... perform are singing and dancing. Polish families gather on Sundays for traditional family dinners. The family gathers around the table discussing family affairs and eating a typical Polish dinner which includes soup, a meat dish, vegetables, potatoes, a cucumber salad, compote, and a dessert. Special meatless dinners are served on Christmas Eve and Good Friday. Ethnic foods are, barszcz (beet ... soup), pierogi (dumplings), and ryby (fish). Between 1988 and 1992, for example, an average of almost 14,000 people born in Poland immigrated to the U.S. each year, representing 7% of all immig...

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... 's failure to deal with the depression left the Nazis with a very disappointed nation, especially the businessmen, workers, young people and farmers who had already been doing badly. The Nazis opened soup kitchens and places to stay for the homeless people, who had been badly hit by the economic crisis, and promised improvement for the working class and farmers who had also ... ...

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... given a striped shirt and paints. Every day they would be woke up and sent to work. Every day the prisoners would only get a piece of molded bread or some old soup. The living was so bad that four or five people had to share one bunk of a bed. Many people could not take the pain and committed suicide. Most people killed ... ...

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... was also very attracted to the characters of German mythology. Two years later his money ran out and he had to move into a poor house where he could get free soup. He spent his time going to libraries and theaters and continued his interest in German culture. He would sit quietly and paint until politics were mentioned, then he run over ... ...

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... able to help support him. In 1909, he moved to Vienna in the hope of somehow earning a living. Within a year he was living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup-kitchens. He had declined to take regular employment and only took occasional jobs. He sold some of his paintings or advertising posters whenever he could to make a little money. In ... ...

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... Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1909 he moved to Vienna hoping to find work but in less then a year he lived in homeless shelters and eating at the charity soup-kitchens. He took occasional menial jobs and sold some of his paintings whenever he could. In Vienna he developed his hate concerning foreigners and Jews. In 1913 Hitler moved to ... ...

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... returned to Vienna in February of 1908, to make a second attempt at becoming a great artist, things went quite poorly for him. He slept on park benches and ate at charity soup kitchens (The History Place- Hitler's Boyhood). During those years of misery and absence of money, he had to earn a meager living as an unskilled laborer. He was eventually able to ... ...

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... to escape, they were taken aside and beaten or shot. There was hardly any food, and many people starved. When the people were fed, they gave them a little cup of soup and sometimes bread. Food wasn't given daily and because of all the hardships, hard work and labor, many people eventually got sick. There were a lot of diseases going around. No ... ...

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... "If you queer, that's what you wear." Throughout his time in the concentration camp Max uses his yellow star to his advantage, he gets more meat and vegetables in his soup and also manages to get Horst some medicine for his cough. The end of the play is very significant in showing the progression of Max's identity. He goes from trying ... ...

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... , he failed twice. He applied to The Academy of Fine Arts twice and was not excepted. Within a years time, he was living in homeless shelters and standing in line at soup kitchens. He refused to take regular employment so ha had several odd jobs. One of these was painting advertisements on postcards. After this he completely isolated himself from his family ... ...

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... minute a girl is sick in the hospital and the next another girl is working constantly in a concentration camp where she hardly gets any food and when she does it is a soup that has insects, socks, underwear and many other horrible things floating in it. When Chana first goes to Auschwitz she has to take a shower nude with hundreds of other women ... ...

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