One Survivor Remembers

1.       In class today we watched a movie called One Survivor Remembers, it was a very touching movie that talked about the horrors of the “death walk” and other horrors of the Holocaust. The scene that I felt was the most powerful was the one were the US soldier came to bring the Holocaust survivors back t safety. Gerda said something that was as simple as holding the door for her was so warm and welcoming. Also, Gerda talked about how they were a winner if they had a crust of bread and life. That shows how many things we take for granted including food.

2.       The Nazis were very cruel people who dehumanized their fellow humans. In the book Night it said a way the Nazis dehumanized them was by shaving them and depriving them of so many things like food and clothes. In One Survivor Remembers ,they made them work and took away many food resources. They starved them and made them beg like a dog does.

3.       Question three asked about, what I would fantasize about to escape my environment if I was in the same situation. I answered XBOX360 because it just lets me escape reality. There are so many cool games out there that make me happy. But, I almost cry when I can’t play on it and that makes me realize how I take XBOX for granted. I also take food, shelter and clothes for granted. I try not to but sometimes I just do because it seems so normal to have.

4.       There is persecution currently happening in Pakistan. Some Palestinians are targeting Christians. Recent news talks about how a Christian couple in Pakistan was brutally beat for something they didn’t do. There have been other cases too. I feel that the king of Pakistan could sit down with the President of the US and come up with a solution to stop persecution. Maybe, they could put a law against discrimination in Pakistan.

5.       I think that Gerda’s father was a hero in the film. He always looked out for her as he should. Gerda’s father told her to where her ski boots in the middle of the spring. That may have saved her life in the Holocaust; she said that, “I saw girls breaking off their toes like twigs.” If she had have worn sandals like the other girls the winter might have killed her also.  That made me hopeful because, that makes me think about how our parents aren’t just talking to hear their voice; they’re talking to help us and me no harm no matter what. We could tell people this message and that could make the world a better place. Listen to your parents!

                                                                                                                      

Milkweed #5

I am reading the book “Milkweed” and the ghettos in this story are similar to the ones of reality. On the Holocaust Museums site they had stories from the Holocaust survivors. A portion of the site talked about how the transition from home in Misha’s case the shed was extremely difficult to the ghetto homes. The Nazis deprived the Jews of everything. In one case one of the Holocaust’s survivors was a rich girl. They took everything from her and now she lived in horrible conditions. She happens to recall the soldiers dragging dead bodies out of the house she was supposed to live in. The foods in ghettos were very limited and Misha happens to take the chance of getting shot just to get food. Also, in the story Misha and Janina’s family were in need of food so badly that they ended up eating rats. The harshness of the conditions they went through were terrible, and each thing the Nazis were putting them through dehumanized them each time. The hard thing to believe was that this didn’t happen too long ago, and that fact that no one knew about these events makes it even more mind boggling.