Byron Contreras-Frank Blaichman by Byron Contreras https://padlet.com/nb998004474/eggdcds6xihf Made with a dash of wit en-us 2019-04-15 17:06:05 UTC 2019-04-30 17:27:21 UTC hello@padlet.com nb998004474 https://padlet.com/nb998004474/eggdcds6xihf/wish/351738496 2019-04-15 17:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998004474/eggdcds6xihf/wish/351738496 background information nb998004474 https://padlet.com/nb998004474/eggdcds6xihf/wish/351738578 Who, What, When, Where, Why, How...
Born in the small town of Kamionka, Poland, on December 11, 1922, Frank Blaichman was 16 years old when the German army invaded the western and central parts of Poland in September 1939. The Blaichman family were among several hundred Jews living in the town. They were merchants; his grandmother owned a grocery store, and his father made a living buying grain from farmers in the area, selling it in nearby towns and in the city of Lublin. That was about to change.

]]> 2019-04-15 17:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998004474/eggdcds6xihf/wish/351738578 the act of resistance nb998004474 https://padlet.com/nb998004474/eggdcds6xihf/wish/351739814 Young Frank immediately began taking daring risks in an effort to help his parents and his six brothers and sisters survive. The family needed some way to make money, so Blaichman took to the road illegally. Blaichman, who had learned Polish from customers at his grandmother’s store, rode his bicycle from neighboring farms and villages to Lubartow (six miles to the east) and Lublin (12 miles to the south) and began to buy and sell whatever goods he was able to obtain. Passing as a Pole, Frank bought honey, chickens, butter, grains, and meat from the farmers and sold these products in the cities, where he would buy tobacco, yarn, and saccharin to sell back to the farmers. The risks of traveling without papers or the required Star of David armband were enormous, but life for Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland was already precarious.

]]> 2019-04-15 17:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998004474/eggdcds6xihf/wish/351739814 Describe the impact nb998004474 https://padlet.com/nb998004474/eggdcds6xihf/wish/351740118 Within months of the invasion, German officials issued a host of administrative decrees and regulations that were intended to isolate the Jews, deprive them of their livelihoods, and dispossess them of their property and force them to emigrate from the area, which was annexed to Germany. Jews were now required to wear armbands bearing the Star of David. They couldn’t travel outside Kamionka without special permits. They were ordered to turn over any valuables, such as gold and jewelry. Their businesses were confiscated. And they were subject to being captured at random for forced labor. 

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This means that he was a resister and survived the war he fought for his right and for his resistance
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