https://padlet.com/da092500/42 Brenna, Cassie, Daija, Faith, and Emma en-us 2016-04-04 14:29:13 UTC 2026-03-15 03:00:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/brainstorm.jpg br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103912267 "Freed of normal constraints, some of the young let go of their inhibitions and, under the cover of darkness, caressed one another, without any thought of others, alone in the world." page 23]]> 2016-04-04 14:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103912267 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103912451 "Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah." page 7]]> 2016-04-04 14:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103912451 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103912676 "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed." Page 34]]> 2016-04-04 14:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103912676 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103912688 "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me... You'er killing your own father... I have bread... for you too... for you too..." Page 101]]> 2016-04-04 14:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103912688 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103914027 "Instantly, I felt ashamed of myself forever." page 106]]> 2016-04-04 14:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103914027 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103915322 "I didn'thave the strength to run anymore. And my son didn't notice. Thats all i know. Where has he disappeared? Where can I find him? Perhaps you've seen him somewhere?" page 91

]]> 2016-04-04 14:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103915322 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103915520 2016-04-04 14:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103915520 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103916236 "'I can't go on... It's over...' we tried to raise his spirits, but he wouldn't listen to anything we said. He just kept repeating that it was all over for him, that he could no longer fight, he had no more strength, no more faith." page 76]]> 2016-04-04 14:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103916236 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103917032 "'It's over. God is no longer with us.'" page 76]]> 2016-04-04 14:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103917032 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103917367 2016-04-04 14:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103917367 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103917681 "We must do something. We can't let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse. We must revolt. Let the world learn about the existence of Auschwitz. Let everybody find out about it while they still have a chance to escape."  page 31]]> 2016-04-04 14:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/103917681 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104125116 "I could have screamed in anger. To have lived and endured so much; was I going to let my father die now? Now that we would be able to take a good hot shower and lie down." page 105]]> 2016-04-05 13:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104125116 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104139646 "I did not move. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck before, my very eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid." Page 64 (PDF)]]> 2016-04-05 14:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104139646 ca120299 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104139992 “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?”  page 33]]> 2016-04-05 14:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104139992 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140283 "I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went." page 82]]> 2016-04-05 14:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140283 ma100900 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140293 "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating." Page 115]]> 2016-04-05 14:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140293 ca120299 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140343 “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” page 45]]> 2016-04-05 14:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140343 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140462 "I watched the whole scene without moving. I kept quiet. In fact, I was thinking about hoe to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself... That was what concentration camp life had done to me." Page 79 (PDF]]> 2016-04-05 14:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140462 ca120299 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140858 “Behind me, I heard the same man asking: ‘For God’s sake, where is God?’ and from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows” page 65]]> 2016-04-05 14:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104140858 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104141038 "I didn't move. I was afraid, my body was afraid of another blow, this time to my head." Page 136 (PDF)]]> 2016-04-05 14:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104141038 ma100900 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104141159 "But as soon as he felt the first chinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight and opened the door to death" Page 77]]> 2016-04-05 14:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104141159 ca120299 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104141338 “‘Where is merciful God, where is He?’ someone behind me was asking.” page 64]]> 2016-04-05 14:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104141338 ca120299 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104142501 “I did not fast. First of all, to please my father who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, or protest against Him.” page 69]]> 2016-04-05 14:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104142501 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104143261 "An icy wind was blowing violently. But we marched without faltering." page 85]]> 2016-04-05 14:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104143261 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104143599 "I stretched out and tried to sleep, to doze a little, but in vain. God knows what I would have given to be able to sleep a few moments. But deep inside, I knew that to sleep meant to die. And something against me rebelled against death." page 89]]> 2016-04-05 14:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104143599 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104144306 “and in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to the God in whom I no longer believed." Page 91]]> 2016-04-05 14:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104144306 ca120299 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104144879 “He had watched me one day as I prayed at dusk. "Why do you cry when you pray?" he asked, as though he knew me well. "I don't know," I answered, troubled. I had never asked myself that question. I cried because because something inside me felt the need to cry. That was all I knew. "Why do you pray?" he asked after a moment. Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? "I don't know," I told him, even more troubled and ill at ease. "I don't know." page 4]]> 2016-04-05 14:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104144879 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104269107 "He had felt his father growing weaker and believing that the end was near, had though by this separation to free himself from a burden that could diminish his own chances for survival" Page 91]]> 2016-04-06 02:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104269107 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104269431 "If only I couldn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of only myself" Page 106]]> 2016-04-06 02:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104269431 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104269627 "the old man grumbled, groaned, and died. Nobody cared. His son searched him, took the crust of bread and began to devoured it." Page 101]]> 2016-04-06 02:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104269627 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104269814 "I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside my, if I could have searched the recess of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!" Page 112  ]]> 2016-04-06 02:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104269814 em120799 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104270179 “I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother. From time to time, I would dream. But only about soup, an extra ration of soup.” Page 113]]> 2016-04-06 02:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104270179 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104349052 "I did all I could to give him hope." page 108]]> 2016-04-06 13:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104349052 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104349954 "I walked for hours without finding him." page 106]]> 2016-04-06 13:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104349954 ma100900 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104350033 "I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears." Page 112]]> 2016-04-06 13:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104350033 br040500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104350361 "I began to laugh. I was happy. I felt like kissing him. At that moment, the others did not matter! They had not written me down." page 72]]> 2016-04-06 13:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104350361 ma100900 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104350465 "No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last words had been my name. He had called out and I had not answered." Page 112]]> 2016-04-06 13:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104350465 ma100900 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104374112 2016-04-06 14:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104374112 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104463197 "He slapped my father with such force that fell down and then crawled back to his place all fours... My father had just been struck, in front or me, and I had not even blinked." Page 39]]> 2016-04-06 19:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104463197 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104464832 "I watched it all happen without moving. I kept silent. I fact, I of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows... I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father." Page 54 ]]> 2016-04-06 19:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104464832 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104467873 "He continued to call me. The officer came closer and shouted to him to be silent. But my father did not hear. He continued to call for me. The officer wielded his club and dealt him a violent blow to the head. I didn't move. Page 111]]> 2016-04-06 20:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104467873 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104471898 "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry."
Page 19]]> 2016-04-06 20:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104471898 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104473117 "From time to time, I was able to send a piece of bread to my father.' Page 78]]> 2016-04-06 21:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104473117 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104473579 "Well, Father what are we going to do?' He was silent. 'Lets be evacuated with the other,' I said. He didn't answer. He was looking at my foot. 'You think you'll be able to walk?' 'Yes, I think so.' 'Let's hope we won't regret it, Eliezer." Page 82]]> 2016-04-06 21:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104473579 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104476314 "Please sir... I'd rather be near my father." Page 50]]> 2016-04-06 21:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104476314 da092500 https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104477129 "If only I couldn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of only myself" Page 106]]> 2016-04-06 21:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/da092500/42/wish/104477129