After reading night, watching movies, videos and documentaries about the Holocaust, my understanding of the Holocaust is so much clearer. I always knew that it was a huge tragedy and millions of people died, but I did not know many details that I know now. I think going to the Holocaust museum was a great way of showing what all really happened, even though the experience was hard. Something that really stood out to me at the Holocaust museum was the room full of shoes of people who were killed. This stood out to me because being so close to something that was taken away from people who were about to be tortured and killed left me speechless. Reading Night gave me a good understanding of what life was like for a Jew who was a victim of the Holocaust and it felt like Elie Wiesel took me along his experience with him. Watching the documentary of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein, was one of my favorite parts about learning about the Holocaust because I think she has such a meaningful and interesting story.
This experience of the Holocaust affect me on an emotional level. Before this experience I did not know much about the Holocaust I just had heard of horrible man named Adolf Hitler and the genocide he had created. After reading the book Night and after the documentaries and films that we watched I've been slapped by reality. I've been dwelling a lot on my own as well, about how people could have so much hatred on the people who are their neighbors. Just ordinary people that have so much hatred. I'm just so confused how people could just back stab their neighbors as soon as a new political party rose. Ordinary people turning into monsters you don't see that everyday. I've taken away so many things from this unit. I think the thing that just draws me the most from in this unit is to never forget. So many innocent people died just because of what they practiced and what they look like. So the least I can do is memorialize them by never forgetting what happened to them....
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