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.

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.

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.

Another thing that is sad is that even though people say “Never Again,” genocides are still happening around the world.

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

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.

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.

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

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!!!!