of the house.
Thank you for being our sub, Mrs.Cooke! Taylor
May 15th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Hi, Mrs. Cooke, it’s me Keale from 204 I just wanted to tell you how much I learned about the Holocaust from you. One thing I learned from you is that sometimes people go to desperate measures to survive such as that boy who stayed neck deep in human waste for 2 days straight. Another thing I learned is that more than 6,000,000 people died in the Holocaust. I thought only 6,000,000 people died in the whole war from all nationalities.
Some of the most interesting things I learned are listed here. One of the interesting things I learned is that any German that disagreed with Hitler were sometimes turned in by their own children to the Nazi’s. Most times, the person was executed. Another thing I learned is that some German soldiers didn’t agree with Hitler.
Well, mahalo for coming, and A-l-o-h-a.
May 15th, 2009 at 7:36 am
From Mrs. Cooke, I learned about the Holocaust. I learned that her family were in the Holocaust.
I learned that the Jewish people of the same gender would be locked in a gas chamber and told they were going to take a shower, but poison was put in there and the door was locked so people on the outside would not die from it. The Germans who had to put the poison in the chamber had to wear gas masks because it was that deadly. They let people look at the Jewish people die through a window. This was done in concentration camps. The Germans who guarded the camps sometimes told the women to hold up their infant babies above their heads or give it to them, and they would then kill the baby.
The weak got killed first, and people would work out to keep in shape. Others would bite their lip and use the blood to rub it onto their cheeks o make them have color on their face. One boy was ordered to die but he hid in the toilets that was just a board with holes in it. He stayed there neck high until he died in there. Some people were desperate to live and tried to buy time to live.
But the ride there was bad too. Germans made their passengers stand up all squished, and give them things to eat only sometimes. You would be considered lucky to have food. If a person dies on the cattle car, he or she was sometimes taken out of the train but sometimes the person was left there. When they got to the camps, they had to use the clothes of the people who died before them.
May 15th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Thank you very much for teaching our class about the Holocaust. I very much enjoyed the time you spent with our class. What I didn’t know about the Holocaust before you taught us was that the Jews were all packed into small cattle cars. It was so packed that they all had to take turns sitting down. One thing about it that I thought was very sad was that there were also very sick people in the cart. When they got the chance to stop, they would just leave the dead bodies on the ground. What was really sad was that there was not just one body, but many.
What I thought was very interesting was that when you shared the story about when the boy was beating his father for a piece of bread. I found that interesting because the boy’s father had said “son, stop, I got the bread for both of us,” but the boy kept beating him. Another story I thought was interesting was when the little boy climbed in a hole where the people at the concentration camps used the bathroom and because he did not want to be killed, he stayed there and was covered in feces and urine neck high. If I was in that situation, I would not have climbed inside that hole. I would hide somewhere else.
Once again thank you for watching and teaching our class!
Mahalo,
Amylyn
May 15th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I learned a lot from Ms. Cooke. We learned about the Holocaust. I love how she used us as examples. She got the whole class to bunch up in a small part of the room and said that is how it would feel on the cattle cars. I feel bad
for the Jews. One thing I thought was scary is that people’s mind changed:(. For example, Ms. Cooke told us how a boy was beating his father for bread even though the dad said he would share.
Another thing that is sad
is that even though people say “Never Again,” genocides are still happening around the world. 
May 15th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Dear Mrs. Cooke,
I learned lots about the Holocaust. I didn’t know that you were German. I also didn’t know lots of kids died in World War II, and Hitler wrote his plan to take over Europe in his journal. Oh my gosh, I can’t believe in World War II over 6,000,000 Jews died. I’m so sorry that your uncle got tortured and got hung, and I’m also sorry for your brother that went to go see your uncle and got shot. I couldn’t believe that the Jews fought for bread in the cattle cars. I can’t believe the little boy was abusing his own dad just for bread. If I were that boy, I would fell guilty. The Nazis were nasty people. They would open a window so people could watch the Jews die in the gas chambers. I could feel the fear of trying to survive. I wouldn’t bite my lips and smear blood on my face just to have color. I think I would just die.
May 17th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Ms. Cooke taught us so much about World War Two that I can’t even believed it happened! Some of the Jews were so scared that they hid for days in a toilet, hoping that a German solder wouldn’t find them! Even when they got out, there was no escaping if you were in a concentration camp. Even if you survived a concentration camp somehow, then you would have no life. Your parents would probably be dead! Where would you go? You couldn’t go back to Germany or you would have to face more pain. You couldn’t go to Russia because they didn’t want you either!
I can’t even imagine how much pain I would have been in if I was a Jew during World War II. The main cause of all this was Hitler! He just decided to start a genocide against the Jews because he thought that they were dirty and worthless, and then suddenly everybody started to believe him! What’s even worse is that the Germans were so deluded in killing the Jews that there would be regular everyday German citizens watching the Jews be tortured and killed in the concentration camps.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Mrs. Cooke is the best. She taught me how to be a better student. I hope she knows that I love her.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Wow, Mrs.Cooke taught us so much! When I first learned about the Holocaust, I felt really sorry for the Jews and only the Jews. I didn’t know that people who just stood up for their rights got put to death. There were people who wanted to save the Jews even though they knew that they were risking their families lives, but still did it! I thought that the Germans that saved or tried to save the Jews would just get punished and that only the Jews would get put into the concentration camps.
When Mrs.Cooke made us go into the little spot and told Nainoa to “die,” we hardly had room and when she told us that that was how the Jews felt, I felt very very sorry for the Jews.
I can’t imagine living life like that, and now I know why the Jews don’t want to be pushed down and killed off again because if it happened again, the Jewish population would probably be wiped out. But I can’t understand why they are basically doing the same thing to the Palestinians.