Nimrod Ariav: Holocaust Survivor

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The video I chose was of the Holocaust survivor, Nimrod “Zigi” Ariav. Not for any particular reason, I picked a video at random because I didn’t have enough time to watch enough of those videos in order to make an informed decision on which I should choose. From the information he gave about the Holocaust. It matched how Weisel described it pretty well. The holocaust would seem like very horrible experience so I’m not very surprised about what he said. Though in the video he mostly talked about his family, like how his father decided he would rather die than go to a concentration camp, and then drank poison. This surprised me because at the time, they didn’t really have a reason to fear a concentration camp. Though it is possible he could’ve

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