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Summary 2 Ursula Levy

Ursula Levy was a small girl when World War II began and she was a Jewish girl in Germany that was put into some sort of camps and was almost put in Auschwitz but the train she was in, had been liberated before it could get there. She starts her story by telling of her father's death to gang-green and how no doctors or anybody would help. Ursula and her brother were taken from their mother shortly after the death of her father. She then moves on talking about the events she went through with her brother. They stayed in a town that had Catholics in it and the two were special in the hearts of one family and when the two were in the town they were fed very well. Ursula and her brother could not stay because they were Jews and taken to a ghetto were they stayed for several years. When Ursula and her brother were there she said they did nothing but stood for roll call most of the day. Ursula also spoke of how slow everyone was due to the malnourishment. Then Ursula tells of the two being put on a train to Auschwitz and for several weeks they were on a train. Then at the end of those weeks they were free from the Nazi's train by the Russian Army and the brother and sister went to a nearby town and found food in the abandoned town. Ursula then discusses her growing up. She went back to the Catholic family and they were so glad to see both her and her brother and the family could not believe they were alive. Ursula later found out that her mother was killed in the camps. After discussing her mothers death she moved on to conclude her interview by telling of her living in America.

Harrison Bergeron Response

Harrison

Summary 1: Edith Coliver

Edith Coliver was an eleven-year-old Jewish girl during World War II. She was from Germany at the time. However, she was not involved in the Holocaust. She was a translator for the prosecutors during the Nuremberg Trials. In the beginning she was raised in Germany and had a good life until the events of extreme antisemitism took place. At first she was given bad grades at her school because the law dictated that Jews had ad character therefore she could not get A's. So Coliver went to school in Britain were she was happy for a while. This is until the war was about to start and her father told her she was going to America with them. She was very fortunate that the American conciliate got her a visa to stay with her family because the waiting list was ten years to get one. So she moved to America where they stayed with an uncle for a couple of weeks. Then Edith and her family took a boat though the Panama Canal and headed to San Francisco where she lived until the end of the war. After the war she volunteered to be a translator at the Nuremberg Trials were she had spoken to many of the Nazi generals and Admirals. She spoke also of Göring and how he want to be shot and die like a soldier rather than hanged like the rest. Edith was scared when she was at the Nuremberg Trials. Although she did not know why it might have been because the trials were so important. When the trials were over she visited most of her old country. After Edith was done in Germany she went back to live in San Francisco were she lived with her family until the filming of the interview.

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Response to "A Film Unfinished" Scotty McMasters

The video we viewed in class was a startling one. I knew that the Nazis were cruel to the Jews during World War II but I had no idea of what cruelty they imposed on them. The people in the ghettos looked depressed beyond any humane level of sadness. The video made me wonder what had gone on behind the camera. What happened to those who were in the way by accident? How did they really live when the Nazis were away? These questions were either obvious to me or will never be answered. The dead bodies in the streets reminded me of the starving in Africa now, at least their bodies. It is just an awful thing to witness. I am horrified by the savage acts we humans are capable of. It scares me more than anything else in this world. The most sad part of the entire video, what broke me down, was the ritual bath and the look on the female's face and how scared she was. That to me made me tear up and wish nothing like this act of genocide and cruelty would happen again. As for the purpose of the film, I wonder who the propaganda was meant for. I also wonder why the Nazis even cared to make propaganda of the Jews because, they wanted to massacre them shortly after filming. This film has given me a better view of World War II. I am glad to be fortunate enough to not have been born in that time period. The horrors of war and what happens behind the lines are awful not matter where one is it can effect you. Events like the Holocaust make me feel angry towards the evil acts in the world. I hope to some day see the hatred toward one another end and that people never let something like as cruel as the Holocaust happen again.