https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb Share ideas, which can be incorporated into themes, and quotes to help organize ideas and support collaboration. en-us 2021-08-16 10:37:00 UTC 2021-08-18 23:24:59 UTC hello@padlet.com seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680319804 2021-08-16 12:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680319804 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680360801 "With this stamp I give permission for her to enter the United States of America."]]> 2021-08-16 13:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680360801 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680361728 2021-08-16 13:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680361728 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680362681 2021-08-16 13:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680362681 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680366610 Rifka is accepted differently throughout the book. For example, Rifka accepted differently based on how she looks and the way she acts. She was accepted and got out of Russia mainly because when she was caught her hair and her accent saved her. This changed when she got ringworm and wasnt allowed to go to america and when she got her hair and she could read and write poems well she was accepted. In the book, Mr fargate says,"Rifka Nebrot,This is a very nice poem." This helped her getting accepted into America because of her writing and reading and speaking skills.Hesse 141]]> 2021-08-16 13:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680366610 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680367482 2021-08-16 13:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680367482 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680367531 “When I think of myself that way, even though we are homeless and our lives are in danger even now, still I believe everything will turn out well.” (Hesse 40)]]> 2021-08-16 13:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680367531 jmkpuyuf https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680368047  "The heavy hanging chains will fall, The walls will crumble at a word; And Freedom greet you in the light, And brothers give back the sword." -Pushkin, Page 129]]> 2021-08-16 13:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680368047 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680369024 Troy F. 
"I didn't want anything to do with him. Nothing. But no one should starve to death, Tovah. Certainly not a little boy." 

"I lifted my plate and slid some of my own food and to his plate."]]> 2021-08-16 13:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680369024 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680369626 "How can I live without Mama and Papa to care for me, to protect me?" -(Hesse 44)]]> 2021-08-16 13:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680369626 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680369677 Rifka is such a brave girl. She set of with her family knowing that death my come to her ,but freedom is more important.]]> 2021-08-16 13:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680369677 lwdurham https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680370418 "In America, no one will take my gifts from me."
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February 25, 1920]]> 2021-08-16 13:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680370418 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680370526 At other times i think i am so glad to be who i am. Rifka Nebrot. Only daughter and youngest child of Ethel and Beryl Nebrot. Baby sister of Isaac and Asher and Nathan and Saul. When i think of myself in that way, even though we are homeless and our lives are in danger, even now, i still believe everything will turn out well." (Hesse 78)]]> 2021-08-16 13:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680370526 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680371361 “Even though we are homeless and our lives are in danger, I still believe things will turn out well. (Letters from Rifka 40)”]]> 2021-08-16 13:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680371361 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680371573 "They are holding me, detaining me on Ellis Island, at the hospital for contagious diseases.They wont let me go to Mama and Papa.They won't let me see them."]]> 2021-08-16 13:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680371573 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680372389 "She took my hand and guided it up to the top of my head. I stretched my hand out, expecting to feel the ringworm sores under my fingertips.
         But I didn't feel ringworm.
         I felt Hair!"
(page:143 paragraphs 12-14)

]]> 2021-08-16 13:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680372389 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680374185 "I leave behind my cousins young and dear; They'll never know the freedom I have known, Or learn as I have learned, that kindness dwells, in hearts that have no fear" ( 140)]]> 2021-08-16 13:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680374185 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680374543 Rifka faces the fact that not everything can go how you want it to go. For example, Rifka was not allowed to go on the steamboat and went to the HIAS where she was separated for her family. Later she was told that Pieter dies and she has to go through the sadness for that day. "No" the doctor said "your daughter cannot join you" (hesse 42) ]]> 2021-08-16 13:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680374543 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680374985 “To leave America without ever having a chance at it, to leave Mama and Papa and all my big brothers when I know how much they need me, I can’t let myself think of it.” ]]> 2021-08-16 13:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680374985 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680375158 "Saul and I both knew the truth. We'd left Berdichev to save his life. Because of this, I might very well lose mine."-(Hesse 153)

]]> 2021-08-16 13:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680375158 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680375451 “She does not stay because she is comfortable and safe like you and Hannah and Avrum.Bubbe Ruth stays because she is afraid to leave,afraid for things to change.I am afraid too, but not so afraid that I want to come back.” (Heese 32)]]> 2021-08-16 13:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680375451 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680375779 "I'm too tired, Tovah, too tired for all this trouble. At this moment I wish I had never left Berdichev." (Hesse 88)]]> 2021-08-16 13:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680375779 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680376018 2021-08-16 13:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680376018 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680376080 "This was the courage of my papa, but how could he ever think i have such courage? courage or not, all my family, only i could stand before the Russian soldiers... Only i could pass as a Russian peasant." (Hesse 8)]]> 2021-08-16 13:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680376080 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680376470 How do you thank people for such kindness? I never knew strangers could be so kind.]]> 2021-08-16 13:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680376470 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680377839 Troy F.

"I never knew strangers could be so kind. Do you think my brothers Asher and Reuben and Issac would have done as much. I hope so. pg. 65]]> 2021-08-16 13:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680377839 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680378222 "What does this mean? Social responsibility?" I asked. "It means the American government is afraid they will have to support you for the of your life," the lady from the HIAS said."Your lack of hair makes you an undesirable immigrant. They think without hair you will never find a husband to take care of you and so they will have to take care of you instead".]]> 2021-08-16 13:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680378222 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680378811 "But Rifka must stay until her ringworm heals.
To leave a child of twelve?"(pg. 48) Rifka must have had bravery to stay at Belgium without her family in this new world that she does not know.]]> 2021-08-16 13:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680378811 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680380176 “I tried to speak , to say I would not die , that nothing would hold me back from America.....Papa begged for him to let us stay. “I promise to care for her,” he said.” (Heese 23)]]> 2021-08-16 13:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680380176 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680380829 " I'm too tired, Tovah, too tired for all this trouble. At this moment I wish I had never left Berdichev." Pg 88]]> 2021-08-16 13:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680380829 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680381118 "When I went outside to see what it was I found all the passengers gathered on one side of the ship, looking up. They were looking at Miss Liberty,Tovah, a great statue of a woman standing in the middle of the harbor. She was lifting a lamp to light the way for us."
91]]> 2021-08-16 13:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680381118 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680381209 “Mama said “You don’t understand. She must go to America.” “She can’t.” the doctor answered. She has a skin disease, ringworm.”  ]]> 2021-08-16 13:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680381209 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680382034 "P.S. As I was finishing this letter a cry went up from the deck. When I went out to see what it was, I found all the passengers gathered on one side of the ship, looking up. They were looking at  Miss Liberty, Tovah, a great statue of a woman standing in the middle of the harbor. She was lifting a lamp to light the way for us." (Hesse 91)]]> 2021-08-16 13:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680382034 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680382370 "I have never been in another country before, not even in another village." "In my sleep, I had clawed at my chest until it bled." "It is odd to see Mama and Papa and Nathan so changed." "How can I live without Mama and Papa to care for me, to protect me?" (Hesse 20)]]> 2021-08-16 13:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680382370 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680382457 Troy F. 

"I am too tired, Tovah, too tired for all this trouble. At this moment I wish I had never left Berdichev."]]> 2021-08-16 13:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680382457 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680383329 Her identity might seem a little concerning, with no hair, but with her intelligence and smarts she belongs in America.In the book,"Letters from Rifka", Mr.Fargate says,"This is a very nice poem." Not only does she write well, but she speaks well in multiple languages even with her identity raising many questions. Hesse 141]]> 2021-08-16 13:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680383329 seiberlingge https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680384674 “Sister Katrina tells me I am clever because I learn Flemish so easily. I thought you would like that, Tovah, that someone thinks I am clever. “Really it is not so clever.” I tell her.”...”Oh Tovah, if I ever needed to be clever, it was now.”...”You didn’t know I would turn out to be a poet, did you, Tovah. Is that being clever?’...”A clever girl like me, Tovah, how else should I enter America?” (Hesse 57,125,137,144)]]> 2021-08-16 13:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680384674 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680384841 "Courage or not, of all of my family, only I could stand before the Russian soldiers, because of my blond hair and blue eyes." She is showing her bravery by standing up to the Russian soldiers. (Hesse 8)]]> 2021-08-16 13:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680384841 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680385927 "My hair was the only nice thing about me. Still, I am trying to remember your advice, Tovah, to rely on my wits and not my looks."]]> 2021-08-16 13:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680385927 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680385960 "They think without hair you will never find a husband to take care of you and so they will have to take care of you instead."]]> 2021-08-16 13:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680385960 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680387649 "And thoughts stir bravely in my head, and rhymes
Run fourth to meet them on light feet, and fingers reach for the pen" -Pushkin Pg 89]]> 2021-08-16 13:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680387649 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680387836 " "King Street?" he asked. "Come." The milkman clicked softly to his horse." (Hesse 62) Rifka wasn't defined here by who she was, as she spoke both Flemish and Yiddish to him. The milkman decided to help her get back home anyways. ]]> 2021-08-16 13:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680387836 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680389067 Troy F. 

I almost died at sea during a great storm. But I am alive. Not everyone had my luck though. But I am alive. pg. 81]]> 2021-08-16 13:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680389067 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680390646 "... In hope, in torment,we are turning Toward freedom, waiting her command..." -Pushkin (pg.33)]]> 2021-08-16 13:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680390646 jamcgee3 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680391690 (page 71 paragraph 1) "I am going to America! The nun, Sister Katrina, says my ringworm is completely cured, and the doctor signed my papers."]]> 2021-08-16 13:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680391690 jamcgee3 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680393588 "She took my hand and guided it up to the top of my head. I stretched my hand out, expecting to feel the ringworm sores under my fingertips.
         But I didn't feel ringworm.
         I felt Hair!"
(page:143 paragraphs 12-14)

]]> 2021-08-16 13:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680393588 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680394155 "What you ask is impossible.The child cannot go."
43]]> 2021-08-16 13:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680394155 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680394161 2021-08-16 13:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680394161 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680394677 Her relatives sacrificed so much time and money from working just to send her money for Rifka to get back home safely without ringworm. In the book, "Letters from Rifka", the HIAS lady says,"If your mama goes to America, she can work and make money for the family." This money would mostly go to Rifka and helping her get home safely and in good conditions. This is how their family had to sacrifice for her.]]> 2021-08-16 13:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680394677 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680395956 "With freedom's seed the desert sowing, I walked before the morning star..." -Pushkin]]> 2021-08-16 13:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680395956 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680397594      Many Russians sought to drive Jews from the country permanently by making their lives wretched. In the Russian Army, Jewish boys were assigned the least desirable tasks.
Often, if they survived the perils of their assignments, if they survived their inadequate provisions supplied them, they were just tortured or killed by their own comrades, the non-jewish soldier they served beside.
This climate drove thousands and thousand of families from there homelands-not just Jews, but many others as well. In search of a better life those families sought sanctuary in countries across the globe. We today are the beneficiaries of their legacy of courage and determination. (Hesse pg.148, the page in front of questions for the author)]]> 2021-08-16 13:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680397594 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680398213 Troy F.

"Mr. Fargate lifted the stamp that permitted Ilya from entering the country and thumped it down on Ilya's papers. He was going to america." pg. 137 ]]> 2021-08-16 13:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680398213 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680398301 "Antwerp is a wonderful city. The people are so kind and generous, even the children.
I play with them in the park outside my room. Gizelle is the name of the girl who reminds me of Hannah. She really isn't like Hannah at all, now that I've come to know her. She is more practical and solid than Hannah. She brings her ball to the park and we play catch. I have learned many bouncing rhymes though I don't always understand what I am singing. The children laugh at my accent, but not in a cruel way." (Hesse 66)]]> 2021-08-16 13:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680398301 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680400121 " In Russia, all America meant to me was excitement, adventure. Now, coming to America means so much more. It is simply not a place you go when you run away. America is a place to begin new." (Hesse 90-91)]]> 2021-08-16 13:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680400121 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680402001 "He said everything they earned they sent to me in Belgium.My dear family how much they had given up for me."]]> 2021-08-16 13:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1680402001 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1682068612 2021-08-17 12:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1682068612 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1682087721 "Never mind the trouble my sister Rifka is going to enter America in style."]]> 2021-08-17 12:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1682087721 https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1682120630 "I hope they bring to you the comfort they brought to me.I send you my love, Tovah. At last I send you my love from America."]]> 2021-08-17 13:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/seiberlingge/oxdk4zpyqczdaogb/wish/1682120630