https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j from nimco to ms.thomas en-us 2022-06-06 14:04:10 UTC 2025-04-07 18:49:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f338.png nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2215757447 it was 9 jan, 1910 when i was born. My name is Christina i'm one of a German-Canadian family I was born in Canada and also my siblings. we took this picture after my sister Anna became one year old, but she died at that age. i have four brothers and one sister, two twin brothers paul and ben that are  older than me , two brothers Leon and Fynn that are younger than me. my mom Lena and my dad hans were born in german and came to Canada in 1889.  the war came into our country in 1914 since canada was part of the British Empire. i was four years old and at that time my two twin brothers became 16 years old.   

]]> 2022-06-09 03:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2215757447 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2217503879 Canada was a British colony, it was subject to British rule. However, the Canadian government had the freedom to determine the country's level of involvement in the war. my father went to the war immediately and they didn't ask of his race, but if they knew they would have killed him. my father talked about the No.2 Construction Battalion he had a friend of that which not treated so well they gave as a message to form my father.]]> 2022-06-10 13:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2217503879 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2218398536 https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/history-ethnic-cultural/Pages/german.aspxhttps

https://docs.google.com/document/d/135Psi3PtNXY3trC1s9ei6loSUli5RLnqheWOJdoG6QM/edit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Canada_during_World_War_I#:~:text=The%20British%20declaration%20of%20war,of%20involvement%20in%20the%20war.

https://valourcanada.ca/military-history-library/internment-of-german-canadians-in-wwi/#:~:text=Anti%2DGerman%20sentiment%20was%20very,subjected%20to%20strict%20government%20surveillance.


https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history#:~:text=Over%20the%20next%20several%20years,the%20country's%20banks%20had%20failed.


https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/classes/33d/projects/1920s/Econ20s.htm


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eQIRmZkNIwk6bXXr3v15O9NFGFYnMI4jOc8Zilq0LME/edit#slide=id.g8416a1195f_0_62

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eQIRmZkNIwk6bXXr3v15O9NFGFYnMI4jOc8Zilq0LME/edit#slide=id.g74f69b0863_0_164 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qQMcLL9AmCW3t-JMPYJjSfHgkQdlpDv11zffDCdS2bo/edit 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgaXbAZIWMnFUx_B8NlsXoyLjrnkE3HN_jTfvWZmLAs/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k6FKYzannl_scolc_Um8KXdOMFXX20yYTfHA2ExcRyE/edit 

]]> 2022-06-12 04:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2218398536 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2222395392 to my wife and children 
dear wife and children,this is your father,how are you ? do you eating good and health food? Do the older brothers teach their brothers and sister ? did the cold get worse?. it's 1915 the war become fighting intensifies so many of as are dying, we build trenches that should protect form shots but, there is a so much dirty becouse of our waste there is rats, little mouse and there is some diseases like gingivitis.our shoes get wet  unsanitary conditions. 
Caused the feet to swell up three  times their normal size.I wish to come home but the war is getting worse, wish me good luck.
from your husband hans to my wife and children that i loved.

after that my dad died. we knew his death after the war ended. he died September 21, 1917.  ]]> 2022-06-15 23:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2222395392 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2223072925 after my father died my mother's mental condition became worse but because of the circumstances in our family, my mother started a job. she became a nurse at a small medical pharmacy, my mother learned nursing in her early twenties.
when the war ended people started working on the economy and their life. ]]> 2022-06-16 13:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2223072925 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2223081905 me and my little brothers grow up I became 10yrs old, Leon became 9yrs old and  Fynn became 8yrs old. we started going to school and i was happy because I started the school since it was a dream that the war took it away from me i started from middle school my brothers at elementary school we started from there becouse our two older brothers teached as when the war was going on. ]]> 2022-06-16 13:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2223081905 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2223091726 my two older brothers start work at the theater at the age  22 yrs old they get a really good job . until now we lived so well we were happy with what we had with no one asking about our ethnicity. we are happy and living a better life even though my father is not with us but we are still grateful of what we have.]]> 2022-06-16 13:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2223091726 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2224043988 in October 1929 what we called the great depression started which caused an  economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. in my family our income decreased and mom was still working but the money she gets wasn't that much and also they lost their job since nobody willing for buying a ticket for a theater. ]]> 2022-06-17 13:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2224043988 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2224062967 my two older brothers want to ride and jump on the train illegally. they want to get a job so soon, they don't want to go back to how our life was in wwI. our mom stopped them from doing that and she told if they really want that much a job to work at the Relief Camps. The government was worried that the jobless, single men would cause trouble so they made the relief camps. it was a hard job like clear trees, digging ditches, and building roads.mom said that the men there were given food , a place to stay, medical care , and twenty cents per day and it's run by the military.  so they went there in 1932.  the money that my mom and my brothers' money only helped was with the food and school supplies. i was graduating at that time from high school ]]> 2022-06-17 13:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2224062967 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2224075782 when the great depression ended my four brothers signed up for the military they were all over 20yrs. I am 24 yrs old, me and my mother open a bakery shop to make enough money for the family and we always pray for my brothers so nothing bad happens to them.  one day we heard about the German building its economy and development, it was a good thing to know for me and my family since my grandparents were there so we were happy to know that becouse the Treat of Versaille was unfair to say germany is wasn't responsible for what happen.]]> 2022-06-17 14:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2224075782 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2226965675 when we were in the best days of our life me and my family still hear what was going on in our country which makes us sad. people in germany were suffering from economic decline and still they were in the Treaty of Versailles' punishments which causes reparation payment they could not afford becouse there money become not worth that much and families gave there money for children to play with, they used the money even to fire to warm the self becouse they didn't afford the firewood. german money was worth a few. people needing to carry it around in
wheelbarrows or suitcases just to buy groceries. ]]> 2022-06-21 16:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2226965675 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2227919487
dear grandparent

 in the 1920s and our lives became better for us after my fathers died. We started going to school back and we didn't face that much racism after the war. my older brothers started working in the theater at the age of 22yrs and it was a really good job and they made a lot of money for us. my mom went through a mental condition but with the circumstances in our family, mom started working and became a nurse at a small medical nursing pharmacy. when the war ended people started rebuilding the economy and their lives. We lived so well that even we forget about the horrible experience of the war. I felt like this was something that our dad wished to see, i felt happy seeing my family being happy after what we went through but, in october 1928 what we call " the Great Depression" which caused an  economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, this didn't affect us until my olders brothers lost their job, my mom didn't lose her job becouse being nurse was important thing to do. my brothers started working at the Relief Camps which the government was worried about the jobless, single men would cause trouble so they made the relief camps. it was a hard job like clear trees, digging ditches, and building roads. they got a really good job but it wasn't as good at the other job. Life becomes hard for the people. the money our mom gets and my older brothers was enough for school supplies and food only, our life isn't as bad as the others. to my grandparent with kindness and a good heart .]]> 2022-06-22 14:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2227919487 nimcomohamad https://padlet.com/nimcomohamad/v4ognsltguwvuk6j/wish/2227988020 At this time there is a guy whose name is Adolf Hitler. he become a leader of Nazi party which which was famous in that time. Hitler established an absolute dictatorship in 1933, after he became a dictator he start Germany’s economy recovered and unemployment levels dropped that kind a good news until we knew about this guy some much. he start a genocide of the european jews which wasn't a good thing . he also started invading other countries when he invaded poland the wwII started and that means my brothers are going to war too.  canada entered the war on september 10, 1939 which makes my brothers go to  war. canada was part of the Allied powers which consisted of Britain, France and canada. the german, italy and japan were Axis powers. Germany started invading poland, demark, norway, Netherlands, belgium and france. 

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dear mom and sister 

we are okay, we right now fight in Italy and fighting back german soldiers, and we know we fighting for canada not for the bad german right now. the update of the war is the Japanese imperial army bombed the U.S Navel base. They sank 4 U.S battleships, and damaged other battleships, cruisers ,destroyers, a mine-layer, plus many aircraft. Approximately 2000 people died, and more than 1200 were wounded. This event was important because it forced America to join ww2 by declaring war on japan. In April of 1945, the Soviets surrounded the city of Berlin and began to attack; by this point, most of the important Nazi officials had run away from Germany.  On April 29, 1945, Hitler married his mistress, Eva Braun.  The very next day, he took poison and then shot himself in the mouth with a pistol.  His wife also commited suicide.  Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day) was celebrated on May 8, 1945 after the surrender of Berlin, North Germany, Holland and Denmark.  By May 11, all remaining areas had surrendered. we are coming back dear mom sister all of us live. 


the war ended and my brothers came back home safe which me and my mom though it's a miracle we lived happy life after this horrific time.

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