Starting in 1941, boxcars were so important to the Holocaust that 1.4 million workers were required to keep it up and running (Blohm). On the boxcars, the Jews were loaded 100 to 130 people per car, then transported to the labor camps and eventually death.Very few victims live to tell their stories of what it was like to travel on these boxcars, and the death that waited on the other side (Menszer). Jews were transferred into the boxcars from the ghettos, and some were never told their fate, others
Boxcar Horrors " The journey to the camps began with a train ride, with Jews packed into pitch-black rail cars, with no room to sit down, no bathrooms, no hope." (Lombardi). This is a quote from a book a man wrote about his time in Auschwitz when he was young. Up to 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, an awful event led by Adolf Hitler and his army based in Germany, the Nazis. One of the horrible things about the Holocaust was the boxcars taking the victims to the camps. Some things that made
million survived. May 8, 1945, the Holocaust finally came to an end. The Boxcar Horrors were one of the many tragedies of the Holocaust. The horror of the boxcar exudes from its use and conditions during this period in history. During the Holocaust Nazi officers used boxcars to transport European Jews from one camp to another. Manufactured in Germany, the boxcars were made of wood and steel. Referred to as cattle cars, boxcars weren’t made to use humans as cargo but cattle and horse . The Nazi’s used
The Setting of Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath does not have one specific setting, but rather travels from Okalahoma to California. The setting in this novel is realistic because you can follow the Joads journey on a map. Accuracy to the novel was very important to Steinbeck because he wanted this novel to be a social document rather then just another piece of fiction. The main characters in the novel are sharecroppers turned into migrant workers much of the stetting is taken place
reading I liked to read books that were fiction. Some of my favorite books to read as a child are series that I still love today and I think I still have every book in each series stored in my attic. They are The Boxcar Children, Junie B. Jones, and The Magic Tree House. The Boxcar Children is a series of novels written by Gertrude Chandler Warner. In the first book of the series, four children become orphans. They ran away from their grandfather
preacher, demonstrates that one does not always actively seek to start a new life. When the family moves to the peach farm, Tom notices a crowd of people protesting outside the For instance, after leaving the government camp the family traveled to a boxcar settlement next to the cotton field they worked on. They began making more money than they had since leaving Oklahoma as did the rest of the people in the settlement. However, like the others, they became indulgent and began spending money on unnecessary
Dakota, the home land of the tribe members. Allusion is also used in the second line when the speaker says, “Boxcars stumbling north in dreams” (2). Boxcars are a North American railroad car that placed a huge significance in the Native Americans Lives. As the speaker says in the poem, “The rails, old lacerations that we love, shoot parallel across the face” (4-5). The rails that the Boxcars traveled on cut parallel through the Native Americans homeland. They say that the rail road track shoots right
In the following quote, Elli describes the difference between the wilderness and the boxcar, “It is a gay, lighthearted day of spring out there. In the boxcar it is airless and dark, and the scent of apathy is suffocating” (185). Being surrounded by hundreds of women in small boxcar is beyond unacceptable. Further on in the memoir, Elli describes how women were fighting and unable to move. Many died in the boxcars and other inmates would come around and discard the bodies to make room for the living
Can troublesome war experiences really play a role in causing hallucinations? A hallucination is a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside of one’s mind. An individual who suffers from hallucinations is Billy Pilgrim. Billy, a person who can supposedly time travel, jumps between his time on the alien planet Tralfamadore, his experiences during World War II, and his captivity in a German prison camp. His hallucinations may have been caused by the airplane crash that damaged his
future is not safe and if the future is not safe then that means the world will be destroyed. “ who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no broken hearts,/ who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars racketing through snow toward lonesome farms in grandfather night” (Section 1). This quote was just a small part of the description that was given in the poem. The majority of the first section was just giving description about the best minds
If you were in the main protagonists, Elli, shows and instead of your mom being paralyzed and dying it was your friend, would you help them the way Elli helped her mom or would you throw them out and let the SS guards kill him or her? In all the twists and turns of Elli and her family's life or death situations in the Holocaust they stay optimistic about surviving and telling their story of their lives. Sadly not everyone in her family made it but the people who did were reunited in the end. Throughout
Over one million Jewish children died during the Holocaust. They were ripped out of their homes and taken away from their families, and stripped of their childhoods. Innocent lives were caught in a war that they were not able to stop. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he promised Germany that he would improve life their by getting rid of the one race that caused the problems, the Jews. Jews, including Jewish children, were sent to concentration camps, inspected, and if approved, were sent
Kurt Vonnegut Junior is a praised author as well as a veteran of World War II, his well-known novel, Slaughterhouse Five, allowing him to put his experiences of the war into writing, though it’s much more fictionalized than one would think. Slaughterhouse Five is an anti-war novel that comments on various topics of war; how war desensitized soldiers to death (both during the war and post-war), the gruesome daily life the prisoners of wars carried, and indirect advocation against the Vietnam War.
The Grapes of Wrath 'In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.' This quote explains the whole book. It shows the people fighting for their lives from the many hardships they face. Also, it shows that there is ups and downs in life and sometimes facing the wrath that life gives us. The first hardship in the book is when the Joads are forced off their land. They have to overcome losing their home and basically their life. Also
population of 1million or more. Even with expansion with the hopes of creating more volume, Victoria Station was still unable to cover the fixed-cost percentages. They had roughly 100 restaurants in more than 50 markets. () Inflexible concept design- The boxcar, compared to traditional restaurants created high occupancy costs due to its expensive building and the maintenance. It also hindered the liquidation of assets to cover debts. Limited menu- Did not leave any allowances for customer change, dietary
Released from an Oklahoma state prison after serving four years of a manslaughter conviction, Tom Joad makes his way back to his family’s farm amid the desolation of the Dust Bowl. He meets Jim Casy, a former preacher who gave up his calling out of a belief that all life is holy, and that simply being among the people as an equal is a sacred endeavor. Jim accompanies Tom to his home; when they find it deserted, fronted by withered crops, they travel to Tom’s Uncle John’s house, where they find the
There are many inventions in the world that people use every single day, but they never stop to wonder where it came from or who invented it. Some of the greatest inventors of all time are Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo Da Vinci, the Wright Brothers and one of the most important, Thomas Edison. Some of the products Thomas Edison had invented were the lightbulb and the phonograph. We use Thomas Edison’s products everyday and they have had a great impact on the World. Thomas Edison was the last of
Hobos are often associated with train hopping, because that’s what many did during The Great Depression. Most hobos would hide among the tracks outside of the yard. Then they would run along the train, grab a hold and jump into the open boxcars. Once on the boxcar many teens headed to cities in search of work, and a new life. What they would find was freedom, companionship, misery and loneliness. On the outskirts of town, theses teens encountered hobo’s camps, or jungles.
companies with dangerous conditions. These work areas were so dangerous that over forty deaths were common for each year. Sometimes Italians in construction would live in boxcars while working on a long-term project. This can be seen in the third picture of the additional links, Italian Laborers, Padrones, and Pernicious Pasta. The boxcar is not very large space and is being shared by three workers. There is obviously no plumbing, very filthy, and most likely without furniture inside. The men look grimy
Successful heroes in literature must overcome plenty of obstacles in order to finish their journey. In fact, the journey of a hero in literature is characterized by 12 specific stages: ordinary world, call to adventure, refusal of the call, meeting with the mentor, crossing the first threshold, tests and allies, approach, ordeal, reward, the road back, resurrection hero, and return with elixir.1 The Grapes of Wrath is an allegory for the hero’s journey because the Joads experience each of these stages