Final

English 102

Research Paper

The Holocaust

Digital Story - Cassie Brasher

Harrison Bergeron

Harrison Bergeron1

Holocaust Survivor Testimony 2

Brigitte Aldman was from Memel in the Baltic Coast. The first signs she saw after Hitler’s coming to power were that German girls at school no longer wanted to sit with Jewish girls and even teachers became unfriendly with them. Almans father built a big container for their family to live in to keep them safe, but it ended up being burnt down. Later her family missed the chance to move to Canada because her mom was sick and couldn’t make the trip, but they were safe for a while in the United Kingdoms. There they heard rumors of Jewish slave and death camps. Aldman and her family eventually were sent to a ghetto. She explained that even before the ghetto, Jews were forced to wear the Jewish star and not even allowed to walk on sidewalks. She described the ghetto having no sanitation. Usually a family would have one room to live in. They depended on strangers for a while until her dad found some attic space in a farm house they could use. All they had in there was a bed for her parents, a cot for Brigitte, and a sewing machine. Aldman remembered one day 10,000 people were taken and never seen again, and later everyone was supposed to be inspected by an SS officer. An SS Sargent chose whether people would continue to live or die. Aldman said, “He yielded enormous power despite the low rank that he carried…power over life and death.” They all passed and went to the living side, but a little while later her mother died. She had been sick and malnourished for a while. Aldman knew it was coming, “Every day we went to work we had to leave her at home not knowing whether we would find her or we would find her alive,” she said. Eventually Aldmans father got her a job as a maid in a German household. One day a lady asked where these Germans got their maid. They were worried that people would find out she was Jewish and take her so they moved to a farm far from the capital. This job as a maid allowed her to survive. Her only consequence of surviving that she talks about was losing her mother.

Holocaust Survivor Testimony

Alfred Caro was from Sampter, Germany. His family were very proud Germans and his father even fought for Germany in WWI. Caro mentioned that before the nazis, Germans and Jews got along just fine. He even had German friends. Inflation and other economic problems after WWI caused people to start blaming each other for problems. The Nazis put the blame on the Jews. In April of 1933 the Nuremberg laws were made and life for the Jews completely changed. These laws took away all of their rights.Caro says, "From these days on we weren't people anymore." Alfred Caro was taken to a concentration camp called Saxenhoussen in June of 1938. He says that they had nothing and "If you are alive you are lucky." Caro described how people were shot if they crossed the line of the camp even if they just stepped over because they were dizzy. He mentioned that they had water for breakfast, "water soup" for lunch, and a piece of bread for dinner. Everyone thought that this treatment was temporary and that they would be moved somewhere where they could actually live a real life again. Caro was only in Saxenhoussen for about 6 weeks. His mother was constantly asking around and trying to figure out why they were being kept there. She eventually talked to a Nazi that used to be a friend of theres, then a couple of days later they signed a paper and a police officer told them they were free. After he got out he moved to Berlin and had to say goodbye to his family. Saying goodbye to them was his consequence of surviving.

A Film Unfinished - Cassie Brasher

A film unfinished really showed how evil humans can be. It was very disturbing how the Germans treated these people. It’s shocking how mean people can be and that no one did anything to stop these things. I’m sure most of the Germans knew what they were doing wasn’t right, but they didn’t fight their orders. Seeing small children with legs of flesh and bones was very depressing. Kids should be able to play and have fun, not worry if they’ll ever eat again. It made me very mad when the film showed guards stopping kids from smuggling food back to their starving families. If these guards knew the situation in the ghettos they should have pretended not to notice the food in their clothes. Another thing that really made me mad is that they made the Jews stage a fake funeral while they had corpses all over the streets. They tried to make it look like things were ok for the Jews and that they were heartless by showing them not look at corpses while they walked passed them. Of course they couldn’t look at the dead bodies of these people. They had to keep hoping that they had a chance to survive which is hard to do looking at the dead body of someone you may have known and have things in common with. It showed scenes of nicer looking more well fed Jews next to starving raggedy looking Jews. You can tell the nicer looking one was told to look like a snob towards the raggedy one, but you could see in her eyes that she understood her and didn’t blame her for looking how she did. It makes me sick that people can do this kind of thing to other people and I hope nothing like this ever happens again.

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Dumpster Diving Thesis

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I Am From

I am From

Cassie Brasher - I Am From

I am From

Cassie Brasher - I Am From

I am From

My name is Cassie Brasher. I am 20 years old. I have lived in Springfield my whole life and am working on my associate of arts degree right now. I am a sophomore this year working on general education. I plan to go to MSU afterward for fashion design. I like to sew and make clothing and other things. I have some purses that I've made selling at Vintage Vice downtown. I don't think I'll really find a job in fashion design after I graduate, so I'm planning on probably getting more stores like Vintage Vice to carry things that I've made.

I am married and have a 14 month old boy named Eden. I work part time at the deli in Wal-mart, but get almost enough hours to be full time. I took a couple of classes this summer so I would have less this semester and it would be easier to juggle work, school, and a baby. I've never really thought of myself as a good writer. I've always done ok in school, but I've never really liked writing stories or essays very much and I don't really know what to write about right now. My favorite color is purple. My favorite kind of food is barbecue (my husband makes the best burgers). My favorite animal is a turtle. I hope this is an effective introduction. If you have any questions feel free to ask.