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Noah Blog #4

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I think studying the holocaust was a sad topic to learn about. Even though all the assignments we do like slavery, WW1, the great depression, were sad but the holocaust was the sadest topic. I never really knew anything about the holocaust, so when I was getting taut in class about it, it just sounded unreal and unbelievable. I just didn’t understand why did they treat these people so poorly and looking back it, its a terrible thing but in their minds, they think its perfectly fine. I just feel so bad inside for all the people during that time because they didn’t know what and why they were doing this. They were forced unwillingly to work for hours with only minimal food. The book Night by Ellie Wiesel was great. I think Ellie Wiesel did a great job explaining and it definitely impacted a lot of people after reading that.: “But we no longer feared death, in any event, not this particular death. Every bomb that hit filled us with joy, gave us renewed confidence.” this is a quote from ...
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Aimee Blog Post #4

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Overall this topic has changed the way I thought of the Holocaust. Mainly because I hadn't learned much about the it to start with and this new knowledge was horrible and disgusted me. Even though I can’t  relate to the struggles of one who survived the holocaust it is difficult having to go over this topic in a classroom. I second guessed the reality of it all, of how humans could have the capability of doing such harmful things. I have a new regard for survivors and their courage, and to those who perished.  After hearing the words of people, survivors, talking about their experience and how it left them with awful memories it made me imagine how hard it would be to move on everyday without remembering dreadful things that they had to go through. After reading the book Night, by Elie Wiesel I realized how terrifying experiences basically destroy everything you love or once loved. There is an obvious difference in the behavior at the beginning and towards the end of the bo...
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Kaelyn Blog Post #4

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Throughout our study of the Holocaust, most of my time was spent processing how one man, more or less, managed to cause this horrendous event in human history. Hitler’s movement was the reason the word “genocide” was created. I know that when we think of events like these, we don’t necessarily associate them with our present. But just like us now, no one thought this form of evil, this desire to annihilate a whole race, could be carried out successfully. But it did. And for a long while too. The idea of furnaces, ha… furnaces, built to burn humans bodies, dead or alive, it didn’t matter. “‘Over there, that's where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still don't understand? You sons of bitches. Don't you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!’"(56 Wiesel). Can you imagine hearing that you will be burned alive or shot for reasons unknown to even Adonai Himself? Not knowing why you are in this hellhole in the fir...
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Owen Blog Post #4

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Before reading Night, I had a little prior knowledge about World War 2 and the Holocaust in general. I had read the book Maus once, and read some other books about topics like the Hitler youth and Jewish defiance. However, reading Night and going to the Holocaust museum in Washington widened my view of these topics extremely. At first, I was a little uneasy going in to the unit as I was unsure about the severity of the topics we would be covering. Going through, I learned many more things than I had previously known, such as the amount of death camps there actually were and how some camps were work camps that enforced slave labor. This affected me because I got to learn about how awful some of the German acts were, and how awe inspiring the acts of defiance by the Jewish people were. Some people in camps, before being taken away to be killed, would shout words of solidarity and empowerment to the other prisoners, using their final breaths to give strength to their fellow Jewish peo...
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Finn Blog Post #4

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Inhumanity, a word we know as non-human. Throughout the book night, this word appears often. Inhumanity is what the holocaust was. We look through the eyes of Elie Wiesel who experienced the holocaust face to face. He wants us to remember the dead, but yet he wants us to even more honor the living. He talks about this in the book night and in his speech at the Nobel peace prize acceptance. The Germans used gas fire and forced to kill the jews. What kind of world would kill their own species because of the german’s own doing? I have seen mentally unstable, ost of the germans were doing this because of anger and hate. How could our own species kill each other just through anger? Why does violence have to be the answer in this crude world of the holocaust? In the movie Life is Beautiful the Germans use the word showers for their gas chambers so that the children don’t know what is ahead of them. The children think they have to take a shower, but really they will die. We look at the cr...
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Griffin Blog Post #4

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In my experiences of reading Night, the one word I would use to describe the novel was tragic. Night for me was incredibly hard to read. It’s extremely sad and something I can’t imagine happening now. Just the fact that someone would ever want to completely erase one kind, is just shocking. If I ever witnessed seeing that in my life, personally I don’t think I could handle it. If I had to bear witness and tell someone about what happened, it would be very hard to even say words, because all of the memories would probably pop back into my head, and I would start to get emotional. For instance, in Night, one part of the novel that really impacted me was the part where the guards used babies as shooting targets. However, when Elie Wiesel was standing against Nazi Germany in his Nobel speech, I felt extremely inspired. Another sad part was in Life is Beautiful. It was when the father and Joshua got on the train to the concentration camp, and they didn’t know what and where they were going,...
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Trent - Blog Post #4

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The theme that most impacted me from the novel Night was faith. I learned that faith can be crushed by hellish situations, but people always find a way to not give in. People lived in faith till the end of their lives. Faith is the belief that God exists. People in the novel, Night , denied the existence of God. One said,“Blessed be though, Almighty Master of the universe who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night.” Others said that this was a test and that God was testing who remained faithful in a place designed to purge the Jewish race from the world. Who remained faithful would be highly regarded by God and all to be judged of pure heart. It is like how God tested Job. Job became a hero because he stayed faithful to god. Faith matters because without it no one would have a moral compass to guide themselves. The world would be anarchy. Humanity would crumble. The world would be ruled by dictators, but then this may be a bit too extreme. At least without Faith in ba...
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