Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Answers to Interview

INTERVIEW ANSWER

1. What is your name? Charles Mathew

2. How old were you when you were taken from your home to the camp? 10 years old

3. What were you doing at the right before you were taken from your home? I was sitting in my house on a Saturday it was around 10:00 am I was laying on the floor witching TV my mom was making breakfast my dad was up stairs getting dressed for work.

4. How did the people come and take your family? About 4 men came to my house they came in from the back door and grabbed my mom when she started screaming I ran and called my dad he came running down the stairs and these men had guns and told us to get in the truck when we went out the house I looked around and seen almost all most my hole block being forced out their homes. I broke away from the man and tried to run to my mom but they pulled me away. I was screaming and crying then they took her away I thought it was because how I was acting but all the women and men were apart.

5. What were your emotions when they took you out your home and put you into a train to take you to the camp? I did not know were I was going until my father started crying and said “I know that this day would come but I never come so soon I wish I would have just took my family away from here when I first heard of it. Why did I wait for them to come its all my fault?” I did not understand why he was saying this so I asked and he just kept saying its all my fault. So then I just got scared and just kept saying I went to go home but my father aid that this is our new home that we are starting a new life. I was upset because I did not get to take any of my things say good by to all my friends but we had to just go.

6. How did you feel when you first stepped foot onto the campsite? I was just looking around. Asking my self why did we come here why did we leave our house to come to a place were it was all dusty and dirty. So I asked my father then he just got mad at me and told me to shut up.


7. Who from your family were taken with you? My mom, dad, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I only saw my aunts, and my girl cousins once because we were in different camps.

8. What were your emotions when you where taken away from your mother? I was hurt it was like my mom was dead and she was never coming back who was going to take care of e when I got sick. I just wanted my mother back just one more hug, kiss just to tell her I loved her I wanted my mother so bad every day I cried y self to sleep because I missed my mother.

9. When did you find out that you would never see your mother again? How did you feel? When we got all put in our rooms I asked my father were was we going to see mother again and he just started crying and set my down and said to me “one day pray to god one day.” I just cried because I know that he was saying never I was so hurt I wonted to ask so many questions but I just didn’t.

10. What was your reaction when you were put to work in the camp? When they got me up and told me to put my things on I thought that they had a school but when my father lead me to a room were there was coil and logs I just looked and asked what am I to do with this and before my father could say and thing some man walked over and said shut up and get to work. I was only 10 years old I did not went to work I wanted to go to school I didn’t went to work.

11. Did you have any friends at the camp? Are they still alive or were they killed at the camp? Yes some kids from my school were there and some of my friends were there that I was already friends with were there also. Some 4 of them are still alive and the rest are dead. Tom, Mike, Bill but Andrew just past away in 2000. We are all still friends.

12. When they started killing kids and old people how did you feel? I thought that I was going to be next I did not went to die I was so scared.

13. Did you work harder once you found out that you would be killed if you did not work? I started working as hard as I could in order for me to stay alive I did not wish to die.

14. Who was killed from your family at the camp? Everyone was killed from my family except for my mother when it was all over and I saw her again I was so happy even though I was sad because my father was killed and my family was killed.

15. When were you able to go home? How old were you when you came home? I was alb to come home when I was 18 I do not remember the day but I remember my happiness when I saw my mother I was so happy only thing we could do was cry she said that if she did not get out soon that they were going to kill her because she was old I just held her and cried we had to be holding on to each other for like 1 hour in he same spot I never thought that I would see my mother again.

16. When you were able to go home how did you feel? I was happy because I wanted to get out of that place and start a life of my own when we came home we had no place to stay so we had to move with my grandmother in Philadelphia and I just stayed here from that day.

17. What was it like to experience the Holocaust? It was like hell in there you got no sleep, if you were sick you had to still go to work. When you went to eat you couldn’t because you had to eat when everyone ate. Even though it was slop you ate it because you had nothing better to eat. It was a painful, sad, and upsetting place to be. I would never wish this on anyone I will always remember the pain and hurt from that place. I lost a lot of family in that place and I never will forget it.

18. Thank you for your help.






By: shawanda s

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

My thoughts on school religion I don’t feel any type of way about other peoples religion. I only don’t like it when people say that some people’s religion is not true. When people don’t accept others peoples religion. Because of there belief. My mother is Muslim and my father is to but my father was not raised in a Muslim religion. So when I go to my dad’s side of the family they try and make us eat pork because they don’t accept my families chose. In my household we are able to choose what we wish to believe in. Some times in school when some students talk about god they make it seem like any other god is not true. When we had to go in the Jews museum some people would not go into the pray hall because they were Muslim and the teachers made it a big deal and took points off of there grades. I do not think that it is right because it was against there religion and I don’t feel that they respected it. That is what I think about this subject.

By: shawanda smith
INTERVIEW


1. What is your name?

2. How old were you when you were taken from your home to the camp?

3. What were you doing at the right before you were taken from your home?

4. How did the people come and take your family?

5. What were your emotions when they took you out your home and put you into a train to take you to the camp?

6. How did you feel when you first stepped foot onto the camp site?


7. Who from your family were taken with you?

8. What were your emotions when you where taken away from your mother?

9. When did you find out that you would never see your mother again? Who did you feel?

10. What was your reaction when you were put to work in the camp?

11. Did you have any friends at the camp? Are they still alive or were they killed at the camp?

12. When they started killing kids and old people how did you feel?

13. Did you work harder once you found out that you would be killed if you did not work?

14. Who was killed from your family at the camp?

15. When were you able to go home? How old were you when you came home?

16. When you were able to go home how did you feel?

17. What was it like to experience the Holocaust?






By: shawanda smith

Annotated

FRANK, ANNE. ANNE FRANK IN THE WORLD 1929-1945.NEW YORK TORONTO LNDON AUCKLAND SYDNEY.FIRST SCHOLASTIC PRINTING, SEPTEMBER 2002

Anne frank was a young girl in her teen who was telling her story about how her family was hiding out because they did not went to go to a concentration camp. I think this fact is important to my project because she was there and she wrote this book first hand and how she felt and what she went throw.



By shawanda smith

Friday, January 4, 2008

Topic Choice Essay

Topic Essay

Brandon and I are doing our project on World War 1.We choose to do our project on World War 1 because as we looked it up it was a great and powerful War. There’s a man that lives next door to my grand mom who was in the war and I believe that his story would be a powerful story and would have a great impact on our project it would help people be able to know about the war first hand and second hand. We would tell the story of how some of his friends were killed in the war, how he got married before the war. How he did not know if he would go back home to his wife and family that he would cry everyday, and pry that he could one day see his family once more. We are going to do some reach on the Internet and go to the Constitution Center to get more information about this war and why it happened. We are going to look at some history books and go to the library. We believe that we could learn a lot about this war because it was one of the greatest wars in history. We also believe that this would take us to a great place in history. We are going to do a poster board so people could get a good look at the facts that we have. So they could get a better look fist hand at some of the meddles that the man has. We are going to talk to him about the war on a tape recorder and take pictures with him and all his tattoos that he has from the war.

By: Shawand and Brandon 12-13-07 American History NHD The great World War 1