Heinrich Sorg Research Paper

This is in my book because I learned quite a bit about German Migration. I add this on because it is my favorite from Social Studies.

Tobias Wolff was born on June 19th, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the second son of Arthur Samuels Wolff and Rosemary Loftus Wolff. At age five, Tobias faced a family breakup where he and his mother separated from his father and older brother, Geoffrey, due to the instability his father kept in his family life. Wolff and his mother constantly moved. They lived first in Florida, then moved to Utah in 1955, and finally settled in the Pacific Northwest, where his mother remarried a troublesome man, Dwight Hansen. They lived in Newhalem, Washington with Hansen and his three children. Wolff attended Concrete High School until he left for Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he faked his references to be accepted. He attended Hill School for a year but did not graduate and instead ended up joining the military for four years. Wolff’s family also did not reunite until 1961 when he saw his older brother and father after eleven years. From 1964 to 1968, Wolff served in the U.S. Army Special Forces, where he was assigned his post in Vietnam.

Sima Gleichgewicht-Wasser, she was born and raised in Warsaw. She was raised in a traditional Jewish home. On the 15 November, 1940, the germans opened a ghetto called Legionowo, 16 miles northeast of Warsaw. She worked as a smuggler to get food to her family. The police stopped her many times and confiscated her food. One time a german guard stopped her and try to make her admit she was Jewish but she never did so he got a German Shepard to bite her and tear pieces of her skin off to make her admit but she never did. One day Sima snuck out and on her way back acquaintance stopped her and told her don't go back where her family was that the ghetto was liquidated. After that day October 4, 1942, she never saw her family again. She had to find a new place to

In the 1850’s there was a mass immigration to America from Germany (CN). At that time Germany was beginning to industrialize (CN), causing a uptick in unemployment among farmers. Most germans came to America looking for economic opportunity, landing in New York (Barkin). The journey to America wasn’t easy, most Germans were too poor for first or second class tickets, so during their journey they lived in

“More than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death in the United States are probably

Earlier research revealed that in 1905 German ethnicity was 26 percent of the national population. By 1920, census reports of German ethnicities were significantly less. Historian La Vern J. Rippley, author of the essay Ameliorated Americanization: The Effect of World War I on German-Americans in the 1920’s, argues this drop was due to stigmas and shyness among German-Americans in reporting nation of birth. While, Bonds of Loyalty: German-Americans and World War I author, Frederick C. Luebke agrees with Rippley’s immigrant population percentages he further explains, “Like all immigrant groups, the Germans tended to settle among others of their kind. …in 1910, more than 85 percent resided in the Mid Atlantic states and in the Midwest.” Describing later settlement patterns, during the 1870s and 80s, following kinsfolk to farming communities in the Great Plains and Midwest. And in early post war years altered their German names or adopted more English sounding

Horemheb and Tey killed king tut because they wanted to rule Egypt.Horemheb erased king tut and Aye’s names from monuments and took credit for their work.

The journey to the United States and Iowa was a tough one for both families. They did not know others around them and had a difficult time interacting with the people around them due to language and cultural barriers. As the Nazi’s came into power, both families started to experience harder times due to their German heritage. The pending war, caused many Americans to mistreat and call both families Nazi’s. Being one of the few German families in this exceptionally small town, both families became close friends. They were able

Nihan Kurt is a Turkish immigrant who came in 2000 at the age of twenty-nine alone. Growing up, Nihan lived Gaziantep, a city in Turkey. When Nihan came to America, the first thing she learned to do was to drive and to be a babysitter.

German and Irish immigrants made up two of the largest immigrant groups in the 19th century. The immigration experience of the Germans and Irish shown through Ironweed, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Hold Dear, As Always Jette, Immigrant Voices, and Second Fatherland displayed several similarities and differences between each group’s immigration experience. The Germans and Irish similarly went through Americanization by living in communities made up of their own ethnic group. Also, the role of women was similar in both communities; women took care of the children and maintained the house. They both faced serious disease in both of their communities and were not considered American until later on. However, there were many ways that the German

The story is about a recently married Lithuanian couple – Jurgis and Ona, and their ten other siblings who all come to America, as immigrants, in search of the “American Dream,” the advertisement by which America sells itself as the land of freedom and opportunity, and a better life. They find themselves in a town of Chicago infamously known as Packingtown, home of the stockyards.

Hildegard of Bingen was born on September 17, 1098 in Bemersheim, West Franconia (now Germany), into a noble family. By the age 8, her parents sent her to a 400-year-old Benedictine monastery, which had just recently added a section for women. A noblewoman and resident there, Jutta, became the mentor of young Hildengard. Jutta taught Hildegard how to read and write.

was born on November 17, 1975 in his father's manor in South Africa. The only

When traveling abroad to Belgium, it was my personal mission to visit some of the most historic cities in history. July 27, 1128, Bruege received its city charter and became known as the “Golden Inlet”. At that time, new walls and canals were built and in 1809 Bruege became the capital of County Flanders. Although connection to the sea was not direct, rather through a damme, many of its structure remains the same to this day. Bruege structures are breathtaking, traditionall sites are mesmorizing, and the food is delicious.

Hans is a passionate, caring man who earns his living as a house painter by day and an accordion player by night. Liesel believes his eyes show kindness, and is closer to him from the beginning than to her foster mother. He is one of a few in their village who is not a registered member of the Nazi party, which comes to have serious repercussions on the family as the book progresses. Rosa Hubermann is a stern, strong woman who looks like a “wardrobe with a coat thrown over it” and would be “cute,” but appears perpetually annoyed. She peppers her language with epithets like “Saumensch” and “Saukerl” and “Arschloch”. “Sau” refers to “pig” and mensch is girl and kerl is man, arschloch sounds pretty close to its English equivalent. From the beginning Liesel is “saumensch,” which at first refers to Rosa’s annoyance at taking this girl in, even though it does mean more money for the family. But by the end, it has become a term of true endearment. Liesel’s best friend in the village is a little boy named Rudy, “the boy next door who was obsessed with the black American athlete Jesse Owens.” Rudy is in love with Liesel and always pesters her for a kiss, which he does finally receive, after some pretty serious turns in the story. He is a simple, almost naïve boy, and would do almost anything for her, including jumping into a nearly