Shoes come in different styles, materials, colors, and sizes but they all represent the different individuals wearing them.
Imagine that I am a pair of blue shoes to a little boy named John in 1942. My responsibility as a shoe was to lead John to interesting new places he can call adventure. I’ve been there with him through thick and thin but that was until he was taken away by the police on to the cattle cars. We didn't know where we were going but ended up in a place called a concentration camp. This adventure was not an exciting one but I saw soldiers separating John from his parents and eventually they separated me from John. I was thrown away with all these other shoes who also led their owners to a strange “shower” that was rumored to have led them to no longer be with us anymore. All of the shoes that have been thrown away feel the same pain and we wait for our owners to come back so we can be reunited.
Elly Kamm believed that her life was “beautiful” and she lived a very “spoiled” life until she arrived at the ghettos in 1942. As people were being taken away on to the trains, Elly Kamm was about to lose her mother and brother so she volunteered to leave with her family. Her mother told her to go back home to get another pair of shoes for the trip. Her mother and little brother
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Shoes are very important to people because they provide protection and lead us to adventure. In the Holocaust Museum, there are over 25,000 shoes that remain from the ruins of the concentration camps. Everyone who sees these shoes are left with profound thought because every one of them has the imprint of the individuals who once wore them. All of these shoes help us imagine who may have been wearing them at one point and we are reminded of those who died. Each shoe at one point had an individual like you and me that once guided them to new places but now we must remember each individual so we can tell the adventure that their shoes once guided them through
In the year 1941, Lithuania was invaded and many Jewish families fled from Lithuania. Margarets family didn't leave because her brother Alik was at a children's holiday camp. Margaret was never sent to a camp, she lived in the ghetto. Margaret's description of the ghetto years as “dreadful”. The people were forced to do hard labour and were deprived of their food.
In the book of Elly My True Story of the Holocaust Elly is a Jewish girl who her family is living in a little town in Romania. As Romania invades their small town and get thrown into a ghetto where there are crowded into little homes. This was the day that Elly and her family was sent to the concentration camp called Auschwitz II were her mother and brother were sent to the left and she was sent to the right were she lived she never saw her family. Elly was working for years in the camp when it was liberated in January 27, 1945 elly was sent free and wrote this book
“Walking with Living Feet,’ is about a 15 year old young girl . Dara Horn, who wrote this passage talks about her visit at a concentration camp located in Poland, Majdanek. Dara thoroughly explains all her emotions and thoughts about the camp. During her article she mentions shoes, the shoes that were collected by the Nazis during the war. Dara Horn explained all the shoes as an ocean. She explained it this way because there was an endless amount of shoes in about five barracks she states. “ About five barracks are filled with nothing but the shoes of the people who were killed there-over 850,00 pairs.” (Horn,7) This would be an example of information helping someone understand what happened to people.
In The Journal of Hélène Berr, we are given the first hand account of a young Jewish woman in Paris during the German occupation. This primary source provides a strong insight into how Paris was changing before Hélène’s eyes. Hélène started keeping a journal to preserve memories, but over time, as the German occupation started to change her life, it became something more. Her writing became darker, because so did her outlook. For one, towards the end of the
She one day went out for a routine trip with her aunt and uncle to the Mosque. She is surprised to find Nazi Soldiers waiting for her, they line her family up with the rest (Yolen 75) . They continue by laying them down on the ground, they sit there for hours, any Nazi Soldier or German could take anything they wanted, Jewelry, prized possessions, whatever. The horrors kept mounting up, they thought it was over, to find themselves being sent to a train boxcar (Yolen 77), where they were there inside for four days. The door was only opened once, to pass a bucket of muck for them to drink out of. Chaya had to experience holding a baby in her hands to it’s death. The Nazis did nothing but throw it off the train like a bag of trash (Yolen 83) . This kind of discrimination made Chaya realize that there were evil people in the world, that didn’t play fair and by the
On September 10,1930 there was a girl named NadIne Schatz and she was apart of the Holocaust society which was sad because families were taking away to fight in battles.Nadine was born in Boulogne-Billancourt,France and her mother named was Ludmilla Schatz and was a kind mother and care about her kid making good grades. On the other hand Nadine mother taught piano and she was the most gifted piano teacher in her country.But Nadine was the daughter of immigrant Jewish parents.Her Russian born mother settled in France following the Russian Revolution of 1917.Also Nadine attended elementary school pairs.And so Nadine would go to school and the mother went to work so the grandmother move in with them and she would cook meals for them.One
Born in Poland, Henia Weit was the youngest of nine children in her family. She lived in a town by the name of Sambor. Unfortunately, the town was bombarded by German soldiers shortly after Hitler started his reign of terror on the Jews. Henia’s family was forced to do laborious work in a ghetto until they were all deported to a concentration camp. Fortunately for Henia, she was able to escape and never went to the concentration camp herself. Instead, she had to survive for several years alone, with only her sister to turn to.
During the Holocaust, Jewish people were submitted to the vilest and most inhumane conditions the world had ever seen. Their most basic freedoms were taken from them. At first, all they lost were items such as flour, eggs, sugar, and cocoa. Later, they were stripped of their land and businesses and separated according to their ability to be productive slaves to Hitler's Third Reich. Those that were deemed unfit were sent to slaughter houses. Entire families were torn apart, much like what happened to Gerda Weissman Klein's family. Despite watching her mother, father, and brother being taken from her, knowing that she would never see them again, she found the strength to survive three years in German labor camps through her family,
Life is a precious thing, and it is so precious that some people will undergo severe anguish to hold on to it. During the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany, people of the Jewish religion were diabolically oppressed and slaughtered, just for their beliefs. Some Jews went to extreme measures to evade capture by the German law enforcement, hoping to hold on to life. Krystyna Chiger was only a small child when her family, along with a group of other desperate Jews, descended into the malignant sewers to avoid the Germans. After living in the abysmal sewers for fourteen months, her group emerged, and when she became an adult, she authored a novel about her time in the sewer. When analyzing the literary elements utilized in her novel, The Girl in the Green Sweater, one can determine how tone and mood, point of view, and conflict convey the message of struggle and survival that was experienced during the Holocaust, and how they help the reader to understand and relate.
One, as been told in the film, that “red is the color of sex”, and “The Sex is in the Heel” pertaining to the idea of what message should the production of the boots give out to the niche market. Second, the wig and dresses Lola wears. It shows how she hides herself from the identity of Simon and tries to fit in the world where she believes she belongs. Lastly, the existence of shoes further implies several messages: (1) moving forward with the dreams, goals, and hopes in life, (2) comfortable shoes take you anywhere, (3) “you are a lucky man in a proper place”, quoted from Bunny Slippers, (4) shows sexuality, and (5) symbolizes power and
It all started with a Jumpman and a swoosh, it was more than just a shoe it was the start of a culture. What most people look at as just a shoe to protect their feet has a story behind it and a deeper meaning to me and many others than “just a pair of shoes”. Don’t put on a pair of shoes unless you know how to wear them right. For every pair I own I could explain the troubles I went through and the people I met to get each sneaker. The best feeling was opening that fresh shoe box and taking out that paper wrapping. Putting on each new pair of sneakers is like taking a breath of fresh air each pair crisp as bacon. I am one among many sneakerheads, people who love to buy, sell, trade, and collect rare shoes. There is a culture, lifestyle, and history behind sneaker collecting. Most people would think dropping hundreds if not thousands on a pair of shoes is crazy but I believe sneakers are essential.
The spine chilling experiences Jewish individuals faced during the holocaust are conveyed well in the short story “The Shawl” as the author, Cynthia Ozick illustrates the horrific battle of motherhood and strife for survival they faced. Rosa, Ozick’s main character experiences an internal battle of nurturing her infant Magda and following her motherly instincts or fighting for her own survival. Magda another crucial character grips onto the ropes of life through the threads of the shawl but when she loses her shawl she loses her life showing the harsh realities of the concentration camps. Through the use of symbolism and carefully orchestrated imagery Ozick brings to life the unspeakable struggles the Jewish faced to survive in the midst
I felt that sandals should be associated with tropical vacations for all the rest of us, but that barbed wire represent hard life of people in those areas of Dominican Republic. I kept questioning myself who were the people who worn this sandals? Where they slaves that somebody made them wear barbed wire sandals so they can keep feeling hurt or only locals wore them as a part of some ritual? I finally realize that those sandals represent life in poverty and eagerness for better life. These sandals represent people who would be better off if their only problem was wearing this sandals. Their lives had much more pain than any foot hurt by barbed wire sandal. I had a mixed feelings while looking at those sandals, remembering my life while growing up in war destroyed country while my parents were trying to find ways to migrate from Yugoslavia and make my life better. Thank God they succeed, but there are still marks from barbed wire on our feet and pain is sometimes coming back.
"On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13, 152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. In the Vélodrome d' Hiver that once stood on this spot, 1,129 men, 2,916 women, and 4,115 children were packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget” (De Rosnay 60). In the book Sarah’s Key, it begins with a young girl named Sarah Starzinsky, who is dealing with her family being removed by the French police and put into a camp. Before the family left, Sarah puts her brother into a closet and locks him in to where he will not come out until she comes back. However, Sarah and her family did not realize that they were not