Sunday, May 4, 2008

What do i know already about the Holocaust?

I would say, i know fairly well of the subject. Last summer, when i had visited D.C. i had gone to the Holocaust museum and really felt what the Jews had gone through. I would have to say the subject intrigued me in a way that people could treat each other so brusquely. I think that this event whenever it is told, it is very 'emotional'(?) for people to hear because of all the things that the Jews went through. I think back, and i think of if i was in that situation what would i do; i couldnt find an explanation of what i would do. Now as i think of what people went through as their everyday lives, i think of how lucky we are. When i think of the times that i get angry over things, i realize that there are more important things in life than what i get angry over. The books that i have read about the Holocaust have given me a clearer picture of what they had gone through and what they did even before the reselttlement. For example how the Nazi put the Jews in the "ghetto" before they actually sent them to the camps. How they treated them so unsympathetically, and them later on, treat them even more brusquely. It was really inhumane. How they could kill people without any emotion of regret(?). The main thing that i would really like to learn more about is how the Jews lived on right after the resettlement camps. Would they view life differently? People?

2 comments:

Aguri said...

You are right in saying we are very lucky. We are lucky to be in a time of peace, not war. We are lucky to be able to go to TCIS. We are lucky to be able to live in a house. We are lucky to have plenty of food to eat. We are lucky to have enough money. The list goes on and on. It is easy to forget how fortunate we are to be living like this.

Justin said...

I like the way you said that there are more important things than you getting angry over something very small. Its just like the display of wasting food when millions of people of Africa are starving to death. We are very fortunate to be in this time period. I also feel very sorrow for those people who died just because they were jews. I think the Jews wouldn't live after the resettlement if they were survivors and lost all of their family like Mr. Frank, but it they just survived and had no family before they would still want to live and finish off their lives from where they had started