This unit forever changed my veiw on the Holocaust. Although I can’t relate to the struggles of a survivor's it is difficult just covering this topic in a classroom. I have new respectance for survivors and their bravery, and for those who perished. Overall this topic has changed the way I thought of the Holocaust. Mainly because I hadn't known much about the Holocaust and this new knowledge horrified and disgusted me.
After reading Night, by Elie Wiesel I realized how scaring experiences
destroy everything you used to love. There is a clear difference in behavior at the beginning and end of the book. Countless times in the book Elie talks about how he has no reason to live. Towards the end of the book Elies reaction to his father's death was blank and emotionless. In the beginning of the book he is a lively happy person. It scared me how people change from one person to another when their survival instincts trigger. I found that people didn't just die but they were tortured emotionally and physically.
I feel like it would be useful to educate people on the Holocaust based on how little I knew before so they could discuss it respectively.
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