I want you to close your eyes for a moment and try to imagine being 19. Now imagine being pulled away from your family, your friends, and your home, and placed into hell with nothing but a gun and a prayer. You are a soldier in 1944, fighting in one of the most gruesome and pitiless wars of all time: World War II.
It is December 15, 1944. Your company of 250 men, the farthest division advanced in Germany, has just captured Kesternich. Early dawn of the very next day, the town is lit up by large klieg lights as an entire tank division comes pouring into the town. The rumble of machines shakes the ground beneath you and creates a sound so powerful that it seems as though the Earth is splitting into two.
You are in the basement of a small house when a tank stops right outside the window.The .88 gun of the Panzer tank points directly at the window, forcing you and a handful of other terrified soldiers to surrender. At this point, there are only 50 of you left.
Barely able to walk, being so weighed down with fear, you are all marched to a school house and lined up by a German Prisoner of War lieutenant. This man, for whom you feel nothing but hatred, walks up and down the line of men, and out of everyone else, points to you. The lieutenant accuses you of having shot German prisoners. You are pulled out of the line and taken by truck to Bonn Prison Camp.
You are still only 19 years old and instead of running around a college campus, you are put in solitary confinement. The cell is smaller than a closet and has only one tiny door. You have no overcoat and nothing to shield you from the cold. You see no one for six weeks and your only nutritional in-take consists of Ersatz bread. Because the Germans do not have enough whea...
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...n, longing for the secure arms of your mother. You smile at her and almost collapse as she walks right by you, unable to recognize you due to your condition....
Pain does not end just because the war did. Everyday is a reminder of being a 19-year-old
prisoner of war. After seeing such an evil side of man, it is amazing that you even find a way to greet each day.
This is the story of my grandfather, Arthur Rubenstein. It was once said that “It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.” This war is a story my Grandfather kept silent about for many years, and as amazing as it is to hear what happened, it is just as much an honor to hear him be able and willing to tell it. The soldiers and victims of World War II should never be forgotten, for the price of freedom should never be as great as it was.
Occurring in 1942, the Germans believe they have built an ‘escape proof’ camp in which they plan to house their most troublemaking prisoners. What they do not realize, is that they have put all of their greatest masterminds in one place and allowed them to speak to one another. If unable to escape, the prisoners believe it is their job to make the German officials pay as much attention to their confinement as possible and away from other military expenditures. Unlike previous escape plans from the past, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader, Bartlet, plans a massive escape of 250 men through a series of tunnels.
As we have learned through Skolnick’s book, as well as Rubin’s research, the make up of the family is influenced by many factors. The economy, culture, education, ethnicity/race, and tradition all help to create the modern family. The last few decades have heavily influenced the family structure, and while some try to preserve the past, others embrace the future. Through it all, we find you can have both.
Bomba explained how people would walk through the “gate” and was never seen again. His job, along with sixteen or so other prisoners was to clean up the place so that when the next transport comes in, they would not see what was going on. His experience is very similar to the experience described by Mr. Mueller. Although they were in different camps, they were the experiencing the same torment. Ms. Farkas was deported to the Auschwitz camp where she worked in the kitchens to receive extra food. She was deported to another camp and later forced on a death march. Her experience is also very similar to Mr. Mueller’s. Toward the end of the war, he describes how he and other prisoners were forced on a death march. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas indirectly shows that there is no survival from the camp. Shmuel tells Bruno how his grandparents died shortly after arriving at the camp and later asks Bruno to help him look for his father because he hadn’t seen him a few days. Unbeknownst to Shmuel and Bruno, his father had already suffered the fate of the gas chamber. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Mr. Mueller, Mr. Bomba and Ms. Farkas endured to live to tell their stories. It is hard to believe the cruelty they experienced at hands of other human beings. When faced in difficult situations, it is the survival of the fittest and I would like to think that I could be as strong in order to
Being a leader is no simple task. During my Eagle Scout project, I lead a range of people, from adults to youth. It was my job to make sure everyone was working and, that everyone was capable of doing their task. I had many issues doing this throughout my project because I am only one person and I can’t be everywhere at once. Thusly made being a leader a drudgery. But I had an incredible set of adults guiding me along the way, who taught me that being a leader was not doing everything myself, being a leader
It is the winter of 1942, and a desperate, poorly equipped and demoralized Russian army faces the possibility of crushing defeat by the might of the German blitzkrieg. A young naïve soldier from the Urals, Vassily Zaitsev, arrives in Stalingrad where he is thrust into battle amid the needless slaughter of his fellow soldiers be the Germans and his own troops. To his shock, he is not given a rifle to use during the attack. Instead, the men are paired together and one is given a rifle while the other is given extra ammunition. Vassily survives the first fierce assault and finds himself side-by-side with the political officer, Danilov. They are trapped among the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers behind the lines, and Vassily’s talent as a sniper, homed to perfection from a childhood spent hunting wolves with his grandfather, is realized by Danilov when Vassily calmly and methodically kills five German soldiers. Returning to the relative safety of Russian controlled sector in the city, Danilov, a writer, glorifies Vassily’s exploits in a newspaper article.
The year is 1945, in chilly cold January, the Soviet army comes across the heinous sight, Auschwitz. The soldiers release walking skeletons with damaged minds, and can’t help to look away in disgust or scold at the grotesque images displayed with every step they take. The survivors, immediately start searching through the crowds for their beloved ones and either find them stacked in a pile to collect mud and bugs or simply are offered no condolences, no clues about their state. When these people thought the nightmare was over, they found themselves with no shelter, no money or possessions, flashbacks that never allowed them to feel secure ever again and for some the idea of liberty was destroyed when their liberators forced their uniforms against the survivor’s bare bodies, a
So, what is a family? A family is a group of people who live with,
The history of family has changed enormous in the United Kingdom since 1945. Modern England has differed about the concept in family in which compare with traditional family no matter is the character of family, the relationship in household as well as the power in Britain family. Meanwhile, it also has been appearing a variety type of family, and structures also tend to smaller and smaller. For the sake of know more about the Britain family changing, the following part will utilize social sciences disciplines to explain and analyses in this complicated circumstance.
It’s is a different feeling when the ground rumbles and shakes from the incoming and outgoing heavy guns. Speaking of heavy guns on our way to the trenches me and my company got the pleasure of seeing our heavy guns up close. I think that it brought a good feeling to everyone that knew they were getting backed up by those immense field artillery. As we approached the trenches two of the soldiers in my company got hit by a flying projectile. Know one really knew where it came from, I mean considering that there is constant chaotic bullet fire on both sides it could of been a sniper. That is a eerie feeling not knowing if there is a sniper or snipers that watch the reinforcements go into the trenches. What does the sniper just chose out of all your fellow soldiers who is gonna die today. Anyways we were told that me and my squad will spend the next four days on the front lines. How are we gonna do it. After we spend four days here we go to a reserves camp and then rotate back in. It seems like all of the men have gone through hell, even more than hell. I keep telling myself that I need to keep my head down and get home to my mom. It will be in three months that I will finally go back home. I need to get back home and soon I already hate it here and three months is gonna be too long. There is so much death, diseases, hatred, and hate. Hate for the enemy side and hatred for cause of everyone's suffering here. As a child I never really cared about the sundays me and my parents took to go to church. Now it's all I can think about. I think of god and of the miracles that i’m praying
The life of a prisoner was tough. The life of a prisoner was harsh. They had no respect. I think I could’ve survived a day living in a concentration camp. Do you think you could? This passage is about the daily life of a prisoner in a concentration camp. This is your chance for you to read the struggle.
Just as we finished hiding the last couple weapons the Nazi’s barged in and pushing my brother and I outside our home, I glance back just in time to see the outline of my parents’ bodies and a fire inside my stomach went into flames and I knew that I was going to escape this hell for my parents, who wanted a much better life for my siblings and I. Word spreads like a wild fire in the ghetto, I bump into Zivia on the way to the trains and she shows me her weapon under her coat to show that she has the same idea. 360,000 people are in this ghetto, and 260,000 have slowly been deported to the unknown. As they line us up to shove us into the train our members were everywhere, and we all knew it was time to strike
To perform well as a leader, the leader must identify individual strengths, weaknesses, and potential; acquire knowledge of leadership, power, influence, and authority to get the right things done at the right time.
Murdock’s idealised view of the family could now be seen as outdated as it is no longer the most common family structure in Britain today although it can still be used as an argument against other perspectives. While there have been many changes to the structure of the family and the roles performed within it, the nuclear family remains an ideal for the majority of people in society.
To thoroughly elaborate on the institution of family we most look at the family as it was before and how much it has changed over time. Throughout the years we are recognizing that the family is slowly being replaced by other agents of socialization. Families in the past consisted of a mother and a father and most times children. We are, as many societies a patriarchal society; men are usually the head of the households. This has always been considered the norm.
Consequently, anyone can be a leader. A kid can be leading in a school project without a problem. But just because you are a leader that does not mean that you have leadership. Leadership is a characteristic that a person can have and it can be achieved by trust, respecting others, and giving your best effort and in so many more ways. A leader can be rude, disrespectful, and competitive and that leader does not have leadership. Step up and take the role of leadership. It will make a difference in yourself and in the others around you.