“In my panic and rage I felt helpless, exposed, violated.” - I Have Lived A Thousand Years, p. 24
This quote almost made me cry because of the reason that she didn't want to give up and she wanted to her bike that her parents gave her for her birthday. It also made me angry to think that many kids had to suffer in the Holocaust, that they had to give up their favorite things as kids and many never even knew what was happening until they saw the killings and it does get me mad. It’s sad knowing that many kids wanted to be brave and stand up but I think they were too scared because of the reason they were small. I really wish this Holocaust had never happened but you can’t change what the Nazis and what Hitler did to the innocent Jewish families.
The small connection I can make with this quote is about when I recently moved. When I moved, there was fire in my house. We had to leave pretty much all of our belongings. I was really sad because I knew that some things that I had since I was really little that I loved, I wasn’t going to see them again, so when the book said that they were forced to leave their stuff it reminded me of the bad situation that my family and I were in. This was choiceless choices because the Jews pretty much had no choices at all it was a choice of life or death. In my situation we also pretty much had no choices at all we had to move and begin our lives all over again.
Jewish family in ghetto liquidation (feeling helpless)
Any type of change is difficult to go through, no matter how small or large it may be. Jewish people had their entire sense of individuality stripped away from the them by the Nazi party when they implemented antisemitic laws such as the "Nuremberg Laws". Children suffered a great deal, thousands upon thousand of children had their entire childhood taken away (some even their whole lives). This quote embodies their experience. So many people had their entire lives stripped away and sadly there was little they could do to stop it. Though we wish the Holocaust didn't happen we can look back at it and never forget the struggle millions went through and then come back to the present day with that knowledge to ensure that a genocide of this scale never happens again.
ReplyDeleteI would not consider what happened to you as small. I hope you and your family are recovering from your lose. The Holocaust survivors will never be able to forget what happened, but it is great to see how they have been able to move forward and regain their lives.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Mr. Tesmer. I do agree with you about how the Holocaust survivors will never forget what happened and how our reaction is to seeing them restart their lives all over again
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