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Mady Bishop
Ms. Matz
American Literature 2 hour
24 November 2015
Annotated Bibliography
Human the Movie. "Francine's Interview - FRANCE - #HUMAN." YouTube. YouTube, 11 Sept.
2015. Web. 23 Nov. 2015.
This video interview begins by giving a short introduction about Francine Christophe and
her experience during the Holocaust as a young girl. The Holocaust was in association
with the exploitation of Jews under rule of Adolf Hitler and is an event that is well known
throughout history. During the occurrence of this event, certain Natzi camps allowed for
children to have certain privileges than adults, for example being allowed to take one or
two small valuables to the camps with them. For Francine, her mother decided to bag two
small pieces of chocolate for her and told her to save them for a day when Francine was
either greatly ill, or had seemed to have lost all sense of hope. During their time in the
concentration camps, Francine and her mother had an experience with an imprisoned
woman who was giving birth. With permission from Francine, Francines mother gave
the frail woman the two pieces of chocolate as a token of hope during her labor. The
woman successfully gave birth to a small, puny baby and both survived. Years after the
Holocaust had ended and Francine had become a public speaker, she decided to do one of
her lectures relating on a topic for the time after the Holocaust. The discussion drew a
large crowd of people including historians, elderly survivors, psychologists, etc. During
the middle of the lecture a woman decided to take the podium, introducing herself and
her occupation. Before delivering her speech she stated, I have something for Francine
Christophe, while reaching into her pocket and pulling out a piece of chocolate. I am
the baby. That quote specifically gains an emotional draw to the audience and shows the
greater significance to the two small pieces of chocolate- saving her life. This source
communicates the information very appropriately to the audience making the point very
easy to understand. Though prior knowledge would have been needed to understand
certain parts of this video.

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Ferraresi, Michael. "Holocaust Survivor Shares Powerful Story of Hope - GCU Today." GCU
Today RSS. Grand Canyon University, 04 Nov. 2014. Web. 23 Nov. 2015.
This article beings by giving a small summarization about the background of Magda
Herzberger and her childhood in Romania, before her freedom was lost in April, 1944.
Even though the majority of the article gives great detail of Herzberger's experience with
her and her family being kidnapped, along with her time being spent at the concentration
camps, what happened before her and her family were kidnapped is what caused her to
stay hopeful and stay alive during her time at the camps. In 1940, Herzberger was
beginning high school and also during this time, Nazi soldiers were beginning to identify,
capture and murder Jews. While this was occurring, Herzberger was one of six Jewish
students selected to attend a prestigious high school in Romania, where she faced
constant harassment from students other than Jews. Though as the laws began to change,
and the Nazis began to seize almost all control of Europe, the Jewish children at the
prestigious high school were no longer welcome. Shortly after this had happened, the
Jewish community began to beg for the government to form Jewish schools so their
children could have some form of education. Even though they got this wish for only a
brief period of time, this education allowed Herzberger to be able to speak and
communicate well throughout her time at the concentration camps. This also allowed her
to have a better perspective and outlook on her time there spent which gave her a sense of
hope. This source communicates the information very appropriately to the audience
making the point very easy to understand. Though there was certain vocabulary that was
more advanced. This source also gives lots of information on the topic making it
appropriate for high schoolers or higher.

Quora. "A Holocaust Survivor's Inspiring Answer to 'What Gives You Hope During Tough
Times?'" The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 12 Dec. 2014. Web. 22 Nov. 2015.
In the beginning of this article, Eva begins by describing her experience in the Nazi
concentration camp of Auschwitz where her and her twin sister were used in medical
experiments by Dr. Josef Mengele. He injected her along with other people including her
sister, with a deadly germ. The interview gives great detail of the horrific conditions Eva
had to endure while being under the effect of these illnesses. Eva was forced to live in the
sick barrack along with an enormous group of people, where her doctor never examined
her and cared little of her health and to what would happen to her. During the time of her
illness, Eva was experiencing a fever and extreme weakness, causing her to be unable to
walk and having to crawl on the floors of the barrack. Throughout Evas six weeks in the

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sick barracks and having to endure her illness, the entire time Eva had a passionate will to
live and constantly told herself, I must survive, I must survive. There was no object or
element that Eva could fall back on for hope, but instead relied on purely oneself's will to
survive. Evas relationship with her sister also caused for her to push herself even more to
live and her knowing that she was alive and waiting to be reunited with her. This source
would be appropriate for middle school students or higher due to simple organization and
basic vocabulary. Though there was some prior knowledge needed to understand some
parts of this article.