Kitty Hart-Moxon was born on December 1st, 1926. Moxon is a Polish Holocaust Survivor who was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1943 when she was only 16 years old. Her born name is Kitty Felix and she was born in the Polish town of Bielsko. She had one sibling, a brother named Robert who was five years older than her. She was happy as a child and was a talented swimmer. She even represented Poland as a member of the Youth Swimming Team in 1939. She won a bronze medal and was the youngest on the squad. When Kitty was 12 years old, her parents made the decision to leave Bielsko because of how close it was between the German and Czechoslovakian borders. In august of 1939 Kitty and her family moved to Lublin, Poland. Soon after, …show more content…
With these, Kitty and her mother were smuggled onto a train containing Poland workers that was headed toward Germany. To increase their chances of survival, Kitty’s family split up. Kitty followed her mother to I.G Farben in Bitterfeld and worked alongside her at a rubber factory. On March 1943, Kitty, along with twelve other Jews working at the factory, including kitty's mother, were taken to the Gestapo headquarters, the official secret police base of Nazi Germany. Everyone was interrogated and charged at a trial three days later with “endangering the security of Third Reich”, and “illegally entering Germany with forged papers.” After being told they would be executed, and the squad conducted a mock execution, they were struck by luck and were told their sentences had been changed to hard labour. On April 2nd, 1943, Kitty, only 16 years old, and her mother arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp. They worked with dead prisoners, which was better than the very physically demanding jobs mostly men worked in the camp. In order to their survive the rash conditions, they took many items found on the dead, and traded them with other items from other
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
Many extremely cruel and torturous things took place inside Auschwitz. Children, visibly pregnant women, and the elderly were often murdered upon arrival to Auschwitz. The Nazis did this because women and children were unable to endure the harsh labor that the Nazis wanted to put the Jews through, so they would inevitably be killed anyways. This is very cruel, not just because the women, children, and elderly were brutally murdered, but because this tore apart families within the camp; people had to live with the fact that their loved ones had been killed by Nazis. If children survived the initial separation, medical experiments were often performed on them by Dr. Josef Mengele, who was the main doctor in the camp, such as being put in pressure chambers, castrated or sterilized, and being frozen to death. This shows that the Nazis clearly didn’t care about how they treated their hostages. This proves one of the ways that the Nazi officers were inhumane and that the camp was a place filled with torture and death.
Barbara Strozzi was one of the most talented figures of the seventeenth century. Strozzi was born in Venice in 1619 to Isabella Garzoni, servant to Giulio Strozzi. In 1628, Giulio Strozzi acknowledged Barbara as his natural daughter by referring to her in his will as his “figliuola elettiva”, meaning elective daughter and designating her as his heiress. (Spiller, Melanie. 2012)
Success in high school requires years of hard work and dedication to excellence. During her four years at Holy Trinity, Yasmeen Ettrick has proved herself to be a successful, and dedicated member of the Holy Trinity community. Yasmeen Ettrick
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Rachel Dein is a London Based artist, who studied Fine Arts at Middlesex University . She is most famously known for her tiles made of cement and plaster featuring molds of flowers. She currently runs and owns the Tactile Studio in North London to support herself and her three children. Before setting up her own studio, but after going to art school, she decided to take up an apprenticeship at The Royal Opera House and later branched out to other theaters to continue her prop making career including The English National Opera, The West End Theaters, London Transport Museum and Selfridges Christmas windows. Her time in prop making allowed her to explore her love of theatre, film, and opera while expanding her knowledge of 3d design. She also enjoys gardening, which is where she has gotten some of the materials for her craft.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
Katherine Johnson is a memorable African American mathematician and an icon for young black girls around the world. Katherine Johnson loved math. Early in her career, she was called a “computer.” She helped NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth, and then she helped put a man on the moon.
As common knowledge, people normally recognize the term “concentration camp” and immediately refer to the prison camps the Jews were sent to during the Holocaust. In Corrie Tenboom’s famous collective story of her imprisonment, The Hiding Place, she writes in visual description of exactly how the Jews were treated in these camps. Women were forced to stand naked in front of Nazi guards for not much reason at all and made them feel less than human and animalistic. The people were beaten and killed on a regular day basis. One of the worst parts of these camps were the barbaric gas chambers. Men, women, and children would be fooled and dragged into chambers in groups to stand and be slaughtered by the dozen. Concentration camps are what can be known as the cruelest and most barbaric part of World War II history.
Do you know who Sarah Thomas is? She is the NFL’s first female full time and most accomplished female referee. She was born in 1973 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. When she was in highschool she played basketball and softball. The officials never liked her because she would always try to make them change the call and she would disagree with them. It was the same when she went to the University of Mobile. She wanted to stay involved with sports after she graduated, so she joined a church basketball league for men.She played with them for two years until she was told she could no longer play.
In the film “A Day in Auschwitz” we learn about a woman named Kitty Hart, a holocaust survivor that was forced into Auschwitz only at the age of sixteen. In present day; we observe Kitty and two other young girls (Lydia and Natalia) walk around the camp while also being educated on the horrors that took place in auschwitz, and Kitty’s struggle for survival. The documentary also mentions Kitty’s mother, a smart, skilled, and talented woman that helped both her and her daughter escape Auschwitz.
Morrison, Jack G.. Ravensbrück: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp, 1939-45. Princeton, NJ: Wiener, 2000. Print.
Wendy Hurrell was born as Wendy Louise Hurrell on 24 May 1982 in Norfolk, England. Although she was born in Norfolk, she grew up in Filby, near Great Yarmouth. She is of Norwegian ethnicity and she has an English nationality. She rose to fame as an English television presenter who is currently working for BBC London as its weather presenter.