No matter what life experiences people have in their lives they always come out having a different perspective in life. Like all of the survivors of the Holocaust, they all came out of the concentration camps looking at everything around them like it was the first time that they were encountering it. Like Elie Wiesel when him and his group got freed from the concentration camp. One piece of text evidence states, “OUR FIRST ACT AS FREE MEN was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That's all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread. And even when we were no longer hungry, not one of us thought of revenge. The next day, a few of the young men ran into Weimar to bring back some potatoes and clothes”(115) When all of
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Elie was changed forever because for starters he had to go through being sent to a concentration camp, being starved, and made to work nonstop. After having to do all of that, he saw that people didn’t want revenge; they just wanted to enjoy what they had and were given. In addition, Ray Allen is another of those people that were changed by seeing and learning about the horrors of the Holocaust. In the article that he wrote, Why I Went to Auschitz, he says, “ Honestly… it made me feel sort of irrelevant. Which was a strange thought to have as a young NBA player who was supposed to be on top of the world. I was realizing that there were things outside of my bubble that mattered so much more. I wanted my teammates to feel that as well. So every team I played \on after that, whenever we were in DC playing the Wizards, I would ask our coach if we had time to go through the museum. Every visit was different, but each guy came out thanking me to taking us there.”(3) Even for an NBA player, the Holocaust changed his perspective in life. He brought his teammates and his opponents, and all of them always came out of the museum thanking him for taking
Elie was changed forever because for starters he had to go through being sent to a concentration camp, being starved, and made to work nonstop. After having to do all of that, he saw that people didn’t want revenge; they just wanted to enjoy what they had and were given. In addition, Ray Allen is another of those people that were changed by seeing and learning about the horrors of the Holocaust. In the article that he wrote, Why I Went to Auschitz, he says, “ Honestly… it made me feel sort of irrelevant. Which was a strange thought to have as a young NBA player who was supposed to be on top of the world. I was realizing that there were things outside of my bubble that mattered so much more. I wanted my teammates to feel that as well. So every team I played \on after that, whenever we were in DC playing the Wizards, I would ask our coach if we had time to go through the museum. Every visit was different, but each guy came out thanking me to taking us there.”(3) Even for an NBA player, the Holocaust changed his perspective in life. He brought his teammates and his opponents, and all of them always came out of the museum thanking him for taking