{"id":4909,"date":"2022-07-07T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alst.org\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:29:24","slug":"cameron-ackerland-5th-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/education\/student-projects\/cameron-ackerland-5th-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Ackerland, 5th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4909\" class=\"elementor elementor-4909\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-234f072 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"234f072\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5a29d34\" data-id=\"5a29d34\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c09b517 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c09b517\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Class Assignment: \u00a0Book report about a person who survived something<br \/>Book report based on\u00a0<em><strong>Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Simone Arnold Liebster<br \/>Presented to class as newspaper article written by reporter for the Alsace Gazette<br \/>Glenview Middle School, East Moline, IL<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0983212 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0983212\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e3211c\" data-id=\"2e3211c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a3271e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0a3271e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Cameron-Lion-Project.jpg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Cameron-Lion-Project-petit.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-4828\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d3f5011 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d3f5011\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d7d98cb\" data-id=\"d7d98cb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20f7f84 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"20f7f84\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Cameron Ackerland Project<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5edd5f99 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5edd5f99\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-20c8fd0d\" data-id=\"20c8fd0d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22482b83 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22482b83\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h3>Read the Alsace Gazette news reports about Simone Arnold:<\/h3>\n\n<p>(Next are the individual news items shown on the photo of the Gazette)<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Witness-girl\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#Witness-girl\">Witness girl survives the \u201clion\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#War-takes-shine-from-shoes\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#War-takes-shine-from-shoes\">War takes shine from shoes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Hiding-literature-to-survive\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#Hiding-literature-to-survive\">Hiding literature to survive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Triangular-unfairness\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#Triangular-unfairness\">Triangular unfairness<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3 id=\"Witness-girl\">Witness girl survives the \u201clion\u201d<\/h3>\n\n<p>Simone Arnold, a young Jehovah\u2019s Witness girl, survived World War II. Simone lived in Alsace France. \u00a0Germany overtook Alsace during the war. \u00a0Simone\u2019s religion was banned because Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses wouldn\u2019t Heil Hitler. \u00a0They also didn\u2019t go to war.<\/p>\n\n<p>Witnesses had a special code name for the Nazi\u2019s, the \u201clion.\u201d \u00a0Many families that were Jews were treated badly, but as a Witness girl, Simone was also treated badly. \u00a0First, her father was arrested for being one of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, and that split her family up a lot.<\/p>\n\n<p>Next, Simone was sent to a boarding school for delinquent girls because she refused to Heil Hitler. \u00a0At this school Simone was not allowed to talk at certain times. \u00a0She was forced to take care of a girl named Anna who was five years old. \u00a0Simone was just entering her teen years. \u00a0She was responsible for anything that Anna broke, took, or soiled. \u00a0She had to get Anna up two times a night to go to the bathroom so she didn\u2019t wet the bed. \u00a0Anna didn\u2019t like this, so to get revenge when Simone got her up, she would just go to the bathroom on the bed. \u00a0If anyone disobeyed the rules of the school they would have severe punishment such as getting whipped on the hands and loosing dinner along with that.<\/p>\n\n<p>One day, while she was at the school, Simone found out that her mom had been arrested, just like her father, for being one of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. \u00a0While in a concentration camp her mother almost died of starvation, but fortunately was saved. \u00a0Others in the camp gave her food and drink to help her survive.<\/p>\n\n<p>Her dad was also close to death in the camps. He had been assigned to a camp where people were forced to carry ninety pound granite on their back. \u00a0If anyone dropped their piece of granite they would be pushed down stone stairs to their death. \u00a0Fortunately he was reassigned to another camp. \u00a0When at the camp he was transferred to, he was beaten for working \u201ctoo slowly.\u201d \u00a0As a result he lost his hearing.<\/p>\n\n<p>Simone was away from her dad for around four years and from her mom almost a year and a half. \u00a0\u00a0At last, the war ended. \u00a0Simone\u2019s family was back together. \u00a0\u00a0It was wonderful to be back together, although it didn\u2019t feel the same. \u00a0Simone had survived the lion. \u00a0She did this with help from God, and by having the courage to never give up her faith.<\/p>\n\n<h3 id=\"War-takes-shine-from-shoes\">War takes shine from shoes<\/h3>\n\n<p>This is a picture of Simone Arnold. \u00a0She was a young girl that lived in Alsace, France during World War II. The picture was taken in June 1943 when she was twelve years of age. If you look closely you\u2019ll see Simone\u2019s shoes are worn out. Her mom sewed a new dress for her, but they could not afford new shoes. \u00a0Simone is known to have said that she isn\u2019t smiling much in the picture because she is embarrassed of her shoes being older and worn out.<\/p>\n\n<p>As mentioned, World War II was going on. \u00a0Stores and restaurants were being cleaned out because there was a shortage of food and goods. Many families like Simone\u2019s were extremely poor. \u00a0Here today, we have it pretty good, and should appreciate being able to afford new shoes!<\/p>\n\n<h3 id=\"Hiding-literature-to-survive\">Hiding literature to survive<\/h3>\n\n<p>What do you think is needed to survive a crisis? \u00a0Many say money, others weapons, but Simone Arnold and her family didn\u2019t rely on those things. What they did rely on, even though difficult, was their religion. \u00a0It was against the law to be one of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, and they would never change that. \u00a0Since it was difficult to keep material that involved their religion, they would have to make secret places to store these things. \u00a0They thought up clever things such as an extra compartment in the table to quickly place literature. (See clipping.) \u00a0Also when Simone had to go to a boarding school, because of being a Witness, her Mom put a tiny bible in her sewing box. \u00a0Simone would read the Bible and then hide it in some bed springs. \u00a0Simone\u2019s Mom did other things like this, such as sew a secret girdle in her (Simone\u2019s) vest to store literature. \u00a0Simone once had a letter taken away that her mother wrote her. \u00a0She realized that they could take the letter from her or anything else that she owned but they couldn\u2019t take away her memories, or as she called it, a \u201clibrary in her head.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>These things were all very brave and they show that Simone relied on God to get her through hard times. \u00a0Reading the Bible and Bible literature gave her hope that her trials would end. It also proved to her that God saw her and cared for her. \u00a0Simone was recently interviewed (by me on a Skype conference) and she said that the things her parents taught her about the Bible helped her to survive the Nazis.<\/p>\n\n<h3 id=\"Triangular-unfairness\">Triangular unfairness<\/h3>\n\n<p>During World War II many people were unfairly arrested because of there race, or as with Simone\u2019s family, their religion. Many were taken to concentration camps such as Dachau. \u00a0People were forced to work hard, almost as if they were slaves. They were beaten, starved, and even killed!<\/p>\n\n<p>The prisoners were forced to wear triangles or badges on their clothing to identify their supposed \u201cwrongdoing.\u201d Simone\u2019s parents weren\u2019t in the concentration camp because they were Jews, they weren\u2019t. They were in the camps because they were Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. \u00a0As such they were forced to wear purple triangles. (See samples.) \u00a0Since they were of that religion they wouldn\u2019t support the war effort. They also refused to \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d because saying that means \u201csalvation belongs to Hitler.\u201d As Witnesses they believed that salvation only belonged to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n<p>At the concentration camps most had no chance to get out, but Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses did. \u00a0To do that though, they had to sign a paper saying that they renounced their faith. (See sample.) Almost all, like Simone\u2019s parents, wouldn\u2019t sign. \u00a0They chose to stick to their faith even if it meant staying in the camp. \u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Assignment: &nbsp;Book report about a person who survived something Book report based on&nbsp;Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe&nbsp;by Simone Arnold Liebster Presented to class as newspaper article written by reporter for the Alsace Gazette Glenview Middle School, East Moline, IL Cameron Ackerland Project Read the Alsace Gazette news reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11618,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/11618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}