Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Recently, I got given the opportunity by my school to take part in the Lessons from Auschwitz Online Project, to further my understanding on the events that took place during the Holocaust. I was joined by over a hundred other sixth form students from across the UK and I found it quite amazing that so many young people, whether they already had knowledge on the Holocaust or not, had decided to get involved and educate themselves on such a raw and often confusing historical time period. However, whether selfishly or unselfishly, I decided to take part in this project set up by the Holocaust Educational Trust for myself. I am a big believer in educating and bettering yourself before taking the responsibility of preaching your truth to others, so although I already knew a lot about the Holocaust, I endeavoured to find out more so that I could pass on my valuable knowledge to you, in the hope that you can reciprocate the action fo...

  Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, For one of our Theory of Knowledge lessons (Philosophy in other words), we have to write a 250-500 word essay every 2 weeks to consolidate our knowledge and add to our Theory of Knowledge journals. It can be about a current affair, a piece of artwork, media, or a personal story that links to our aspects of knowledge (perspective, culture etc). It's not the most interesting thing to do in the world to be honest but I decided to therefore write something interesting that I could get a lot out of. It's not the best entry for a TOK journal as it doesn't fill all the necessary requirements but I wanted to share it on here because I thought that the message was important. I hope you enjoy reading it and find it interesting!❤️ A current affair that has been of particular concern to me recently is the treatment of the  Uyghur   Muslims  in China and what  we as a foreign country ha ve  decided to do in  ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  There are some films that you watch that really make all your current problems seem so insignificant. The Windermere Children was one of these films. It's a film based on the real life Holocaust survival stories of Jewish refugee children, who were brought to England as part of a rehabilitation scheme, and it's probably one of the best war films I've seen so far. It included different perspectives and different people and in doing so, it brought the trauma that everyone, including the English civilians, experienced during the hard times of war. The film begins with the Jewish refugees arriving in England. Already, you can feel their fear. Being so used to the concentration camps, many of the teenagers were prepared to face another. Little did they know that Windermere was there to help them and make them grow as independent human beings so that they could leave and be successful in life.  It's pretty extraordin...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Recently I read an extract from the book Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd as a part of my historical scholarship readings group at school. It was a very interesting read and I far better enjoyed it to the previous extract about Richard the Third. I suppose it's because we can find that modern history is a lot more relatable to our time. It was also, in my opinion, far better written. It was less busy and the point of the historian was clearly set.  My favourite line was "it mattered little if you were a princess or a communist, a Nazi-lover, Nazi-hater, Swede, Sanskrit scholar or Irish nationalist. It was, as Bridget von Bernstorff put it, 'utter hell.'" This suggests that although we may like to think that it mattered that everyone was a loyal and committed Nazi in Germany at the time, everything was so messed up that political views didn't matter anymore. It also suggests that people were ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, On Friday, I went to this history club at school where you pick up an extract of any historical book on the topic you're learning about and find out more about the people who lived at the time. In history, we're currently learning about the Berlin wall and Germany's split after the defeat of Hitler and the Nazis in the Second World War. Consequently, the extract I picked up at lunch was about a 16 year old girl, who tried to scale the Berlin wall from the East side and I thought it would be a good idea to talk about it here on my blog today. This will hopefully happen on my blog every Monday but with a different extract. Enjoy! Miriam Weber in Stasiland, by Anna Funder Chapter 3 and beginning of 4 The story is told by her friend who heard about her story Blurb: Miriam was born in Leipzig in the DDR in 1952. In 1968, when she was 16, she and a friend wrote and distributed leaflets complaining about the w...