The Holocaust is a subject that is overlooked, misunderstood, and disregarded. Students do get taught about it in school, but it generally becomes a subject that people avoid discussing because they don’t want to offend someone. It soon became a subject that was too daunting and too terrifying to be thought of. People can’t even try to fathom the kind of evil it must take to degrade humans the way the Nazis did during the war, that they just stopped thinking about it all together. Some people even convinced themselves that the Holocaust never happened. Even the jews before the war and during the war, thought that this evil would never happen, as shown in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he points out how his family and town had hope for so long
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How ironic that they had thought the Nazi’s were protecting them by shipping them off like cattle to disgusting, horrific camps, only for them to die anyways. Today we think that if someone looks at us the wrong way were being treated bad, but we have no clue how privileged we are to have the lives we have. How lucky we are to have our identities and to feel like human beings. The jews didn’t get this privilege during the war and for some time afterwards. What happened to them is called dehumanization, which is exactly what it says, where you take someone and abuse them to the point where they are a thing, merely a number, no longer a person. The biggest question asked by people is how did the Nazi’s make the jews feel like they weren't people? I mean wouldn't you cling to your humanity and your identity in rough …show more content…
Many Jews clung to God for hope, and for comfort. Others chose to accept their fate and stray away from God. Elie started out his religious journey strongly worshiping god, praying for answers and help. Once he was taken to the camps and saw babies be slaughtered and women be burned he began to question why god would do this to so many people who worship him endlessly? But the event that made Elie lose faith in God, and stop worshiping is when a little boy is hung. Which someone in the crowd says “Where is god?” and Elie responds, “Hanging from the gallows.” Because this little boy is being hung, Elie remarked that the child had an angel face, and after the hanging, he doesn’t mention god, and he doesn’t pray with the
How ironic that they had thought the Nazi’s were protecting them by shipping them off like cattle to disgusting, horrific camps, only for them to die anyways. Today we think that if someone looks at us the wrong way were being treated bad, but we have no clue how privileged we are to have the lives we have. How lucky we are to have our identities and to feel like human beings. The jews didn’t get this privilege during the war and for some time afterwards. What happened to them is called dehumanization, which is exactly what it says, where you take someone and abuse them to the point where they are a thing, merely a number, no longer a person. The biggest question asked by people is how did the Nazi’s make the jews feel like they weren't people? I mean wouldn't you cling to your humanity and your identity in rough …show more content…
Many Jews clung to God for hope, and for comfort. Others chose to accept their fate and stray away from God. Elie started out his religious journey strongly worshiping god, praying for answers and help. Once he was taken to the camps and saw babies be slaughtered and women be burned he began to question why god would do this to so many people who worship him endlessly? But the event that made Elie lose faith in God, and stop worshiping is when a little boy is hung. Which someone in the crowd says “Where is god?” and Elie responds, “Hanging from the gallows.” Because this little boy is being hung, Elie remarked that the child had an angel face, and after the hanging, he doesn’t mention god, and he doesn’t pray with the