Jeonglee & Jihyeon

“The Field Trip”

This illustration represents Janusz Korczak and the kids from his orphanage. This shows the day when the people from the orphanage is getting ready to be deported, however, Korczak is trying to make the kids happy even though there are horrid things going on during that time.

Janusz Korczak was born in Henryk Goldsmit in Warsaw on July 22, 1878. During his youth, he played with children who were poor and lived in bad neighborhoods. His passion for helping disadvantaged youth continued into his adulthood.In 1912, Korczak established a Jewish orphanage, Dom Sierot, in a building which he designed to advance his progressive educational theories.

The Germans occupied Poland in September 1939, and the Warsaw ghetto was established in November 1940. The orphanage was moved inside the ghetto. Korczak received many offers to be smuggled out of the ghetto, but he refused because he did not want to abandon the children. On August 5, 1942, Korczak joined nearly 200 children and orphanage staff members were rounded up for deportation to Treblinka, where they were all put to death.

“Hand of Redemption”

The hand on the top with a Nazi signed handcuff is the hand of Schindler. This painting represents the Jews during World War needing help from Schindler. The mystic but bright background of Schindler’s help provides the feeling of heaven and peacefulness while the bottom is just dark grey with not much emotion. The hands of Schindler is trying to reach the Jews representing the ‘Schindler’s List’.

Oskar Schindler was born in 1908 in Zwittau, Moravia, then a German province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of the Czech Republic. German businessman Oskar Schindler became an unlikely hero when he saved hundreds of Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. By employing them in his factory, Schindler protected them from the wrath of the Nazi Party and preserved generations of Jewish families.

The political landscape in Europe was undergoing major changes, especially in Germany, where Hitler and his Nazi Party began their rise to power. Hitler began stirring up ethnic feelings among the Sudeten Germans, pointing out that their ‘rightful’ ties were with Germany, not Czechoslovakia. By 1935 many Sudeten Germans joined the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party. Schindler joined, too.

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