Daniel's story

  • Birthday party

    Birthday party
    At the party his dad and uncle were fighting about leaving Germany or not
  • Daniel last public school

    Daniel last public school
    Daniel last time at a public school this was sign of discrimnation because daniel wasn't allowed to go to normal school anymore because he was jewish
  • Daniel New school

    Daniel New school
    Daniel started going to Jewish school because thing started to change
  • Jew's ID Cards

    Jew's ID Cards
    In1938 Jews were given an ID card with a big letter J on the card to say they were Jews this was sign of dehumanization because of the J for Jews on their cards
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    In 1938 Daniel's dad was robbed
  • Jewish council

    Jewish council
    Jewish council that was appointed to the Germans when invaded Poland
  • People being taken

    People being taken
    Rosa’s father was one of the people taken away
    leaving her with her mother and older brother and younger brother
    leaving 160,500 people left in the ghetto
  • More people being taken away

    More people being taken away
    There was 80,000 people left in the ghetto after that
  • Train Ride

    Train Ride
    Daniel doesn't understand and is trying to figure out how he got into this situation
  • Uncle Peter Package

    Uncle Peter Package
    In 1941 Daniel's Aunt Leah had received a package from the Nazi's of her husband Peter's ashes this was threat toward the family as a joke
  • Daniel's mother go sick

    Daniel's mother go sick
    daniel's Mother became ill
  • Daniel's family got apartment

    Daniel's family got apartment
    Due to the fact that Daniel's Father had fought in WW1 among the Germans the Nazi's had given his family special treatment
  • Daniel's Grandma got sick

    Daniel's Grandma got sick
    She was admitted to the hospital
  • hospital event

    hospital event
    Everyone in hospital were being taken away and killed because it became to hard to handle those who were sick
  • first Meet with rosa

    first Meet with rosa
    it was 1942 Daniel didn't know if he was embarrassed or in love when he first met Rosa
  • reason to live

    reason to live
    Rosa was giving Daniel a reason to live threw all of this terrible stuff happening to all them
  • first picture of Rosa

    first picture of Rosa
    1942 December Daniel's finally gain the courage to ask to take rosa picture
  • Daniel's 16th birthday

    Daniel's 16th birthday
    It was Daniel's 16th birthday his father insisted that he took photo of it
  • taken to death

    taken to death
    Those taken during 1942 in transport were on way to their death
  • no Music

    no Music
    It was announced that all musical instrument had to be turned in
  • New location

    New location
    Daniel going to new location camp
  • Factory picture

    Factory picture
    Daniel took picture of rosa and erika infront of sewing factory although it was illegal to have camera
  • better food

    better food
    Rosa discovered that their was good food being held from them in ghetto and she wanted to make plan to get it
  • the movement

    the movement
    Rosa and her family had to move because they closed down that part of ghetto
  • moving in

    moving in
    Rosa family moved in with Daniel’s family
  • D day News

    D day News
    The news about D day was about Allied invasion of france
  • Against Hitler

    Against Hitler
    A coup against Hitler had failed but it gave Daniel and everyone hope because they knew people were all approving of Hitler actions and behavior
  • Mother's Illness

    Mother's Illness
    Daniel’s Mother sickness got work and she had to leave work because her disease could spread
  • People being taken again

    People being taken again
    More people were being sent away and some started refusing to leave
  • Into Hiding

    Daniel's father insisted that daniel went into hiding while he took his daughter and wife with him to camp hoping it would of been just another work camp
  • Got Caught

    Daniel unfortunately had gotten caught hiding from the nazi and was put on a train to be brought to the same place his father was
  • Unfortunate outcome

    Unfortunate outcome
    Daniel's mother and sister were killed because they were sick and ill and the nazi did not want them. one of the soldier told daniel's father that those who were send to the other side and were sick were killed with gas and than burned into ashes
  • quarantine

    quarantine
    when daniel and them got into Auschwitz Daniel and everyone were being quarantined in part of the camp called birkenau
  • lovely surprise

    lovely surprise
    Erica was alive playing violin but was very ill
  • Secrete note

    Secrete note
    Daniel had made a note to his sister after finding out that she was alive Daniel tosses the note to her when he walked passed her
  • Erika gains hope

    Erika gains hope
    Erika spotted daniel and father and became happy again as she played in the band
  • Help come soon

    Help come soon
    Russian soldier have been getting close
  • resistance group

    resistance group
    Some people that are apart of resistance want daniel to take picture of the gas chamber to see if they can have an allie bomb it or rid it so german can’t kill them no more
  • Daniel Photograph

    Daniel Photograph
    Daniel had started taking photo of all the dead bodies in the pit so they can be givin to someone who can help stop all this
  • rationing food

    rationing food
    Daniel and his father learn to ration their food (dehumanizing)
  • Sacrificed

    Sacrificed
    Adam Had himself killed by soldier after stealing another soldier gun and shooting three of them injuring one and killing 2. People he was working with had been capture and he knew they would tell on him so instead of letting them capture and tourture him he had himself killed
  • New move

    New move
    Erika fear she won’t make the next selection but she heard a rumor that they might move them so she might make it before the next selection
  • Erika's Gone

    Erika's Gone
    Erika was no longer on the stage in the band and someone else had taken her place
  • Russian coming

    Russian coming
    Kapo ran into the bunker Shouting for everyone to get out because the russian were near and that the germans were planing to kill them all to leave no eveidence of what happen there
  • New location

    New location
    Germans moved the prisoner into town loading them all into the trains to be moved to new location
  • Buchenwald.

    Buchenwald.
    Daniel had arrived at Buchenwald. Buchenwald was nicer than Auschwitz they are being fed they are not working and it is warmer because there lot of people inside the the rooms keeping them all warm
  • New job

    New job
    Daniel was given a job of photographs to take picture of nazi’s and their family on request while daniel father was making furniture for the nazi’s
  • new Gas chamber

    new Gas chamber
    One of the kapo had told them that they planned to build a gas chamber there and told them that they must be ready for the Russian to come an save them all
  • Mission No gas chamber

    Mission No gas chamber
    A kapo asked them to make sure that the gas chamber will never be built there
  • The radio

    The radio
    Daniel had gotten to listen to a radio again after months
  • Leaving

    Leaving
    Daniel was 18 year old now on another train heading off somewhere new but this time he sitting in chair and has some of his picture
  • Russian coming

    Russian coming
    he Russian allies were getting close and would soon save them
  • Discrimination

    Discrimination
    Daniel took pictures of the SS soldier living areas vs their living areas next door to the SS soldiers
  • Passover

    Passover
    April 4th was a Passover it gave them courage because of the thought that their ancestors had went threw this and survived
  • Evidence

    Evidence
    Daniel managed to take picture of prisoner marching in group to possibly their death or new camp threw the window of his photo shop
  • marching

    marching
    8,000 people were marched out non jew as well as jews shortly after that they could hear they could hear the fighting as it passed very close to them
  • War is coming

    War is coming
    The war was coming close and the nazi were terrified the german had let them go back to their barracks on instructions daniel and his father hid in the studio
  • Beginning to fight back

    Beginning to fight back
    The next day Daniel and his father hide near the gates and was ordered to disarm and kill the guard there. Their single was the
  • Winning the war

    Winning the war
    They took control over the camp and they were all free as they raised a white bedsheet so the Americans knew not to attack there
  • Father's wound

    Father's wound
    Daniel’s father bullet wound was not serious the bullet had not lodged in the bone but instead whizzed through the fleshy part of his arm. He asked for a shower and when he was clean they disinfected the wound and wrapped it in clean gauze.
  • stranger in the mirror

    stranger in the mirror
    Daniel stared at looking into a mirror he found he wondered who that tall gaunt boy with large blue eyes were it felt like he was looking at a stranger
  • the night of the uprising

    the night of the uprising
    The night of the uprising Daniel and his father slept in a hospital complex all around them were signs of Nazi brutality and viciousness body parts floating in bottles and needles filled and ready for use layed neatly on a table
  • Freedom at last

    Freedom at last
    Daniel woke up finally realizing that he was free. He stood and screamed “we’re free! Free!” he walked threw the camp watching other celebrating he went to gate of camp and walk through it to have some sort of proof that he was really free he cried with joy as he looked upon the beautiful view from outside the gate
  • First American Soldier

    First American Soldier
    That night an American soldier had showed up and Daniel had taken his photo of the happy kind soldier
  • Unfortunate deaths

    Unfortunate deaths
    Most pictures were wonderful but other picture were not so pretty they showed walking skeletons, men too weak to survive who died in the thousands over the next few weeks they showed pits full of corpses and huts filled with dead bodies they showed camp guards on their knees begging to be set free they whined that they had just been following orders and that they were innocent even that they had helped Jewish friends.
  • Now incharge

    Now incharge
    Daniel had taken a photo of a farmhouse not far from buchenawald karl had made daniel part of the militia that ran the camp they had went out to collect supplies most died because they ate too much rich food most because they were too weak to rehain their health.
  • The sort attack

    The sort attack
    Thugs attack Daniel and peter hurting peter so bad that he need to get an operation at a hospital is Lodz because he may have internal bleeding. They are no heading to Lodz to see if they can find Erika or even Rosa on top of bringing peter to a hospital peter had fell into an coma while on train and they fear he may not wake from it.
  • Peter's death

    Peter's death
    A doctor take Daniel and his father to see peter as Daniel held his friend peter’s hand he felt how cold he was peter whispered to Daniel for him to find his family and Daniel promises to find peter family as peter dies
  • Looking for Rosa

    Looking for Rosa
    Daniel father and daniel decided that peter would have a real funereal. Daniel’s father goes looking for peter family while daniel goes and looks for Rosa. He found rosa sitting in a chair infront of his old apartment as she read a book she looked heathy and not as skinny as he once remember her
  • Found Rosa

    Found Rosa
    Daniel proposes to Rosa and she says yes to him for once Daniel is feeling happiness once again
  • The Promise

    The Promise
    Daniel and rosa promise to never forget what had happen to them they would remember the tradtic event that had happen and will become stronger and never become what hateful and mean.
  • Erika death

    Erika death
    Rosa tell daniel that she saw Erika. She explain to him that when she found her she was weak and dying. Rosa stayed with erika holding her hand until she died