The Holocaust.

The Holocaust...where do I start? Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ran multiple death camps throughout Germany. One of which was Auswitz. Thousands of Jews were killed in these camps one of which was Anne Frank. She hid with her family in the attic of her father's office. They were captured and only Otto Frank survived. The main reasons behind this extermination was Hitler's hate for all Jews and his belief of the Aryan race. He hated the Jews for two reasons; one, when his mother died, she was being taken care of by Jews and he believed that it was their fault she died, and two, the Jews at the Bank stopped funding for World War 1 so, again, he believed that it was their fault that Germany lost the war. As for the Aryan race, he believed the perfect race to be blond with blue eyes. For Pete's sake! He wasn't blond with Blue eyes! So, he built the concentration camps and deported Jews from Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and many other countries around Germany. Not all Jews made it when they got to the camps, some were killed right away; by gas chambers, mass shootings, etc. Many died of Starvation as well, but that was much later. Over Three million Jews were killed in the duration of the Holocaust. Only Two-hundred thousand survived.

The upper-most picture is of a map of Germany where the concentration/death camps lie. Many of these camps were put up and are still up in 2010 only not running. These camps are:
Auswitz/Birkenau
Treblinka
Chelmno
Sobibor
Majdanek
Belzec
Stutthof
and many more.

The United States didn't do nearly enough to stop the holocaust. We ignored the warnings and tried to pass them off as rumors; aiding the murder of over three million Jews. Well, that's all for now!

Back in time! Where to this time.....?

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

I am only 11 years old. My Mommy and Daddy don't have their jobs anymore. We lost our house because we couldn't afford to pay the rent so now we are living in a tent with eleven other people. It gets cramped at night when we lie down for bed. We don't know what is happening in the world since our radio broke. We only have a few clothes each. I'm wearing a dress with flowers on it. It's my favorite one.

My Mommy and Daddy say we can get out of here now! President Roosevelt has this New Deal thing going on and it is allowing my Mommy and Daddy to go back to work! Mommy is a seamstress. She sews pretty dresses and handsome suits for men and women. Daddy is a car salesman. He sells cars to the people. He also fixes cars when they break. I get to go back to school to play with all of my friends. I wonder if they'll be happy to see me. It's been a while. I like President Roosevelt. His New Deal programs are really neat too!

He made alot of programs for the New Deal. I like them all but the one I like most is the Investment in Youth one. The NYA was established to oversee work programs and educational grants that caters to men and woman ages 16 to 25. Even though I am only 11 I still like this Program because it helps my older brothers go to school and stay in school. Part time jobs, or work-study, help over 600,000 students pay for college and 1.5 million students stay in high school. He also made the Jobs Programs which was run by the CCC, the CWA, and the WPA. The employed 13 million people, including my mommy and daddy.

Labor Unions

( http://jonesview.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/unions21.jpg) Labor unions. Where to start on labor unions. Strikes are coming up left and right. The strike for three loaves was the most recent. Workers had a decrease in pay. About 32 cents were taken out of the workers pay. That's enough to buy three loaves of bread. They could barely get enough bread as it is let alone decreasing their pay. Workers cant afford to feed their families and families starve. Little kids to adults. Not everyone is getting enough food. This really puts the emphasis on 'there are starving kids in -insert country here- that would love to have that.' Workers formed labor unions in response to intolerable working conditions, low wages, and long hours. I think labor unions are okay, I mean. When workers banded together it pressured employers to respond to their demands. This whole experience in the 1800s has been really fun. Learning more about all these different goingons from the actual people has been great. See ya later!