Segi Goralick Research Paper

Maryusha Antonovksy was no more. In her place stood Mary Antin, the same immigrant Jewish girl but with a new “American” name. Mary had also bought “real American machine-made garments” to replace her “hateful” homemade European-style clothes. “I long to forget,” she said. “It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”

My name is Sammie Spisak. I was born on July 19,1999 in Bridgeport, CT. I grew up in Fairfield, CT and I am the oldest in my family. I have two younger siblings, who are twins named Matt and Molly. They both just started their first year of high school. I have two dogs Georgia and Sophie, both Tibetan Terriers. My mom and dad both grew up in Fairfield. My mom is one of 7 and my dad has a sister. There are five sets of twins on my mom’s side of the family. I am one of 26 cousins.

Anzia Yezierska was born in plonsk in Russia .She immigrated with her family to the United States.She was working during the day at a sweatshop and in the evening she studied English.Than she work teacher for few years.

On December 20, 2000, Zachary Skrabacz most commonly known as “Zack” was born, his arrival came in a Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, in New London CT where he still resides. He lives with his father and mother as well as with his three siblings, which consist of his two sisters Emilia and Alina and his brother Nate. He also has two pets, Vinnie a Yellow Labrador with one full ear and Luna a fat, boring cat with soft paws. He shares a strong bond with his family, yet he holds a special space for his mother and brother who he considers his best friends. On the other hand, Alina and Zack are very much alike not only are their baby pictures similar, but they share similar personalities. Moreover, his parents who play a huge part in his life have

Ethin Svoboda was born May 10th, 2000. His parents are Ann and Lee Svoboda. Ethin was the youngest of 4 children at the time of his birth his siblings at this time included Blake, Kaila, and Brooklyn. But in 2008 his family was introduced to twins named Ayana and Anthony. At a very young age Ethin was a very good Basketball player. I asked him why he liked basketball so much and he said: “I like basketball because it makes me feel good.” Ethin is also a very good student. He says his favorite subject is Fitness, “Because of all of the impressive things you can do with weights.” Because of his success in sports and in school his family and him often go on trips across the country. I asked him what his favorite and least favorite

Anton Sukhiski was a nutty guy that lived in a small wobbly shack outside of town and was considered the “town weirdo”, and people constantly made fun of this “village idiot”, so when the Nazis invaded Poland he was the only one that would help hide other Jews.

Marijana Ruzic was 21-year-old Yugoslavian who lived in Belgrade in an apartment with her mother. For many days a man was asking her to for her assistance. The man was asking her to smuggle drugs like heroin in Canada and Ruzic refused. The man was getting impatient with her and threatened her, that he would kill her and her mother if she did not follow his orders. Ruzic still refused and the man stalked her and that eventually lead to violent assaults. The man who was threatening Ruzic was Mirko Mirkovic. Ruzic finally agreed to smuggle drugs and flew to Canada. When she landed in Toronto, she was arrested. She not only importing two kilograms of heroin, but she also used a fake passport to land in Canada. Ruzic accepted both charges against

On January 31st, 1934 Eva Mozes Kor and her twin sister, Miriam, were born in a small village in Portz, Romania. Alexander and Jaffa were Eva’s parents who also gave birth to Eva’s two other sisters, Edit and Aliz. Eva and Miriam both went to a one-room school for their first 4 years of education (Candles Holocaust Museum). Eva Kor is a survivor and a phenomenal twin who endured all of Dr. Mengele’s experiments and survived the horrors of Auschwitz.

“Coming to the United States alone was huge challenge in my life. I never lived far or alone from my parents they were with me everywhere. I was really scared because I still was little daddy’s girl and I felt like I wasn’t ready to face this huge challenge” said University of West Alabama student-athlete Teona Tatishvili.

Only a few miles from Poland’s second largest cities, Krakow, lies a nearly barren field with only a moderate sized memorial to the thousands of people killed in a brutal act of genocide. Here, between 1941 and 1945, thousands of enemies of the Nazi party, primarily Jews, were worked, starved, died of disease, or were shot. Out of the over 150,000 people sent through Plaszow and its sub-camps, only around 2,000 survived. From its establishment in 1941 to its liquidation in January 1945, thousands of people lost their lives or were sent to their deaths in other camps.

Urszula Kozak was born in Brenna, Poland, a former communist town near the Czech border, in 1976. Surrounded by farms, animals and familial love, Kozak’s childhood was an extraordinary one. At the age of eight, Kozak arrived in Toronto with her family in November of 1984. Canada has since become her

My name was almost James Highway 44 Januszewski after almost being born in a jeep rushing to Seven Rivers Hospital. Unfortunately my parents made it to the hospital and so I received my middle name after my Tio David. I was homeschooled for a short period of time during middle school and during my freshmen year of high school. Thankfully I was accepted into the Health Academy where I excelled in my biomedical class and other honors classes while still making up for my missing freshmen year. The medical field was the first area I was interested in during high school, mainly due to parental and grandparental, my grandfather attended Berkeley University and went through the honors program, pressure to pursue

There were many people and organizations influential with radical revolutionaries that were present during the late 18 hundreds in Russia. One of these radical revolutionaries was Elizaveta Kovalskaia. She was influenced early one in her life, “I was barely six when I became aware that there were landowners and peasant serfs in the world; that landowners could sell people.”# She would grow as a revolutionary seeing the differences between methods of what did and didn’t work. She was very critical of the methods that she believed were ineffective. The other side of this coin is the effective methods that she utilized. The way Kovalskaia presents her experiences argues that her methods as a radical revolutionary were the right ones.

This story tells of the time the crooked roller coaster park tycoon Alexander Zofovich organized the cruelest contest the world had ever seen.
Dr. Zofovich was a twenty-five year old who inherited his deceased father’s fortune, and the family’s roller coaster theme park called “The Land of the Dead”. It was a ghostly haunting themed park with three very fast and thrilling roller coasters and one unused, still in construction, ride. It was rumoured to be the longest and slowest ride ever built in all of the history of rides... and nobody could get out until it had completed the circuit. When this ride was completed the Doctor would create a contest to subject the hardiest of all amusement park lovers to the test of their life.

Dr. Jan Pol, born and raised on a dairy farm in the Netherlands, is not your day - to - day veterinarian. Pol has treated animals since the 1970’s , in Michigan too! Pol has over 20,000 patients. Those patients have ranged from white mice to gigantic 2,600 pound horses. Pol, incredibly, helped deliver a litter of piglets at the age of twelve! Al in all, Pol has gathered a wealth of stories over his almost lifelong career.