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Inside this weeks issue: The Beginning By Chris Bird The Beginning Nazis rose to power under Hitler's control, The story of Elie P.2 The extermi- and began to over- started exterminating Wiesel nation of over all Jews that they 200,000 Jews began KawValley could find and tak- Anne Frank’s Story P.2 with a simple army ing them to con- corporal named Adolf throw the German centration camps Dr. Zygmunt P.3 Hitler. As World War government. The Na- such as Treblinka Klukowski 1 came to a close zis leader was none and Auschwitz. After with Germany on the other than Adolf Hit- this Germany began Dr. Crawford P.3 losing side, their ler. its invasion of country became hu- After the Wei- and taking all of their miliated and very mar Republic (the Jews to concentra- Events of the War P.4 poor. The Treaty of German government) tion camps. This Versailles, which was lost control of its made them believe intended to heal the country, the Nazis that they could con- wounds of the war, began preaching quer all of Europe. only made it worse and teaching their As a other countries for Germany. With beliefs. Their main began stepping in to the German Govern- belief was something stop Germany's reign ment in ruins and a called anti-Semitism, of terror, world war- lack of police officers which means hatred fare began. a group called the of Jews. Germany www.Holocaustrevea Special points of inter- est: • If you would like to find Editorial By Natalie Garretson out about the different event in the war turn to Editorial thousands of people a day of the Events of the War. were dying and we just stood million of people the died • Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski is Everyone now back and watched. The Nazi’s would an eyewitness to WWII knows were very wrong and cold still be here today. that the mistreatment of the hearted, but at the same time • Dr. Crawford is another Jews started in 1933. So why so was the United States. Your Editor, eyewitness to the Holo- did it take until 1941 to enter No, we did not do the killing, Natalie Garretson caust the war? Why did it take but the United States • Adolf and the Allies did let it go on Hitler to declare war on us to for 8 years which was just get us involved in the war? In as wrong. Maybe if we had my opinion that is wrong, entered the war sooner some Page 2 The Holocaust Revealed

Elie Wiesel By Tanya Cooper Elie Wiesel He never saw them agian. writing for newspapers in born: September 30,1928 He was still with his father France By Tanya Cooper though, but one year later and Israel. his father died from You can read his Elie was born in the town dysentery, starvation, ex- Yiddish book that he wrote of Sighet in haustion, and exposure. in 1955. It is 900 pages long Transylvania. He spoke Elie was forced to and is titled "Un die welt Yiddish. He was also very move from camp to camp hot geshvign” religous. He said, "I spent on foot, or on cattle cars, in ( And the World Kept most of my time talking driving snow, without food, Silent) to God more than to people. proper shoes, or clothing. He was my partner, my After the war Wie- friend, myking, my sover- sel went to France where he http:// eign, and I was so crazily found out that his two older www.achievement.org/ religous that nothing else sisters survived. Elie started autodoc/page/wieObio-1 mattered." learning the French lan- Elie was 15 when guage and quickly mastered the nazis arrived in it. he Sighet in 1944. He was sent also studied philosophy at to the concentration camp the Sorbonne. He also be- called Auschwitz. Not long came after he arrived there he a choir master and a teacher “….the was seperated with his of Hebrew. He became a personification of the mother and younger sister. professional journalist, devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the

By Cole Cook living shape of the Anne Frank Jews” - Adolf Hitler Anne Frank that the Jews were hiding Anne was moved to Bergen- born: June 12, 1929 there. So the police headed Belsen,a concentration By Cole Cook straight to the bookcase camp. The camp was taken that lead to the Secret An- over by Allied troops one Anne Frank was a nex( where she was hiding). month after Anne died. She Jewish teenager Karl Joseph Silber- died of typhus when she who was forced into hiding bauer, an Austrian Nazi was 15. during the holocaust. forced them to give him all You can read more about She, her, her family, and their valuables. Then they Anne Frank in her diary. four others spent 25 were forced into a truck and months, during WWII in taken to the Weteringschans rooms above her father's Prison. Miep Gies gathered www.AnneFrank.com office in Amsterdam, the and saved Anne's Netherlands. diary pages. On August 4, 1944, On August 8, 1944 around 10A.M a Nazi they were moved to policeman and several Westerbork Transit camp. Dutch collaborators They were there for a appeared at 263 Prinsen- month before moved to gracht. They had recieved Auschwitz. In October a phone call telling them 1944, Page 3

Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski By Rachael Froning

Eyewitness sweep the streets, clean the were shot with machine guns. Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski public These are only a cou- Diary of Polish Physician latrines, and fill all the street ple of the days he had written Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski trenches. Everyway were in his diary. Terrible things Dr. Zygrmunt Klu- German notices giving an had happen over kowski was a chief physi- idea of what the future that time. His diary was pub- cian of a small hospital vil- might lished in Poland in 1959 lage of Szcebrzeszyn, be like. We are not allowed shortly before his death and which is south of the city of guns. We must record in our was translated into English. . Here are some of diaries all the contagious Written by: Rachael Froning the things he went through. diseases. The police curfew link: eyewitness Diary of Pol- October 11, 1939 is from 10 P.M. to 5:30 A.M. ish Physician the town February 18, 1940 Dr. Crawford was crowded with Germans He met a woman as an offi- quartered in the larger cial of the Zamoyski estate. houses. Most of the Ger- She came from Chelmno. mans are from He had been receiving Austria and Vienna. The alarming information about Germans are using Jews to the execution of the men- clean up the city. The Jews tally ill. The mentally ill

Dr. Crawford By Nick Self “ ….my first and foremost task will be Eyewitness tured and exechted. He was the annihilation of a P.O.W (prisoner of war) the Jews.” - Adolf Dr. Crawford was in stalag luft. He Hitler 1922 an airforce pilot in WWII visted Dachau shortly after and taken hostage in Hun- his own release. gary. After getting Dr.Crawford lived to see out of his damaged plane. shortly the end of the war. He was mistaken for a Jew, After and was almost killed on the the war he started the Wit- spot. On his dogtag was a ness to Holocaust project, crucifix that saved his life. which begain in 1978. While transfered to a pris- oner of war camp, he wit- written by: Nick Self nessed link: Witness to the Holo- Jewish inmates getting tor- caust

Events of WWII By Bailey Fund The Events of World War 2 In 1933 Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi Party of Germany was declared. the only legal party in Germany. On January 24,1934 Jews were bombed from the Ger-

man labor front. Then a few months later Jews were not al- lowed any national health insurance. Then on August 2, 1934 Hitler became fuehrer meaning ruler. In 1935 on September 15 Nurem- berg Race Laws against Jews against Jews decreed. Then in 1936 the Olympics were held in Thank you for Berlin. In 1937 Jews were banned from all professional occupations. picking this In 1938 a lot of things happened. issue!! Nazi troops occupied the Sudetenland on October 15th. Then on November 9th and 10th The Night of Broken Glass occurred. Then in 1939 Hitler threatened Jews during the Reichstag speech. September 3rd, England and France declare war on Germany. The next day was cut off by the German army. In 1940 Paris was occupied by the Nazis. France signed an armistice with Hit- ler. Nazis invaded Romania. Krakow ghetto sealed off with 70,000 Jews. While Warsaw ghetto sealed off with 400,000 Jews. 1941, Nazis occupy Bulgaria with the Jewish population of 50,000. 3,600 Jews are arrested in Paris on May 4th. Then Nazis invade , on June 22nd. The Final Solution was announced on January 20th, 1942. That same year Heydrich died on June 10th. March 14th, 1943 the Krakow Ghetto is liquidated. July 9th and 10th allies land in Sicily Bialystock Ghetto is also liquated. 1944 This magazine issue was done to show some of the Nazis raid a French home for Jewish chil- horrible things that happened during World War II. dren. In 1945 the Death Marches began. To keep Allie forces from getting to the Jews before they were all annihilated. By Bailey Fund