Four innocent lives taken, twenty-two people injured, causing affliction in the families lives. Because of Birmingham having a big impact United States and the Civil Rights Movement, it changed racial history. The KKK had a momentous role in the Racial equality fight, The Civil Rights Movement. Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing had a significant impact on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
“At that time it wasn’t anymore families. It was everybody to take care for himself.” Vladek Spiegelman would know first hand that friendships and family relationships were tested when lives were at stake, as a holocaust survivor he lived through many incidents where his life and the lives of others were on the line but yet only a few friends and family were willing to help. The others were opposed to helping them. In Art Spiegelman’s book Maus: My father Bleeds History he tells his father’s life from just before the war and his journey throughout Poland.
The Jews started their work digging huge trenches and when they were done, the men from Gestapo were sent to do the same thing. One man kept continuing to go from house to house to tell people a story about him and his companions. The man was put on the train and he was talking about how he wishes he could escape. The man would always close his e yes and think
I’m Lore Heumann I was 13 years I died in the holocaust here is my life story. I was the youngest child of my family the only children in my family was me and my big sister margot, I was born into to jewish in a village close to the belgian border. My family lived close to our general store. And around the street was my grandpa he kept cows and horse in his farm, grandma said that she had to go somewhere for a long time, it’s been six months seen I saw her. I loved talk to my friends and to play with my dolls my parents bought me.
US Bombing of Germany and Japan in WWII At the end of World War II, the Allied Forces shifted tactics. Now they started bombing from low altitude to urban areas. This new form of bombing involved dropping of high-explosive bombs to break windows and incendiary bombs to start fires. Throughout eleven days the British and American forces bombed Hamburg, Germany, multiple times in a campaign codenamed "Operation Gomorrah.
As I leaped out of the cattle car after that long, terrible ride, i heard a Nazi soldier saying that family will be kept together and work will not be hard. I did not believe that one bit because my mother was already taken away and things are already going really bad. Then we got into a line and marched into the camp. The, i noticed that the gate of the camp says that work makes you free. After I read those words I knew things were going to be way worse than ever.
But then it got worse because the Nazis were very strict. Then, I saw dead bodies all over. After, we got ready to finally eat food, but the food that they brought out for us was bread with dust and wood shavings in it as well as spoiled salami. The officers did not treat us well. They never fed us, we barely showered, we slept on mattresses that were infested with bugs, we had lice, disease was very common, and we were constantly being punished for no reason.
During the 1940’s a girl named Lina and her family were just having an ordinary day when suddenly they get a knock at the door. They open it to a soldier stating they have 20 minutes before they have to leave everything and get arrested. Nobody understood why and nobody asked questions, they just obeyed. Lina and her family get taken on trains and cars to go to prison camp with hundreds of others. While her father was already gone to Siberia.
The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) went on to claim credit for some 25 bombings over the next several years like the Haymarket statue, a bathroom at the Pentagon, the Capitol barber shop, the New York City police headquarters, and a variety of other targets. The WUO also (for a fee of $25,000) helped psychedelic drug guru Timothy Leary break out of a California prison and arranged for his transport to Algiers. However, these bombings didn’t have any mass mobilization effect and the fact that the Vietnam war was coming to a close also didn’t help their cause. Also the structure of the WUO was that they had a Central Committee (known as the Weather Bureau) that postulated and controlled what the Weather Underground did, and this reduced
In 1944, in the village of Sighet, Romania, seventeen-year-old Baldwin goodwind spends much of his time playing basketball with is friends having fun, but one day one of his best friends named Austin came in running. While struggling to speak form being tired, he told all the teens” Germans are taking people for no reason”. Everyone laughed including Baldwin at the same time could Austin be telling the truth. They continued to play basketball and a few moments later they hear screaming in the distance. Austin looked in the direction and said “ see people are being taken from their homes”.
An 18 year old man named Otto Kraler had a Journal. In this journal it contained his Journey through the Holocaust. Many of his family members are gone and him and his little sister are left. He is running from the SS officers trying to look for his twin sister. This is a story written by him called “I Wish” Day 12: I am sitting in a tree with my sister, I needed to take a break from the running.
In 1942 the Blitz was a bombing attack by the German air force on London during World War II. Children living in London were significantly impacted. Schools were targeted, and not ignored by the bombings. Mmany were damaged and destroyed. Children in London did not have many options for a place to learn.
During the time The Jews were hiding in there blocks when they realized that the officers left two rations of soup unattended. Then someone crawled to them after opening the block door. As the man was trying to get the soup he died there, then planes were flying overhead and started bombing the camp. “But we no longer feared death in any event not this particular death. Every bomb that hit filled us with joy, gave us a renewed confidence (Wiesel 60).”
It had begun, World War 2 the biggest battle of my life and first battle. I and my crew were already in the boats and an hour to the shore, we have finally arrived, and I was terrified and not sure why I have signed up for this! As the doors had opened, BANG! It was the Turks, loading up the machine guns and firing at us, I myself already had witnessed thousands of dead bodies lying on the ground, by just arriving to the battlefield.
The year is 1943, clouds are hovering over and the temperature is in the mid-70s. A regular day, I was going to run my errands and come home and make dinner. But then everything changed. German soldiers came barging into my house. Without knocking or anything just busted my door down.
