To Do List

1. Male Barrack
2. Female Barrack
3. Gate of Death
4. Crematory
5. Latrines (wash rooms)
6. Showers
7. Warehouses
8. SS barracks
9. Hospital

Model of Crematory

Creating Model of Crematory

This video shows whole process of creating model in Google Sketch Up. Time of video is 4 times shorter than original time of creating.

Model of Gate of Death

For now this model was the most to make. There are a lot of windows, doors and other elements which I was making step by step.

Analyse

1. Describe the inspiration for this project

            Inspiration of taking Auschwitz as my main topic project was visiting camp. Then human visit place like Auschwitz he could even imagine how it was to be in there when it was build or working.

Another reason was that when I lived in Warsaw, teenagers from my school didn’t respect people who died in this camp. There are a lot of jokes about Auschwitz and Jews. This made me think about how schools teach about those horrible activities. Teenagers don’t know how it is important to remember those things and why they should make fun of them.

            Next reason is that camp is almost completely destroyed. People from the entire world would like to see camp when it was complete. So I will create virtual model from which I will use to make short animation with small amount of information to make it more documental. I would like to put it on You Tube, on Auschwitz Museum website if they would be interested. This animation and model would be good source of information for school to show for students Auschwitz II.

2. Analyse your research and show how it has helped your create your product

            Photos from Auschwitz II taken by Nazis photographers were really helpful with creating models of barracks and other building. Some of them are destroyed so to rebuild them I needed those photos. For example gas chambers. To create whole camp, very helpful was blueprint of Auschwitz II where I made my measurements.

3. Describe how your research helped you come up with new ideas AND what your research taught you about your focus area of interaction

            From book “Dlaczego należy uczyć o Holokauście" I read that even Chinese are interested in the Holocaust, and there are often visits from China to Auschwitz II. Reason why other nations placed far away from Poland are interested in learning about the Holocaust is that this genocide had one main target, to exterminate all Jews. This genocide is the only one which has so brutal and took so many human lives.

Analizing book "Dlaczego należy uczyć o Holokauście" (translation "Why we should teach about Holocaust")

Stanisław Krajewski pg 34

Uczyć wszędzie, a szczególnie w Polsce!

Teach everywhere, and especially in Poland!

Why it is important to teach people about Holocaust? In whole world there are so many brutality and conflicts. In different countries there are different people who have different history. Some of them aren't crossing and some of them are. But  why people from other continents should care about history of Europe? Why they should learn about Holocaust? Is that really important to them? The answer is yes. People all over the world are inventing thousands of different techniques which cause faster production at fabrics and easier way to reach goals. Hitler built factories and he used all available knowledge to make production faster. When we are talking about production most of people would think about materials, mechanisms or war weapons like tanks or guns. But main goal of Hitler's fabrics was death. Death of Jews was the main goal for Nazis, because they were thinking that Jews are evil. That sound little bit strange but that's truth. Nazis wanted to rule the world as they thought that they are the best race on the Earth and clear rest of world from nations which they thought were worst or dangerous for them. These facts are very important to learn and first of all to teach in school because people be leave what they were told in young age.

Animations of models

Female barrack

Male barrack

Animation

So I changed my mind and now I'm doing computer model. Finally I will make animation.

My animation will have in it next things.

1. Travelling through camp.

2. Visiting:
               - Female Barrack
               - Male Barrack
               - Latrines
               - Showers (probably)
               - Gas Chambers and Crematoriums (probably)

3. Photo rooms where I will put different photos from camp

Working on plan of Auschwitz II

Working on plan of Auschwitz II

This is plan of Auschwitz II on which I was working. This plan will help me to make exact model of A. II.

First Draft

This is draft of animation.

I need to make text more exact, because watchers won't be able to read what is written there.

Change of view

A few days ago I was making measurements on Auschwitz II plan. From my calculations I can say that the most appropriate size for my model will be nearly 1.5 meters length and 1 meter wide. Also I count all barracks which are on plan. There are 340 barracks at all. If I will build model of Auschwitz II which length will be 1.5 meter and wide will be 1 meter, barracks should be 1.0x0.5 cm. It will be hard to build 340 barracks which size is so small. So I made a decision and now I will make my model of Auschwitz II in Google Sketch Up.


To present my product I will make animations which will take people through whole camp, show different buildings, show where were male side of camp and female, where were camp's hospital and where SS officers have had their quarters. On my presentations people will see how big Auschwitz II was and also they will see what left from the camp. If watchers will be interested in seeing building from inside I will give them that kind of chance. I was thinking about making models of barracks from inside and also some other buildings.

Books

Teresa Świebocka, Jonathan Webber, Connie Wilsack, (1990) "Auschwitz A History in Photography" Published by The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Teresa and Henryk Świebocki, Jean Jacques Raymond, Krystyna Oleksy, Janusz Lenczowski, Andrzej Nowakowski "Auschwitz Voices From The Ground"Published by The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Links

Here are some links which will help me with projecting my model. They also will help me with describing Auschwitz II

http://www.auschwitzmemento.pl/lista.php?limit=0


http://www.um.oswiecim.pl/rocznica/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=100


http://www.um.oswiecim.pl/rocznica/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=99


http://pl.auschwitz.org.pl/h/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=23&limit=1&limitstart=2


http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/Auschwitz.htm

Some plans which I found in the internet

 Here are some plans of Auschwitz II which I will use to make model of it.

http://www.colin-julie.com/Lot_Birk.jpg

Picture from Google Earth

Picture from Google Earth

http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/zaglada/oboz49a.jpg

http://www.crdp-strasbourg.fr/auschwitzDoc/plan.jpg

http://pl.auschwitz.org.pl/m/images/stories/konserwacja/relikty.jpg

http://www.ghwk.de/engl/catalog/ausch.jpg

Project Proposal

For my personal project I will make a model of Auschwitz II

My goal is to build a model of Auschwitz II which would help me to show people what consequences be appear after human activity. I want people to know how Nazis solve their problem with Jews and I will show how they do that. My model will be good product which shows human ingenuity.

The ORIGIN of Auschwitz was that Nazis wanted to clean the world from Jews. Their solution was to built a camp where they will work and die. With time they had new problem which was need for more space and faster extermination. Their solution was to built bigger camp which main task was to exterminate Jewish population. Nazis also changed first camp to more extermination camp.
In their camps they use crematoriums and gas chambers which killed a lot of people at the same time.

Consequences of building those camps are obvious. Other 1.500 000 people were killed there: children, woman, old men, invalid.

Purpose
One thing that really led me to make project about Auschwitz is that I have been there and saw camps. It made a big impression on me. In ours time if we go there we will walk on green grass, we will hear birds, we will feel comfortable. But in those times there were mud everywhere, everything were dirty and everywhere were blood. When we came in to barack we saw beds on which people sleep. We saw place where they were dying. It make huge impression. Other thing which led me to make it was that I really want people to remember history of Auschwitz. I will help us to make good decisions and avoid bad.


AOI
I chose Human Ingenuity  because it I will write about what create Nazis why and what were the consequences of their activity. I will write about problem for Nazis which were Jewish population and describe how they solve it. Their solution were Auschwitz I, II, III and I will focus on II. My goal would be to tell about constructing that camp, development of it, and changes.
Why this area is fundamental to my project ?
Because it answer all main questions and it also answer very good on them.

Goals etc.

My goal is to describe how was build Auschwitz II and how it was guarded by Nazis. I will write about ways to secure camp, prevent escapes and other things which were used in Auschwitz to complete the orders to exterminate all Jewish people and people other race.


Purpose
When I have been to Auschwitz I noticed that it was almost impossible to get out from camp. I also looked at constructions and material which they were made of. It helped me to understand why Nazis built that camp that way. But about it later.


AoL
My project will be focus on Human Ingenuity, because my product will be a model of Auschwitz II and in my essay I will write about constructions in camp, way they were built and their functions.



My sources will be


               1. Internet (there are a lot of sites but I haven't read throw all of them)
               2. Books (I need to import some books from Warsaw, look for in Kiev, and probably                                       check libraries)
               3. Documentary film 
               4. Interview
               5. My experience
               6. There are a lot of film on youtube or other sites which are good source too








 

Meeting

I just came back from meeting with Mrs. Lisa and Mrs. Yulia who gave me more information about P.P.

I learned that my P.P. should be about ONE THING like if I'm writing about MacDonald's I should pick one topic like: what are hamburgers made of or how do they make fries.

So if I am making project about Auschwitz I must chose my topic.

Each topic should be connected to 1 of 5 area of interaction (Aol) like
- human ingenuity
- community and service 
- environment
- health and social education
- approaches to learning 



For next Tuesday I need to decide on which Aol I will focus my P.P.

What is connected with this, is that I must talk to Teachers who are taking care about each AoI.
They will help me to make a decision and when I finally make MY decision (because its my Project and I will do it for next months) I need to tall my supervisors about it.

Also I need to write something about purpose of the project, inspiration to do this project and many other things.


Maybe I forgot about something but for now I know what to do so will so how I will go throw it. :D

What will be my p.p. about

On the Fall Trip I got the idea to make my personal project about Auschwitz. It is very important to remember what happend in there. So for my personal project I'm going to do model of Auschwitz I or II and post some photos there. It is my fist plan so it will be better with time

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Wow. I just make my own blog.