Sophia-Blog Post #5

This unit has been extremely emotional but I am so glad that we studied it because I have learned so much. When we first began this unit I wasn't exactly thrilled about it. I thought that i knew everything there was to know about the Holocaust. After reading Night by Elie Wiesel, watching Life is Beautiful and going to the Holocaust Museum I have have learned more than I ever imagined. This unit has affected my emotions so much. In the last page of the book I was extremely emotional because Elie was talking about being free and liberated. I started to cry tears of joy because i was happy and touched. Also, at the end of Life is Beautiful i cried a lot when Joshua found his mother and he cried "we won mom, we won"! I was just getting over how his father was just shot and at the same time i felt better because the found each other and they were free, the had won. At the Holocaust Museum I couldn't believe everything I was seeing I was shocked at how brutal everything was but at the same time i wasn’t. I had made so many images in my head while reading the book and when we went to the Museum everything seemed to match up just like i pictured it in my head.