Reflection About The Holocaust

The holocaust was one of the worst times in history. Jewish families lost everything, they were taken from their house and put into camps where they would be seperated from there familys and moved to camps or killed. I don't know why the nazi did this but from reading this book shows how cruel they really were. Before reading the book, I really didn’t know much about the the Holocaust. I knew that the Holocaust was a time were Jewish, and other innocent people, were put to work and were killed by the Nazi. What I learned in school is that we didn't want to get involved, but we joined forces with the other countries that were already battling the germans and their Allies. They really never went into detail about the Jewish but more about the …show more content…
I have never seen this perspective of the war before and it really changed the way I think about the war. Seeing what Elie went through in the Holocaust was a very sad thing but was a good way to see what happens in the war. I never knew that they would separate people by gender and work ability. I never knew that they had to be certain age to work, and that age was pretty old, and that's why he changed his age to be with his dad and not be killed. It was crazy learning how they treated the them, they just shoved them into cattle cars and transported them to camps with no food or water. In the book Elie was moved to many camps and got all of his stuff taken by the nazies if it was vauble like his gold teeth. I thought that they just worked at one place just moving stuff but they were split up into groups and did different things for work. I thought that they didn't feed the people in the camp, but they did and it wasn't a lot. People were put in small houses and were put on wooden beds with nothing else. Elie stand strong threw the whole thing even losing his whole family with his dad at the end. Elie never gave up and worked hard threw the whole thing and did what he was supposed to and somehow he survived all of the stuff the nazies …show more content…
I wish I would have read this along time ago because it was really good information told by someone that went threw the holocaust. In the beginning of the book, Elie was talking about how they thought that nazis were helping them at the beginning but when they started to get put on cargo cars, they new that something wasn't right . I dont get why they tricked them and kept putting them into small areas to keep them from leaving. Why did the nazis give them an option to leave the country, the nazi didn't want them there. When i think back on the war, ijust wonder why did they do this, what was going threw their minds to make the do this. What were the nazis going to accomplish by killing people and taken land from other countries? IF everyone would read this then people would be more informed on what they did to the jewish and how afule they were. When people read this book they will know what happened and they will remember how bad it was and help prevent this from happening in the future. Before reading the book i was happy about the war that we went in and stopped the nazis, But after hearing what they did, it made me sad and angry that so many people were killed. Throughout the book I felt like i was there and i could see what he was talking about how bad his time was there. This book makes me want to go back and do the same thing that they were doing to the Jews. This book really