The sources I have experienced (The Pianist, and the Oprah interview with Elie Weisel) have made me connect a common theme. The theme being that we learn about the Holocaust, to make sure it is never repeated and never happens again. I see why they wanted to stop the assignment, not only because it was wrong, but because it was teaching students that it's normal that it happened. Genocides are still happening throughout the world and making this assignment is treating the situation as if it happened and never will again.

Something I learned about the Holocaust is just how brutal and callous the actions of the Nazis were. I knew it was awful and many died but I didn't really grasp that until I watched the movie the Pianist and watched Elie Wiesel's interview. What the Pianist showed was disturbing and did a great job at putting an image to the horrors that happened. The interview really stuck with me as well, just hearing how he spoke of his past and of the things he saw. It really made the whole standing up against the debate thing that Cade and Logan did make sense because looking in the past you can see how the little things lead to the whole Holocaust and death of millions, so simply an assignment given could lead to a rise of anti-semitism.

In the last few weeks I have gained plenty of knowledge about this topic. The Holocaust. From the Movie "The Pianist" to the Elie Wiesel interview I realized it connects to "The assignment" and Logan and Cades mission to halt the assignment. Logan and Cade's perspective on the assignment shows how even today people are effected by the terrible ideas of the Holocaust and how it still remains today. Their mission to halt the assignment helps readers to understand that mass genocides like the Holocaust still go on today. So the teachers are treating the assignment like nothing is wrong with mass genocide.

victims had to suffer through.

The also holocaust caused many future generations to have hate/resentment towards Jews and their religion. It is still present today and in the book. Many people made fun of Jews and even supported the Nazis by saluting them and making racist remarks. In the pianist much of the German population was very racist to the Jewish population. Logan and Cades viewpoint is evolving because at the beginning of the book, they went against the assignment because they knew it was wrong. Now they are going against teachers, students, and people online because of their opinions on the assignment. Logan and Cade want to teach everyone about why the assignment and the holocaust is wrong.

Specific issues that I have learned about the Holocaust that connects to Logan and Cade's mission is the issues of the holocaust and how horrific it was. In the film "The Pianist" it shows many sences in which people are killed or serverly hurt for no reason. This made me develope a better understanding of how tramatic this really was for the Jews and their families. Logan and Cade both think that this needs to be respected and there needs to be boundaries for what is said about this event that took place.

The author made me question if I was really standing up enough for myself and for others. She made me ask myself if I was standing on truth and if I was willing to risk my reputation to do what is right.

I have learned that in the concentration camps people were lead into the gas chamber by the guards saying that they were going to the showers. The people had no clue where they were going, when they were forced onto the cattle cars or into the chambers they didn't know were they were being taken. Thats why Logan and Cade knew they couldn't go through with the assignments, because the holocaust was mass genocide but unavoidable. In The Pianist we saugh the laws they put in effect against the jewish population. There was no escaping those laws. Cades viewpoint has definitely changed the most now realizing that his grandfather didn't help his jewish friend escape it, he was the jewish friend that escaped it.

numbers of Jews but they also moved them into Ghettos,

Shaved their hair, Took there belongings from them and

took everything they had to dehumanize them because they

disliked Jews to that extent but it really makes me think about how

terrible the Nazis really were.

In "The Pianist" there were multiple scenes that have made me realize why Cade and Logan are taking this very seriously more than before. For example, when the Nazis went into the family's home that were suspected to be smuggling luxuries, and asked the handicapped man to stand up, and when he physically couldn't, they threw him over the railing. Immediately after, the Nazis had no remorse, killed more people, and then ran them over. Although, in "The Assignment" the same Nazis that were so careless and brutal, Mr. Bartley expected them to not only be put in their shoes, but to justify their actions because they were "brainwashed". We are taught this many times to learn the horrors and understand why genocide is unacceptable and rude. Liza Weimer wrote this book to help us understand that people around the world today clearly don't understand why The Holocaust was a critical event in history.

After learning more about the Holocaust, it has made me realize why Cade and Logan are so upset with the assignment. Before the Holocaust there was around 3.5 million Jews, when it ended there were only around 250,000. While visiting Auschwitz, Wiesel explained how while he was at the camps he could smell the burning human flesh. Through The Pianist and The Oprah, it has taught me how morally wrong the Nazis thought process was. The Jews who went through the death camps and survived will never be the same and they lost everything they had. To know that this is still present today is horrifying. After visually seeing how brutal and cruel the Nazis were to the innocent Jews is sickening.

Liza Wiemer made us think about standing up. She left us saying, would you be an upstander? She didn't talk to us much about the history of the Holocaust more so she talked about standing up for what is right. I feel like this was a challenge to answer because its a hard question not knowing the situation. I feel as if I would typically stand up for something not right, but when in the situation, I might back off. I think she asked us this question because she wanted to get us thinking. There are wrong things happening around us daily, and she was getting us to think "is this right?".

I think that there was many reasons Logan and Cade or anyone really would see this assignment as wrong and unfair. During the Holocaust, Jew's would be sent to ghettos, forced to leave their homes. Germans as well would freely murder any Jew's they saw as unfit or just because of a made up rumour they discovered, we saw this in the film The Pianist. In the interview with Elie Wiesel we get to see the camp Auschwitz that over 5.5 million Jews were murdered and held in, thinking they would be returning home. With all these terrible acts and so many more, we can understand why Logan and Cade didn't want to participate in an assignment involved acting as a Nazi. Liza Wiemer really helped us understand too that so many of these assignments are being given around the world, and so little truly know about it.

Liza Wiemers visit and presentation made me wonder why someone would think an assignment like that is ok. She stated the word "upstander" or someone who stands up for onseselves. I dont think many people would be able to what Logan and Cade did which makes this story so remarkable.

Some specific things that I have learned about the Holocaust that I can relate back to Cade and Logan is how big the impact of the Holocaust really is, after watching the interview with Elie Wiesel it really showed how it can affect someone, for example when Wiesel was walking in the building that he slept in he had sorrow and remorse in his eyes and his body language made it look like he didnt ever want to go back. So Logan and Cade didnt just want to stop it because its a heavy topic they wanted to stop it because it could really affect someone or bring back memories or stories that person got told, and im sure no one would want to be uncomfortable doing a school project.

After the author of "The Assignment" Liza Wiemer came in to speak I've been aware of more things. Such as judging people before getting to know their story and how it affected them. She talked about how people are how they are for a reason and everyone is perfect just the way you are made. This in-courged me to think about what other have been through and how I can help support them instead of misjudging them for how they act or look.

I now understand that from both perspectives (the pianist & the Oprah interview with Elie Weisel). I'm very shocked at how brutal this was, mostly because of how they treated the Jews. The Holocaust was a terrible event that happened during World War II. It was when millions of innocent people, mostly Jews, were treated horribly and killed by the Nazis. Learning about it has made me realize why Logan and Cade might want to stop "The Assignment." They probably want to make sure that the book doesn't portray the Holocaust in a wrong or disrespectful way. It's important to understand the seriousness of the Holocaust and why it's very important to not imitate this historical event.

Based on the sources I have learned from. Not only is the Holocaust terrible, but giving a one-sided argument in favor of the Holocaust is absurd. Elie Wiesel in his interview with Oprah, talks a lot about the horrors that went down at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. And to give students an assignment to argue in favor of the mass genocide of over 11 million people with the end goal to 1. erase all Jewish people, and 2. to create the "Aryan race," is completely outrageous and outlandish.

When Liza Wiemer showed up to our classroom last week, I knew some things about her book and had somewhat of an idea of what her message was supposed to be. When we left to go to lunch that same day I realized much more about what Mrs. Wiemer was trying to get at in her book. I believed Mrs. Wiemer was trying to show the damage the school was doing in giving students that assignment. Not only was she doing that, but she also wanted to urge people to stand up for what is right. And also to know your place, and to not give other people power over your life.

Some of the things I have learned about the Holocaust is that every experience for a human being was different. Everything was brutal, but had also destroyed many things. While watching the interview with Oprah and Elie, and watching the movie The Pianist, it had opened my eyes even more, and I really saw how disturbing the war was, or the way it had completely affected Elie's life. I can now see why Cade and Logan are trying to remove this assignment, even more than I had already seen. This assignment/topic is still given or talked about these days, and is showing up more and more everyday. Cade and Logan don't want history to repeat its self.

At first, I knew that the living conditions were bad but I didn't know they were this bad, ( Oprah interview with Ellie Wisel) Cade and Logan had extreme opinions on the assignment, but when Cade found out he was Jewish his view of the assignment changed. But in Oprah's interview and the film Jews were told they were getting to shower but thats what the Nazis said to trick them the "showers" was just a gas chamber.

Liza Wiemers visit and presentation gave me a lot of new information. I never thought that something like the assignment would actually affect the students in the book and irl. But she gave lots of evidence that showed how it affected these students, some of them even having racist thoughts against the Jewish population. She showed us why she needed to make the book and why the holocaust is still extremely relevant today and how it affects everyone around the world.

The past couple of weeks have taught me much more about the holocaust and the Nazis' horrible ideals. The movie "The Pianist" got me thinking about the assignment Cade and Logan have to do. They would have to argue for the Nazis however, in no world should someone have to argue for genocide. The holocaust was a very disgusting thing that the Germans did and we should learn to never recreate it again.

Something I learned about the Holocaust is how brutal the Nazis actions where towards the Jews. I knew this period was horrifying but the movies we watched in class helped me take it in. This connects to the "Assignment" because it show Cades and Logans perspective on how awful of a time it was. This just shows that the Holocaust has strongly impacted history and it is still being talked about all throughout the world today.

The Holocaust was a dramatic display of dehumanization. Millions lost their lives due to abuse of power, corruption and racism. Elie Wiesel, who personally experienced the inhumane acts of Nazis recalls his life in the largest death camp during the Holocaust. Aushuitz. This death camp dramatically displayed the true unjustifiable actions taken by supporters of the Nazi regime. Oprah's interview with Elie showed me how terrible the Holocaust really was and how it shouldn't be taken lightly. In Liza Wiemer's book "The Assignment", a theme appears in which acts of injustice are shown, through higher powers like Mr.Bartley or in the Holocaust Adolf Hitler. Through this theme, I've seen how power was and is used to brainwash, hurt, and destroy the independent thoughts and feelings of those affected. In the movie " The Pianist", these corrupt powers show their hypocrisy, pointing fingers and blaming others for doing unthinkable things just because of being certain race, religion or belief.

A fact about the Holocaust that makes me understand why Cade and Logan are so determined to get rid of the assignment is the little to no regard for human life that the Nazis portrayed. In the Movie The Pianist there is a part where an SS officer throws out an old man in a wheelchair from a multi-story building. They also shot people who were out past curfew and ran over an injured Jew on the road. On his visit back to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel told Oprah about a living baby that was thrown into a furnace. He also told about how 2-3 people would sleep on a bunk at a time with no mattresses. It would be ludicrous to support and justify the Nazis. And I learned the horrible things that humans can do to other humans based on their differences and racism.

Liza Wiemer really made me think about things that have happened in my life and if I would change what I did or take back how I acted, my actions. If I would've stood up more for myself or someone else more then I did, if that could've changed the whole situation entirely. She helped me understand that standing up for someone or something can truly change the whole situation.

An event that was very important to the Holocaust would be the use of Auschwitz. In Elie Weisel's interview, he describes Auschwitz as a grave site where countless lives were taken and such inhumane treatment was given. After learning all about the cruel actions that Jewish people had to go through I can better understand Logan and Cade's feelings towards the assignment that was given to them and how wrong it is of their teacher to ask them to even for educational purposes to support what the Nazis did to Jewish people.

Helped me Grasp the Connection between the Interview

and the Assignment And the connection between those two

is very strong and harsh but it really helps me see all the reason Cade

and Logan said No we are not doing this assignment because of the Horrific

conditions that Jews had to endure during this period of time and it also shows

how people will stand up for what is right and what is wrong it gives the reader a

very dense and deep feelign knowing that this happened.

For me specifically, after learning about how those who didn't & did get taken lived i started to see why Logan & Cade reacted the way they did. Just because it happens a lot, doesn't make it alright to justify the event. The movie "The Pianist" gives a very good example on how Jews that hid were forced to survive. The interview between Oprah & Elie Wiesel showed how those who lived in concentration camps had to live, from firsthand experience ,it was so much worse than those who weren't in camps, and they still had it bad. If anyone who was or is close to a person who went through this event found out about this assignment they would probably be enraged. While the assignment may be educational that doesn't make it right, not in the least.

The Holocaust was the most devastating event in history. Over a million Jews were killed from 1933-1945. Hitler and the Nazis believed that the Jews were at blame for losing WWI, this is what started the Holocaust. There weren´t many survivors from the Holocaust. Often women and children would be taken straight from the trains to gas chambers, they would be told they would be showering but instead they would be killed within 15 minutes. The Nazis treated the Jews like animals to make them feel less than, they would tattoo their arms with a number and would refer to them as that number in the death camps. Nazi doctors would use Jews to experiment to see how humans would be affected by certain medicines or gases. Most of the time, babies and extremely young children would be killed right way, very few survived the Holocaust. Many Jews would see other Jews get murdered, mostly men, because the Nazis didn´t like what they were doing or they didn´t do it fast enough. These awful things help to see why Logan and Cade took matters into their own hands and stood up for what was right.

When Liza Wiemer had came to speak about the novel The Assignment, it made me think so much deeper into this topic. I start to questions if we are standing up enough for others or myself as we should be doing. But also makes me wonder what I have stood up for, or what I could have done differently.

Liza made me think about what the Jews went through, not only including the Nazis but the community around them. When she judged some people as a demonstration, it made me wonder how outcasted they really felt in their society or in the place they call home. For a long time, Hitler constantly put out more Laws to make Jews be left out or more odd. If the face of one person affects someone so much, I wonder how they were impacted when it felt like everyone around them that wasn't Jewish as well, were constantly judging them.

Liza Wiemers had perfect points about what she said. She made me think about not how the book's characters were based on people, but the two real students assigned this. She also made me feel that not enough people are upstanders, not because they don't want to be upstanders but because people get nervous or scared about how others around them will think of them.

After listening to Liza Wiemer it made realize that we don't just have to sit back and watch. Her talk to us made me reflect on my daily choices and how they impact others. It made me think about how what you think could be a small, or big act, could influence someone. Thinking about today, where genocide still happens, and not just that but smaller acts like bullying makes me wonder how we can change that and stand up for what's right, not just for yourself but for other people too. It has impacted my thoughts to do what is ethically and morally right.

I had learned that the concentration and work camps were not the only form of death and punishment. The Final Solution, the Wannsee Conference, was to create death camps; if you were not fit to work, then you would be sent to your death. They would not see what probable potential that there was, there was no seeing if they were able to do anything. I immediately understood why Cade and Logan were so against this assignment; and it was not just for this reason alone. One thing I could not get off my mind was the fact that they weren't even seen as humans. Jews were labeled as numbers in concentration and death camps. The Nazi's saw it as though they were kiling things; not humans. Things; objects; ones that they thought didn't belong. And it was not just Jews that they were killing, there were those who opposed Hitler and the Nazis, those who weren't useful to work with their bodies as well as others; they were also murdered. I respect Logan and Cade so much and they have so many of the right reasons of why they oppose this assignment.

When Liza Wiemer came to visit us and speak to us I thought it was going to be pretty boring. However, she actually taught me a lot and it all connected with the book. For instance, she talked about how everyone has a voice and that you shouldn't be afraid to speak up. Logan and Cade were very courageous in speaking up against the assignment that Mr. Bartley gave them. They could have just sat there and sucked it up but they knew that the assignment was wrong and decided to do something about it.

In Liza Wiemer's book "The Assignment", made me realize how people with high authority can use their power to undermine the opinions of others just because they don't agree with what they have to say. I think this book displays how standing up for others is the right thing to do even if it's scary or if you get ignored. Cade and Logan both have personal experiences with family members who have been involved in the Holocaust in some way and that's what makes their stories so tethered to the idea of correcting people or things that are insensitive to the lives and stories of those who have been through such a traumatic event.

Liza Wiemer made me feel grateful about being alive in the 21st century in the United States. She made me think about the importance of being an upstander and not just about the Holocaust but about anything that is unjust to any people or group of people. She also shed light on the awful ways anti semitism is spread today.

During the author visit Mrs. Wiesel was challenging not only our thinking but the way we live our life too. She wanted everyone to realize, even though something may seem small in the moment, it could make a monumental change in other people's lives. Instead of sitting around and letting the wind take you through throughout life, you have to not only try new things but bring people along with you. She also challenged us to stick up for what's right. If we see an injustice in the world, stand up for that person no matter how much it might embarrass you.

Liza Wiemers visit and presentation was about how its good to be an unpstander but also how theres not a lot of people who are willing to be one. She basically told us that we should do whats right and think about the decisions we make and if they make someone happy or they do a good thing then do it but if your decision ends up with someone hurt or a bad thing then maybe think about it before actually doing it.

Liza Wiemers visit and presentation helped us to think about the choices and decisions we make in life and how we need to stand up to what we believe is right. Her visit also made me think and wonder why that assignment was even assigned and what was the lesson the kids were going to learn about it.

The issue that Cade and Logan might have thought was wrong with the assignment is it is about honoring the people who sadly died in this horrific event and it is happening all around the world. What I learned are the brutal ideas and actions that they did to get to where they wanted to be how they did this horrific event how it happens every minute of the day and how we´re privileged to get this education because we are in a safe area and I have family that didn´t get the same education as me because they grew up in a less protected environment and hard driven with education. What shocked me after rewatching the Pianist was how the treatment was so brutal and how mental this event was.

I learned so much from Liza Wiemer. She talked about how to be an upstander, how to stand up for what is right. There are so many things she had discussed and there were so many things that were heartfelt that she said. One thing that I was very appreciative about was how she was willing to answer questions after the discussion. She had said things about confronting what is wrong and I had taken that advice and used it; it turned out for the better. She was extremely helpful I felt that it was some of the best I have ever heard.

All of the resources that we have looked at, (¨The Pianist¨, Elie Wiesel´s interview with Oprah, and ¨The Assignment¨), are very helpful to teach us a better understanding of the lifestyle of Jews and everything that went on during the Holocaust. In ¨The Pianist¨ this really shows how hard it was to live a ¨normal life,¨ even for some soldiers. During Wiesel´s interview you could see in the way he was looking at things and the way he was talking about things that it still had a huge impact on him. Even Oprah who had never even experienced anything like this was having a hard time grasping what went on during the Holocaust. In ¨The Assignment¨ Logan and Cade immediately

The Pianist and The Interview with Oprah and Elie Wiesel. I was able to learn more about the Holocaust from these two sources. The movie and the Interview connect with the book "The Assignment". All of these sources give information about the Holocaust and why it was such a horrible thing to have happened. When this assignment is assigned to Logan and Cade they are appalled, their thoughts of why was this even assigned? How it wasn't appropriate for students to be completing an assignment like this? The Pianist and The Interview made me think of how this connection to how Logan and Cade felt and why they had the idea of stopping this. Their feelings are very strong and stand up and saying what's right. These types of assignments are still assigned to this day all around the world, and have major impacts on many students.

The book, The Assignment, is a very interesting book to read but it is hard because I could never imagine what the Jewish population had to go through. Some of the things that have stuck out to me is that Logan immediately knew that this particular assignment was very wrong in many different ways. Mr. Bartley is giving an assignment about The Wannsee Conference, he only gives them the side to support the Nazis in what they were doing. Also, another thing that stood out to me is when Logan and Cade go to Mr. Bartley and he doesn´t really care for what they have to say, he just says that the assignment will make the uncomfortable which is a good thing. After this, they went to the principal and talked to hims about the assignment. Lastly, it was horrible the way Logan and Cade were treated for sticking up for what is right. They were treated poorly because they wanted to change the assignment, this assignment is wrong and they noticed that and decided to say something.

My thought about Liza Wiemers visit was I was able to learn so much more from her and more about how this has impacted everyone. During and after this visit made me think differently, the questions she asked us to think about. Liza made us think differently in the right way, she made us realize that you are capable of doing the right thing and standing up to what is wrong is okay. Many may think if something is wrong you're not allowed to speak up, or some are afraid of getting judged or being thought of differently. Liza was able to change our thoughts and impact our ways of thinking to not be afraid to do what's right.

After Liza Wiemer came I realized that this book is more than just feeling uncomfortable about in assignment. These kids stood up for themselves and really put themselves out there. They got a lot of hate after but they were in it together and did the right thing.

From studying the Holocaust, it has made me realize how brutal the control of Europe by the Nazis was. They did horrible things to dehumanize the Jewish population which Logan and Cade know about and they are not fond of. They are on a mission to halt "the assignment" because of the gas chambers, used to exterminate thousands of Jews per day, concentration camps, where many Jews would live the last months of their lives in horror and being tortured, and the fact that the Zazis dehumanized an innocent group of people just based on their religion. The assignment is immoral and it is very disrespectful to the Jews.

Liza Wiemer's presentation was very interesting and made us think about being an upstander. She talked about standing up when we think something is not right. She left us with the question "Would you be an upstander?" This question could have a lot of different answers and it depends on the situation. I would like to say that I always stand up when something is wrong, but I usually will back down. Liza wrote this book to help young adults feel more comfortable standing up for what is right and also how the Holocaust was a terrible point in history for millions of people.