Imagine being killed for your religion.Being held captive against your will with no escape. Being starved everyday only living on watery soup made from dirty water, scraps people found on ground, and bread crusts filled with sawdust about once a week. Being beaten to death if you even looked the wrong person in the eye. Well this is what is was like for jewish people in concentration camps. Also known as the holocaust. During the holocaust the Nazi’s didn’t only focus on jews it also targeted Gypsies, the disabled, poles, russians, and etc.
The holocaust was one of the most devastating, heart wrenching times for most jews in europe. A horrendous event lasting around 12 years, would forever remain an important event in history. Millions of innocent lives were lost brutally over the course of a decade. The act of Hitler’s anti-semitism and the population of germany’s naivety led to have a horrible combination where countless amounts of people suffered. There are tons of books, articles, poems, and etc. were made to explain this pivotal …show more content…
The line “ Where the departed are blessed with an instant death, While the living condemned to a short wretched life’’ shows the that the only way to escape these horrible death camps was death itself, and it was easily achieved. The poem contains repetition repeating the phrase “ No I do not want to remember, but how can I forget?” this provides a rhythm to the poem that describes the unforgettable horrors of the concentration camps and ghettos.The author describes The life of jewish people going from ghettos and then really subtle to life in concentration camps. Most of the poem tells about the unending constant hunger, detachment, and devastation. But mostly the poem mentions family. Mothers are frequently mentioned throughout the poem. Mothers in the poem are either found searching for bread or family
The holocaust was one of the most devastating, heart wrenching times for most jews in europe. A horrendous event lasting around 12 years, would forever remain an important event in history. Millions of innocent lives were lost brutally over the course of a decade. The act of Hitler’s anti-semitism and the population of germany’s naivety led to have a horrible combination where countless amounts of people suffered. There are tons of books, articles, poems, and etc. were made to explain this pivotal …show more content…
The line “ Where the departed are blessed with an instant death, While the living condemned to a short wretched life’’ shows the that the only way to escape these horrible death camps was death itself, and it was easily achieved. The poem contains repetition repeating the phrase “ No I do not want to remember, but how can I forget?” this provides a rhythm to the poem that describes the unforgettable horrors of the concentration camps and ghettos.The author describes The life of jewish people going from ghettos and then really subtle to life in concentration camps. Most of the poem tells about the unending constant hunger, detachment, and devastation. But mostly the poem mentions family. Mothers are frequently mentioned throughout the poem. Mothers in the poem are either found searching for bread or family